Posts by Aeropennchick

Yeah your red looks mixed for sure - but don't worry, she will most likely lay better than a heritage, though not for as many years.  My red mixes are the friendliest of my bunch, they will jump in your lap. :)

  We used a bannister rail for our trailer chicken coop - here is a photo of it under construction

 

Thanks so much for all the input guys!

She looks like my reds and I have personally seen eggs drop out of their butts.  Don't worry!      Here's one of my girls:    

I hope so!!  When I got these chicks and people said, you may not know until it lays an egg or crows, I thought they were exaggerating.  Boy was I wrong!

HELP!!  I think Henrietta has suddenly turned into a Henry. So Henrietta feathered in slower than her sister, Frannie, but both chickens have looked exactly the same for months.  Here is one of Henrietta a month ago - no...

Just picked up my girls from the post office - great job on the shipping by Meyer Hatchery.  I think I have identified them all.  Please correct me if you think I've got something mixed up!  All should be...

The three acres or so we use as a back yard has very few trees in it, and the girls spend most of their time in the sun just beside the tree line.  We haven't been able to mow for the last week due to thunderstorms - I guess...

My hens are around four months old and have been free ranging in our yard during the day time.  I noticed that several of them have been hosting some hitchhikers - little deer ticks - right around their eye...