Today we were at my son's school and for the first time in my life I saw a 8 month old Rhode Island Red Hen!! She was beautiful. We have RIR's I thought or was told when we brought them that they were all pullets ,well now that I saw what a real Hen looks like I now know I have 5 Roosters...
Sunday I brought a cooling system for the chicken run,( at Ace hardware for 23.99 ) it runs off the water hose and lets out a mist , I think they like it, I saw one of them standing close to it and getting a nice cold breeze, she seems to like it , it was 92 today and hot . I also put ice in...
I'm new to raising chickens, I brought them March 1st and we have 6 Rhode Island Reds I first found out about BackYardCkickens.com when I googled Chickens, and I wanted to know about them and which one was right for what we wanted and my husband said the Rhode Island Reds were nice birds he and...