thank you... they are mouth breathing and it has been unusually hot here in Texas. I have a fan in the shade under the house and one inside the house.. so I guess that is why... It just happened suddenly and they had spent the worst of the weeks panting outside so it was weird to see them inside...
My chicks have been outside in their new coop for about 4 weeks. I have cameras in the hen house and the run so I can check in on them periodically.. We have had 100 degree plus days and they have stayed in the shade under the elevated hen house.
This week for some reason... actually the past...
I just got pecked in the eye today... it hurts so bad. I was raking the coop and bending over to pick up the debris and as I bent down one of my RIR's jumped up and pecked me right in the white of my eye.... OMG... I was so surprised... now I have a bloody white of my eye that the doctor said...