It was interesting to read your post because looking at these reds, we thought we were given 4 roosters and wondered what the heck ourselves. Next day we had two eggs so obviously, we need to educate ourselves on identifying marks of rhode island reds. We bought 10 straight run rhode island...
Thanks for all the suggestions. We've only had them since Tuesday and ran out of pellets the same day. I didn't think having scratch for only two days until I could get more would be that big of a deal but maybe it is/was. My husband said the egg he gathered this morning was just sitting on...
Hi, we just acquired four fully grown Rhode Island Reds and are having a similar problem. Unfortunately, the person we got them from had been giving them eggshells as a treat and when I didn't get to one of the newly laid eggs fast enough, I witnessed the poor thing, i.e. the just laid egg, be...