Recent content by RedBaronFarm

I’ll start off with the usual disclaimer; that we know very little about chickens and have learned everything about them from this site (thanks!). With that said, we are just getting started with our second round of incubating eggs. The first round didn’t go so well with having a power outage on...

Thanks for your help everyone. They were given to me for free so I dont expect much from the look, but they are fun and the hen lays delicious eggs.

I posted a while ago trying to determine the gender of my chickens, but now that they are bigger I was curious about what the gender is. I am confused between the RIR and the 'American Game' breeds. I was told they were the American Game, but everything I look at they look like RIR breed. I...

Wow, thanks everyone for your support and feedback. This community is already helping me out so much. I have separated them from now (they were getting very fighty in a tight space. I am working on getting some more hens for them. It was just a surprise to find out when I thought I had 3 hens...

The run is 8'x6' completely enclosed and the coop is 6'x6'. They are go in and out of the coop and run freely, but are always enclosed (we have some nasty vultures around I am trying to get rid of. The coop was originally made on the smaller size because we were only expecting hens. Looks like...

I kid you not, when I went to take some new photos the front one (formerly Princess Laya, now Cluck Norris) strode right up to me and crowed right in my face. It was quite amusing since he had never done that before. Follow-up question then, they are in a smaller coop I made 55 sqft run and a...

So I am a new chicken owner and was gifted three chickens and was assured they were hens. Well, fast forward 6 months and I think I have 2 Roosters and a hen. I am very new to chickens, but one grew very quickly and has quite the comb. I am pretty sure he is a male, but I'm curious about the...