Hello. I encountered something very odd and disturbing last night. I have 4 hens enclosed in a chicken run in my backyard. They were all raised as chicks from a hatchery and are just over two years old. One of them is a barred rock and was laying well her first year, but since last autumn has...
We have two chickens and don't know the breeds of either- one's black and the other is red. The black one seems normal (though we don't really know what normal chicken behavior is). She makes nice cooing and clucking sounds, is inquisitive, and lays an egg every day with an accompanying cackle...