I have a pair of Rhode Island Reds. They are about two years old. For the past couple of years, on the coldest nights I have on a heat lamp outside of the roost. This year I decided to close up of the coop on the coldest nights. Once I started doing that near the end of December, they stopped...
One of our two hens died suddenly. Anyone in the DC metro area have a solid laying hen for immediate sale. I think we had something called a Golden Comet. Something similar preferred. Thx.
We live in suburban Washington DC. We got a coop. And we pretty much let our two hens have free run of our fenced in yard. At night or when we would be away for extended stretches of time, we closed the hens in the coop. But whenever we were home during the day, they could roam and have fun...