I got a couple of 7 week old chicks yesterday afternoon and I noticed that while they were eating fine, they were not drinking. I figured that the change in waterer was the reason and that they would figure it out. By this morning I became alarmed.
Asked the seller and she said it was a...
My family had about a dozen RIR when I was a teenager and don't recall molting being much of a big deal. They did it for a couple of months, egg production maintained about 7 eggs a day and all was well. They took turns molting.
40 years later, I have 3 chickens again, but these came with the...