This breed was the first breed I ever became acquainted with, and first impressions are important. Luckily, it was a very good first impression. These birds are well-known for their beautiful light teal eggs, which with the bird's age, get larger in diameter, peaking at about two years of age...
Thanks for the know, but I checked her poop several times and saw nothing. However, she now seems to have gotten over whatever issue she was having because now she's eating with gusto again, though she isn't laying eggs. We thought she was going to die that last day she was doing really bad, too...
My Rhode Island red chicken is extremely emaciated, to the point where she literally has no breast muscle and her hips jut out, despite the fact that the chickens are provided with food twice a day. She just stays inside the coop all day and doesn't seem to eat at all, except maybe an occasional...
Hello, I'm Nikk. I'm 21 years old, and am currently raising with my family, about 60 Rhode Island Reds, ten Arucanas, one Java, one Cuckoo Maran, one Silver-Spangled Hamburg and a lot of random hybrids. I didn't think much of chickens when we first got our nine Arucanas, but somehow, the little...