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I have a Production Red rooster who is right around a year and a half old and I noticed today that he is molting badly. It's October in Northern NY and getting quite cold. Doesn't it seem odd that he would molt now that it is colder and he won't have the feathers to protect him? Is this normal?

After a horrible raccoon attack last fall, I am left with only a huge Production Red roo and a Golden Sebright Bantam hen. She has laid 9 perfect eggs. Is it at all possible that the roo was able to fertilize them?

I was thinking about further spoiling my flock and planting some goodies where they can get at them. What's good?

I run a rescue and a colleague of my hubby's dropped off a mallard with an injured foot the other night. She's a sweet thing. She made a nest in a bag of shredded paper today.

Photos taken between 2 and 6 days of age... The Mille Fleur chick in the background had just taken a dip in the water dish, she's soaked!! Salmon Faverolle cockerel: Self Blue D'uccle chick, named Cordon: Black Langshan pullet, named Cajun: Self Blue D'uccle and Blue Mille Fleur...

I have a guess but I'm interested to hear for sure! They are full-sized chickens, not bantys, even tho you may notice some bantam chicks in the background. Smooth-legged.

This will be my first winter with chickens and I live in frosty Upstate NY. I can't imagine any amount of sealing out drafts or added pine shavings will proected my peepers without some other form of heat. What do you use to heat your coop? My husband was planning on securing heat lamps...

I'm looking for any feather-legged chickens.