My son and I are working on a new home for our girls - at present we only have a RIR and a barred rock but I plan on more once the spacious new digs are complete. Right now they are living in a converted rabbit hutch which is not the best situation .
This is what we started out with: it was...
I have learned so much from reading BYC that I thought I'd finally join! My name is Barb, married 23 years to Tim, we have a 19 YO daughter and a 16 YO son. We live on 3 acres in east central Missouri, having moved from "the city" 7 years ago. The kids got involved in 4H, and in 2010 said...
She doesn't eat or drink any more than normal, and does sleep on the roost. I'm in Missouri, where we have had drought and lots of 100-degree temps this summer, although now we are down into the low 90s and getting a lot of rain. Her feathers don't look that great in some other spots, if you...
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I'm fairly new at raising chickens (actually, this is my first post ) and so I am not sure what's going on with my RIR. She's about a year old, and she has always been rather misshapen in the front; the breast area has always been enlarged like this. It is loose and can be moved around...