Thank you RockerHen & Keesmom....I hope you're right! Sorry, Davea.....I think we both learned maybe we should take a chicken expert with us to TSC or go to a hatchery? lol! Best of luck to you! My kids have been bugging me to post about this, but I've literally been afraid to ask!
Now I'll...
They ARE growing fast, but don't seem to have the wattle....I REALLY need them to be RED PRODUCTION HENS....I got them for eggs...there are 8 of us in the house and we go thru SO many, so my "logic" was that they'd be great for the kids to learn about animals (as if 5 dogs, a turtle, loads of...
Bought these cute chicks at TSC (Ohio) from the Production Red pullets bin...now 5 weeks old & are lighter than when they were tiny (they were cute little yellow chicks when they came home - only 4 days old -- or so they said)! Please tell me it's just a phase and I don't have a bunch of up &...