I ordered 6 RIR hatching eggs for my incubator but when 3 chicks hatched I knew they were definitely not RIRs. As they grew I saw they had beards and ear tufts and bright orange legs. So I checked out my chicken books and discovered they were Russian Orloffs. Knowing how rare they are, I was...
All of our 40+ chickens have names. If several look alike and I can't tell them apart they get the same name. Some of them actually know their names and come when I call them.
Hi Everybody. I'm new at this but here I go. I am from Atlanta and live there for 4-5 months of the year. We can't have chickens where we live but the rest of the year we live in a remote, rural place where we can have as many birds as we want. That is the Isle of Mull off the west coast of...