I have a RIR that has been doing this all afternoon. She looks fine but is just walking around and 2 other hens started to fight her but the rooster stepped in and danced around the two non growling hens, protecting the RIR. I definitely think she does not like something as someone already said.
I live in TN and recently we have had temps of 0-19 degrees at night. The chickens I have now do stay in a chicken house but it isn't tight and while I do add extra hay on the floor and laying boxes they do not seem to be affected by the cold too much. I fight the water situation and have to...
I have had chickens roost during the summer along a fence and then refuse to move when the weather grew cold. They would not go into the chicken houses-there were two and had room to spare-but those dummies would roost on the fence even in ice storms.
Weather never seemed to plague them.