I do find mine to be one of my friendlier girls! I emailed Hoover’s some photos and got the below response.
We do have different strains of the Barred Rocks. This is one of our commercial strains . They do have a variance in coloring at times.
Ventilation is good, when I wrapped the run, I did not make it air tight, there's a gap above the door and all around the top so lots of airflow. the sides aren't perfectly air tight either, the plastic is more of a wind block then making it air tight.
On the Coop I just wrapped the "run"...
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First winter with chickens - I have my chickens in the Gambrel Roof Coop from MyPetChicken, Their run and the run under it is covered in green house plastic as a windblock this winter. Its supposed to drop down to the single digits this weekend at night - should I put a blanket or...
Got this lady from TSC, and she is supposed to be a barred rock, was black with a white dot as chick, but looks nothing like my neighbors. She is 17/18 weeks old. ,
Any thoughts?