Hi Callender Girl, Good to meet you too! We were given the chickens as a gift. It was just confirmed that the Rhode Island Red is a rooster. It's not been annoying the hens, but we can't keep it in our city, unfortunately. We're in southwest Iowa. I have tried looking for places take...
I would love them to continue to run around when it gets cold. We have a lot of bushes and trees they can go under. But we have seen a Cooper's hawk in / flying over our backyard a couple of times - mostly during the cold weather. We have a run for them, but we are thinking of making a longer...
Hi!
I'm a new member.
I'm a new chicken owner - never done it before.
We now have five hens that are about 3.5 months old - one of them is a Buff Orpington and a Rhode Island Red (we think is a rooster).
We're letting them run around in the yard until it gets colder. They have a chicken...