Hi fellow chicken peeps,
I have a small flock of six hens--three, 17-month-old Road Island Reds, a 17-month-old Americana, and two six-month-old Americanas. The older girls started laying last summer and laid fine until mid-winter, then petered out for a while and started laying more...
I was given 2 Red Star pullets about 4 years ago. So I had also just gotten 2 other youngsters, 1 Barred Rock Rooster, 1 Barred Rock Hen and the 2 "Redheads" I named Ginger & Lucy. All 4 were pretty close in age, they got along well and my handsome Roo was such a gentleman, always giving the...