Red hen - what breed?

[CrazyChickLady7]

Yay!!!

 

[lilmiz]

Thank You for the Information on the differences. I am all new to this chicken stuff I wasn't raised around them i remember my grandma and grandpa butchering them but we were never allowed to play with them. I went into this blind and I got my first chick In March. I went to the home and farm place and picked 2 of what they had then wrote the names down and researched them all to learn about them. We got them to free range. I just went by the pictures and most the time I'm guessing what kind they are by the names and pictures the store gave me. I love to learn all the new things about them and I must not being doing to bad they all seem to be doing happy and love attention.

 

[lilmiz]

 

[Michael OShay]

Thank You for the Information on the differences. I am all new to this chicken stuff I wasn't raised around them i remember my grandma and grandpa butchering them but we were never allowed to play with them. I went into this blind and I got my first chick In March. I went to the home and farm place and picked 2 of what they had then wrote the names down and researched them all to learn about them. We got them to free range. I just went by the pictures and most the time I'm guessing what kind they are by the names and pictures the store gave me. I love to learn all the new things about them and I must not being doing to bad they all seem to be doing happy and love attention.

You're welcome.

 

[smudge]

Good news and bad news...

Good news: Hilda started to improve, looking much less bedraggled.

Hilda in August:



Hilda in September:

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

That's good! What's bad?

 

[smudge]

Bad news... she died yesterday after a rapid decline beginning with a cold spell earlier this week.

She'd been living inside in a laundry basket since Tuesday, and we were resigning ourselves to potentially having a house hen for the winter. I suspect that she had kidney/liver problems (bloated) and other intestinal issues. I spent her last day carrying her around, as she could no longer stand on her own.

We were never able to integrate her into our flock, although during the last month she'd been spending the night with the others. She gave them a long lecture from the roost her first night!

There were 2 girls who we could put in her run with her during the day without worry.

I don't know if being so lonely was a factor.

 

[smudge]

I guess she at least had one last good summer.

And she wasn't mauled to death by a predator.

She would jump into her hutch every evening after having her run around time. It was so cute! She wouldn't wander far - just to her own run or to visit our rabbits. Well, to see what fell under the rabbits' hutch.

 

[drumstick diva]

How sad but, you gave her a nice summer she wouldn't have had otherwise.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

How sad but, you gave her a nice summer she wouldn't have had otherwise.  

I agree.