teaton
Songster
Hi everyone! I'm excited to be a part of your website after reading forums for years on here! Now I finally have a question of my own lol I started raising chickens a year ago its my first time and boy have I learned a lot! I bought a rooster and 4 hens they were 3 months old within the first 6 months I had a chicken hawk devour 3 of my 4 hens, that's when I covered their run! so Ive had the rooster and hen pair since then with no problems until I had a possum break the chicken wire and rip out my hens throat! Amazingly she decided she wanted to live and after 5 days of watching her fight on her own I decided to take her to the vet and she is recovering after having crop surgery a week ago in my closet lol. Needless to say we decided to also rewire the run with 12.5 G welded wire! Anywho that leaves me to where we are now, since she was my only hen and we were use to getting eggs everyday, I decided while she was down to buy 2 other rhode island red hens. I found some on craigslist locally, when I went to purchase them they were in a box, I simply peeked in saw their coloring and bought them. Well... after I got home and opened the box I knew right away something wasn't quite right, the coloring is about right but the don't really have tail feathers, they were born in Sept. 2015 so they should, or atleast mine did by then, but after scowering the internet I cant find anything that even looks close to them so I'm hoping yall can help! the one looking at the camera is the front view and if you look behind her you will see the rear of the other one and what I'm talking about.