Category: rhode island red

Soooo…Henrietta has the crooked leg which we’ve mentioned has not kept her/him down at all~! This past two weeks brought major redness out in his comb/wattles – that, the cock-a-doodle-doo’ing and the mounting of hens for chicken/rooster happy time has confirmed. Indeed. Henrietta is a boy. #2 in the Rooster…

Okay, she does look the most likely to be voted a roo…she’s also the one with the crooked leg, but that doesn’t hold her back one bit!

Henrietta has gotten extra attention since a week or so old. We noticed she walked a bit funny, and had a crooked leg (splayed leg?) or just a twisted leg injury? We did attempt the rubber band straightening, but didn’t like having to wrap her leg with something (she was…

Red was pretty interested in the raspberries, and posed for some great close ups at the same time!

Melba the cuckoo maran rooster, tops the scale of our chicken flock weighing in at 3# .9 ounces. Compare that to Ebitz at a 1# .3oz, and Little big Bird at 2.0 ounces, and Tiny, our tiniest bantam weighing .7 ounces (smaller than a 1 ounce silver coin). That’s pretty…

These chicks are so adolescent! At four weeks old they are sprouting feathers everywhere and look like they just rolled out of bed late for school. About the Rhode Island Red Breed Rhode Island may be America’s smallest state but the breed developed there in the late 1800s made huge…

One of our chicks, Henrietta, showed some signs of a crooked leg. We attempted a rubber band fix we found online, but after a day of tolerating the bands, we took it off to find she can get around just fine. She’s easy to spot though, since she has a…

Red is a Rhode Island Red – the feathering on these ladies are developing unique patterns. They do change quite a bit, so not sure we’re going to know who is who – the reddest of them all shall be known as Red It helps when taking photos of this…