What and Why RI: It's filled in now, but in its prime Rocky Point pool hosted Olympians. Here's the story. A Rhode Island Red chicken — the official state bird — roams a backyard in Middletown.

Even chicken wire can be a bad choice, as many animals can chew through it, according to Caroline Porter, who keeps a flock of chickens and has a degree in animal science from the University of ...

In the afternoon, he scatters a scoop of cracked corn for the flock of Black Sex-linked, barred rock, Araucana and Rhode Island Red chickens so they will have some feed to scratch around their ...