Animal of the Month

June: Rhode Island Red Hen

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Hello! I'm a Rhode Island Red hen. Most of the other animals living at the Museum are mammals, but not me. I'm a bird, so instead of hair or wool covering my body like mammals, I have feathers. My babies, called chicks, hatch from eggs that I lay and keep warm by sitting on them. And unlike baby mammals, baby chicks do not drink milk, because birds don't produce milk. My chicks start eating solid food, a cereal mix, shortly after they hatch. But even though like all birds I have wings, I’m not able to fly very far.

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