Our Rhode Island Red Chickens

The Rhode Island Red Chicken is regarded as the best, most dependable, and most profitable layer of high quality brown eggs. As the name suggests, the breed was developed in the state of Rhode Island in the early 20^th century. Most “backyard farmers” start their flock with a mixture of these great brown egg layers, with the best over-all white egg layer, the White Leg Horn, also known as the Pearl White Leghorn.

The hens start to lay at about 5 months, and will start producing small to medium sized eggs, followed by nice large and extra large eggs. Our fresh eggs have large orange-yellow yolks than sit high over the whites when cracked, which demonstrates a high protein content.

We feed a nice layer-mix feed to our chickens made from corn and soy beans. We do not use hormones or antibiotics on our chickens and only add wormer to their water as needed. Our chickens our housed in our barn, but three seasons of the year, in temperate weather, they are allowed to free range our farm eating grass, seeds, and insects.

We’ve owned and raised many other large or heavy breed chickens in the past but for great medium to dark brown eggs, the Rhode Island Red is our favorite.

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