Rhode Island Reds are an all time favourite breed of most poultry fanciers. Rhode Island Reds are another versetile breed, having a high egg count, and good body weight for meat production. The RIR should be active and alert, with deep glossy red feathering. The RIR origionated from North America. There is also a much rarer form being the Rhode Island White and in more recent years they have devoloped some rose combed RIR insetead of the origional straight combs.
Rhode Island Reds are a large breed, bantam also in existance, weighing between 3 and 4 kgs. RIR are a hard breed. Oftenlaying in excess of 200 large brown eggs. Many commerical layers have RIR in thier breeding.
RIR are useful for crossing into your own backyard flock, enabling better egg production and some very interesting colouring.
Pros and Cons of Rhode Island Reds
| PROS |
CONS |
| Good
layers of large eggs. |
Very
large breed, not ideal for small children as pets. |
| DO
go broody. |
|
| Good
for backyard flock crossing |
|
| Hardy
breed, good meat value |
Price and Availability of Rhode Iland Reds
| AGE |
PRICE |
AVAILABILITY |
| Day
old to 2 weeks UNSEXED |
$8.00 |
Most
of the year |
| 3
weeks to 5 weeks UNSEXED |
$10.00 |
Most of the year |
| 6-8
weeks old SEXED Best time to buy |
$15.00 |
Most
of the year |
Photos of Rhode Island Reds
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Rhode Island Red Cockeral
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Rhode Island Red Hen
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Rhose Island Red Trio
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