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I have a 9mo old Rhode Island Red rooster and a 8mo Silver Leghorn rooster. They are great boys with the hens making sure to offer bugs they find to the girls, but they are not so great with my young kids. The Silver Leghorn is better about staying away from the kids and myself but he has it out...

I have a 9mo old Rhode Island Red rooster and a 8mo Silver Leghorn rooster. They are great boys with the hens making sure to offer bugs they find to the girls, but they are not so great with my young kids. The Silver Leghorn is better about staying away from the kids and myself but he has it out...

I have a 9mo old Rhode Island Red rooster and a 8mo Silver Leghorn rooster. They are great boys with the hens making sure to offer bugs they find to the girls, but they are not so great with my young kids. The Silver Leghorn is better about staying away from the kids and myself but he has it out...

I’ll give it a few more weeks to make sure, but it looks like we’ll be needing to try to rehome 3 of the 4. One seems quite attached to me so I’ll keep him around. My other chicks are all Black Australorp pullets. Not sure what that cross would look like.

Thanks for looking!

I have some 4 week old Rhode Island Red chicks that I got from Tractor Supply. They’re from a Straight Run and the guy did he best to get 4 that “looked most” like pullets. We knew there was a chance for males, but I was hoping I’d be lucky enough to not get all 4 males. I’d appreciate any guesses.

Here are my chickens. The RIR combs look all about the same to me and are pretty pink. They’re 4 weeks old and a few days. I’ll post over in the gender/breed questions thread as well.

Thanks, I need to take some more recent pictures, then I'll post them.

My husband and I live in the Texas Hill Country between San Antonio and Austin. We have 2 children (1.5yr and 4yr) with another on the way. This is our first year raising any kind of bird/poultry. My grandfather grew up raising all kinds of birds (chickens, guinees, turkeys, ducks), and he's...