DON'T BUY these chickens!! I've been raising chickens off and on my whole life I have NEVER seen a variety so violent and flighty in my life. We got 44 of them Easter weekend. All they want to do is eat. Almost as bad as cornish crosses. They will stampede the feeder and crawl all over each other to get at it even with plenty of feeder space for all. After the ones we got were about a month old, their behavior at the feeder has caused feathers to be pulled out of the base of the tails. If one starts to bleed just a little at this area, in less than 30 minutes that chicken is dead and its inards eaten out. They are the pitbulls of the chicken world. Even with our best efforts as of today there are 20 of the original 44 left. To make matters worse, we had 6 americanas that were a week older than these in with them. No problems until today. At the 9 am feeding, everything was fine. At the 4 pm feeding, three americanas were dead and half eaten, a fourth was alive but had the meat eaten off its back to the backbone (there were four of these piranas eating on it when I walked up), and the other two had feathers missing. If I'd been half an hour later they would have killed them all. If I would have had access to my .410 shotgun, we wouldn't have any more tetra tints. Those americanas were my 12-year-old's pets!
