Reviews by newmarch2014

I have a rooster and a hen in my mixed flock of 8 chickens, they get along with everyone fine. I should rehome the rooster since he is too big for most of my hens so he tears their backs up with his clumsy huge feet but he is just too sweet to let him be stew. The rooster is good with the hens (aside from his bulk) and is good about taking care of them. He limits his crowing mostly to before 8am and again at 5 ish for the bulk of his sessions and only occasionally throws single crows in ever few hours throughout the day. He is never aggressive with me and actually is more afraid of me than anything.
Both the hen and rooster are easy to catch which is helpful and once caught the rooster is calm enough to be doctored or healthchecked easily(he stands between my feet and lets me do what needs done) but neither of them are what I consider especiallydocile, they are more wary and the hen is the only one from my flock that has pecked me when she wasn't broody. The hen is near the top of the pecking order but not a terror. She lays a smallish dark brown egg finally after 9 1/2 months. They handled our high desert heat this summer pretty well but are much more comfortable in the Northern Utah winter than a lot of my others. Their amazing fluffy feathering keeps them warm and everyone wants to snuggle with them in the coop at night.
We have a big sturdy coop that can house much more than my 8 chickens and large run so they fit great but if you have a premade coop and typical suburban back yard run I feel there would not be enough room for them to be comfortable.

My production reds were 1/2 the birds in my very first flock raised from chicks. They tolerate their Buff Orp. flock mates just fine but it took an agonizingly long time for them to let the next years chicks in without trying to kill them, even though one was a Brahma rooster that was as big as them (he was the focus of most of their lethal hate) and I kept them separate but visually accessible for 6 weeks before trying to meld them. Ali runs her coop with an iron beak and will tolerate no disrespect. They were handled a lot as chicks and are neither friendly nor skittish with humans and they tolerate my chicken safe dog really well. They tolerate their health checks fine and Ali had to have double bumblefoot surgery recently, she was calm and accepting through the entire process. They have been strong and healthy birds that are only occasionally loud. They take treats out of our hands gently and readily. I would certainly own more but only if I had 2 coops so they never have to have new mixed breeds blended in with them since they are seriously vicious with interlopers.