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My experiment with freedom rangers as laying hens did not end well. Only one of the five is still alive. Above I described the first death. The second happened about a month or so later but I did not do a necropsy. The third happened at about 13 months and was a rather large/fat bird, but...

Update on Freedom Rangers as laying hens, 6 months in to laying. The Freedom Rangers are doing fairly well. One of the five did die at about 9.5 months of age. I did a necropsy and found a lot of hardened egg yolk like substance (resembled boiled egg yolks) inside her body. I think it was...

My husband and I ordered a batch of freedom ranger chicks (26 last fall) as broilers, and decided to keep five of the females as laying hens. I'm impressed so far and wanted to share that info because I've seen a few folks on BYC asking about freedom rangers (or red rangers) as dual purpose...