The lifespan of a ruddy chicken is about 2 years.

The ruddy chicken is a crossbreed and is available in primary, chestnut and pure white colors, with males measuring 11-13 cm in length and females a little longer, between 12-16 cm. It is significantly smaller in size, so be sure to use smaller pellets for feeding, and chop vegetables, while keeping the cage dry.

Lutin chickens are adult chickens when they are raised for one and a half to two months. Lutin chicks start laying eggs in about 50 days of breeding. Lutein chickens breed from June to August. They lay 4-8 eggs per clutch, which are 22.9-27.7 x 17.3-20.4 mm in size. The color of the eggs is pale olive-brown or yellowish, and some of them have fine and sparse dark spots. The annual egg production is up to 300 eggs or more in case of artificial breeding, and the incubation period is 16 days.

Artificial breeding of ruddy chickens, brooding temperature of 35 ℃ at 1 day of age, 2 weeks of age down to 29 ℃, 4-5 weeks of age and then down to room temperature. The floor of the cage should be kept dry, and the mesh around it should be less than 1.9 centimeters, so as to prevent escape as well as to prevent sparrows and other birds from flying into the cage to feed. The feed needs to be small enough, and green feed such as vegetables should be chopped up.

How to Raise Ruddy Chickens at Home

Reasonable Feeding: When raising ruddy chickens at home, you also need to provide the chickens with reasonable food. Generally, you can provide some high-protein food such as animal offal, earthworms or breadworms, and also some high-energy food such as wheat, corn kernels, bran or rice bran for the ruddy chickens.

Regular cleaning: when raising ruddy chickens at home, in order to make the chickens can grow healthily, you also need to clean the environment where the chickens are growing regularly, usually you need to change the straw in the coop every other day for the chickens when raising them indoors, and you need to clean the farm site every other day for the chickens when raising them outdoors.