The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site - Page 175

If you buy birds get some card board boxes cut some holes in them for air and make sure they have enough room to sit for the trip home.

When you get there if you show bring some plastic cups to feed your birds as they do not feed or water your birds. If you dont have none you can look at what people have and then go down town to the grocery store and buy the plastic drinking cups.

Just dont worry about it as its a learning experience and take a camera to take pictures.

We will have a nice show the first weekend of Dec in Pensacola Fla at the Fairgrounds. Some of the best fowl will be there from the south.

bob

Looking in my computer for some pictures for a article I wrote for the Rhode Island Red Club of England and found these lost pictures in a file and are posting them for the lady that wanted to see what my R I Red Bantams looked like a few years ago befor they got smaller.

The upper pictures are the new bantams after I shrunk down the bantams from large fowl for 25 years. The male in this bottom picture was a runt male I used in the cross 28 years ago crossed onto some Red Bantam females from Lee Roy Jones of Ky.

For you who dont know this is the first time anyone has crossed large fowl onto a red bantam to filter out the Cochin and Old English games that where used to make the Red bantam in the 1930s by Perrine Johnson.

Anyone who would like a copy of the article send me a Private message and I will forward it to your email address.

By the way the male on the bottom picture was from Mr. E W Reese two years out from getting to the point where I found the old Mohawk V genes to start my new strain of large fowl called the Mohawks.

Have a great day and my dear lady I forgot your name here is the pictures you asked for. bob

I ve said this befor and will again. Good breeders dont sell eggs like they do on this web site. The chance of these eggs hatching are remote. If you have some barn yard scrubs maybe the hatches are better. There are only a hand full of good heritage breeders. Their chickens are getting ready for fall and winter shows. They will have their breeding pens ready in Jan or Feb.

Now what we need is a person who has some good stock have twenty females in a pen with three males to supply people like you then if you get a few you will be happy. This is how the hatcheries do it. Flock matting.

I am afraid you will have to wait till Jan or Feb and then wait for someone to come along to help you.

I do not know any good breeder who has any chickens in a breeding pen this time of year.

I am a breeder of Rhode Island Red bantams. My males are in single pens waiting for the breeding season which in bantams is march to mid April. If I still had my large fowl I would have them also in 4x4 foot pens and they would go into the breeding pen around Thanksgiving, turn the lights on and hope to get fertility by February.

I hope this helps but asking for eggs this time of year you are going to get cherry eggers or production birds.

Buy the way what kind of incubator did you get?

What model number is it?

Does it hold humidity well?

bob

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Shipping eggs is dicey all the way around.  Buying a pair or trio at one of the shows being held now might prove to be a better bet.  Then, you could hatch your own eggs.  A thought anyhow.

 

I would love to go this route however I have yet to see any non production strains in my area. Do you guys know anyone in NC or southern VA who would have a trio I could buy?

There is a fellow in North Carloina who has Large Fowl Reds. He got 50 chicks from Bill Bennett about two years ago. Does anyone remember his name on this site. I lost place with him.

Also, there is a fellow in the same region that is Dist Director of the Rhode Island Red club Dist 3. He may have some and or know who has some. I am sure in a week or two I could find you a good breeding trio. bob