The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site - Page 8

Here's the link on Rhode Island Reds



http://books.google.com/books?id=QDNDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_slider_thumb#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a old tonic I thought I would put in here just for fun.

CHARLES HENRY HUBBARD, ©1915

I will now give you one of the best secrets I have. You will find this one of the best tonics and feather growers known. It is made in the following manner: Take five pounds of French Poultry Mustard and three pounds of sulfur. Mix thoroughly together by hand. Now take one tablespoonful of sulfate of iron, and dissolve it in a little water. When dissolved add it to one gallon of molasses and mix well together. Then pour the gallon of molasses over the sulfur and mustard, and mix all thoroughly with your hands to a thick paste. When this is done put into an earthen jar that has a cover. Keep the cover on at all times to keep the dust out. The above amount will last a breeder a long time as it will not spoil. The tonic should be fed in a mash to growing chickens after they are three months old. It does not make any difference what you use to wet your mash, whether it is water and liver, or clear water or milk. Dissolve one tablespoonful of the tonic in three quarts of the liquid you use to wet your mash. This should be fed in their mash for three days and then skip three days, until you have fed it nine days in each month. Start to feed it the first of each month, and after you have fed it in their mash nine days, as described above, for the rest of each month use in their wet mash one heaping tablespoonful of flax seed (not the meal), to every twelve growing chickens. There is nothing known that will beat this secret for growing length of feather, and putting on the high sheen which is wanted so much in the show room. Use the same method for molting out your old stock. They will put on their new feathers in a much shorter time and their plumage will be in the best possible condition. I have never seen anything to equal it for keeping young and old stock in prime condition.

Chris

Chris,  I have never heard of those ingredients before. I wouldn't have a clue as to what it is, and where to get the stuff.

I'm a bit confused with the brick body shape.  I can see it at times, just trying to get some clarity.  I need a ratio or a proportion......lets say the length is a 10, then is the height an 8?  Or a 9?  And then how wide across the breast should a good heritage RIR be?  Now that I've seen some really good birds I totally see the attraction.

I posted this some pages back but here you go..






Chris

thanks thats what i needed to know... ill just cull hard and hatch bunches and keep alot of roosters just incase...

Just remember that the Rooster is the one that controls how good the offspring's comb is going to be.
Keep only Roosters with good combs..

Chris

will do thanks

ok another ??? anyone have a good pic of the comb on a RCRIR from the side and from the top???    that would help me chose what roo's to keep... thanks Elias

This what you are looking for (but with about 1/2 the spike)-


Chris