The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

3rd Time Reading through this tread in the last 2 years. All I can say is Bob was right regardless of the whys and what fors. There’s a hell of a lot of Here Today Gone Tomorrow “Breeders” Don’t get me wrong I see a few still breeding and showing, But then I see people that got started with very good birds and “breed” or propagated for many years and out cross every year when they had all the tools right infront of them with the right birds and people willing and able to mentor them and they just didn’t get any good birds except for the 1st breeding then didn’t follow along with true line breeding. It’s a shame
 
But then I see people that got started with very good birds and “breed” or propagated for many years and out cross every year when they had all the tools right in front of them with the right birds and people willing and able to mentor them and they just didn’t get any good birds except for the 1st breeding then didn’t follow along with true line breeding. It’s a shame
A well-known Leghorn breeder and poultry judge, Mr.Richard Holmes, used to tell a story about a master breeder of White Leghorns who in his early years hired an older poultry judge to come and cull his flock. The old judge locked himself in the poultry house and started catching and killing Leghorns. The story goes that the discards came fast and heavy. When the judge was finished the breeder had only one trio left out of 150 birds. The breeder later commented that from that day forward he made progress!

-quote from The Livestock Conservancy
 
Cull hard obviously is the moral of the story. It’s true though. I definitely won’t be hatching chicks. I might put an order in kids want a few Sultans again, out of the breeds they were super friendly, but my gosh predator attractors… they will have to be penned every Top Hat gets killed, just lost a Polish we had to a predator. Of course having every coop crushed in last big storm doesn’t help, in the middle of clean up and rebuild, while working and doing a ton of other things. We have one pen rebuilt, now just getting the hens used to going in and out for food on their own. We put roosts in it. I would prefer not to have to hunt down each hen but rather trick them into all going in an shutting the door.

I wish Cackle carried SOPish (Rosecomb) RIW. Thinking of ordering the SQ RIR from them along with a few Sultans.
 

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