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Welcome Kaseyx73. I hope we can all learn together here. I agree your dark rooster looks like a type of production red, he does seem to have a bit shorter back than mine and a larger comb. The more orange one I would guess is a cross of some kind. I'm a newbie at the genitics stuff so maybe one...

Thanks. I'm lucky enough to have plenty of land and space to breed more than one kind, so I'll keep these and start next year with a new strain of more heritage type birds.

I've decided to keep them anyway, I'll try and get a start on some more "heritage" birds in the spring, but I'll always have these I think. They aren't laying much right now, but when they start back I'll give you all the eggs you want. I did get the wrong weight though (Note I changed it...

I've been following several of the Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island Red versus New Hampshire threads on BYC and have come to conclusion that it is possible that these have had other breeds breed in over the years. Some of the other threads mentioned early strains having brown leghorns breed...

Thanks Bob. They do lay great and are meaty as that is what I always breed for. I have noticed that the smaller hens outlay their larger sisters though.

Now first off I realize he's not up to standard. Until a couple of years ago I'd never even heard of a standard of perfection and although I've had this strain for many years I've always just breed them towards what I was looking for in a chicken. (Sorry, I didn't know any better) As I have a...