Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[Chris09]

Yup cmom has some that they got from a breeder in Florida I think.
Theirs are more lanky, upright and Leghorn type.

Chris

 

[Fred's Hens]

cmom's bird. She also has some in single comb, but those would just be a white, single combed bird, but she could use them in a breeding program.

 

[gjensen]

No that is not what I was thinking of. No offense to whomever, but I wouldn't call that a Rhode Island White. I am not picking on her bird. With these ultra rare breeds, you start with what you can can get. I want to see if I can find it, but 10,000 posts would be some work to sort through. I remember NYreds commenting on it. it was a male.

 

[OSUman]

Might this be the post?

I got some RIW's from Sand Hill last year. They could use some work, but they are what I am starting with. Duane Urch had a problem where most of his RIW hens died, so he said he probably couldn't fill my order until next year. I am pretty much just breeding them and collecting all their eggs to hatch. I hope to hatch a lot to cull. I did get one SC in my order which I culled but the rest were RC. I kept 3 pullets and 2 cockerels. I showed 3 of them last year at an APA show, but they were a bit young at the time. I find them to have pretty good temperaments and are good layers. I really like them and wonder why they are so unpopular. I don't have more recent pictures. I want to say they are 6 or 7 months old or so in these pictures.







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[gjensen]

I am not certain. Maybe that is the pictures. Not as good as I remember, but still not bad. I may have been excited to see an a Rhode Island White. Those look more RIW to me than the recent posts.

Maybe that is the breed that Chris needs to take on, LOL.

 

[Robert Blosl]

R I Whites are the greatest chickens ever invented. So they say like so many of the other breeds that got into the Standard and never go off the ground.. Kind of reminds me of the Spruce GOOSE. Do you know who owned that plane?

They tried so hard to ride the coat tails in the 1930s and 40s with the Rhode Island red club and posting the birds in the Rhode Island Red Journal. They look about the same today as they did then. Poor Feather Quality laking the brick shape most of the time. Here is a question to you who have read the Poultry Press from say 1945 to the present. Do you ever remember seeing a Rhode Island White on Champion Row.??? I have read them all from then to the present and I can not think of one time this has happen.

So many people drove me nuts trying to find this breed over the past two years. I have never seen anything to get me really excited. However, many will continue to want them and get them and that is good.

Now for a real good chicken Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. There are a few good birds out there today. I like the new Sectary of the Red clubs large fowl Rose Combs. He has some really nice typed birds and they look like single combs from about 10 years ago.

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[Chris09]

Bob,
Howard Hughes owned the Hughes H-4 Hercules aka the "Spruce Goose".

Chris

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

R I Whites are the greatest chickens ever invented. So they say like so many of the other breeds that got into the Standard and never go off the ground.. Kind of reminds me of the Spruce GOOSE. Do you know who owned that plane?

They tried so hard to ride the coat tails in the 1930s and 40s with the Rhode Island red club and posting the birds in the Rhode Island Red Journal. They look about the same today as they did then. Poor Feather Quality laking the brick shape most of the time. Here is a question to you who have read the Poultry Press from say 1945 to the present. Do you ever remember seeing a Rhode Island White on Champion Row.??? I have read them all from then to the present and I can not think of one time this has happen.

So many people drove me nuts trying to find this breed over the past two years. I have never seen anything to get me really excited. However, many will continue to want them and get them and that is good.

Now for a real good chicken Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. There are a few good birds out there today. I like the new Sectary of the Red clubs large fowl Rose Combs. He has some really nice typed birds and they look like single combs from about 10 years ago.

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1945. Wow. Really brings into perspective how young I really am compared to ya'll!

I can't recall ever seeing a Rhode Island White in real life. I don't really understand what the "deal" is with them. They just look like Rosecombed White Plymouth Rocks to me? Not much of similarity to a Rhode Island Red in body style at all?

 

[OSUman]

They should have the Rhode Island body style

1945. Wow. Really brings into perspective how young I really am compared to ya'll!

I can't recall ever seeing a Rhode Island White in real life. I don't really understand what the "deal" is with them. They just look like Rosecombed White Plymouth Rocks to me? Not much of similarity to a Rhode Island Red in body style at all?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

So, on a slightly different subject. I'm a bit amazed. I had set up some special pairings for an Ancona project with the intention of hatching some out before our heavy hatching season begins. Well, a cold snap hit, and I was pulling eggs in 14 degrees after work, when they had been sitting in the boxes in uninsulated coops. Indeed, I wrote the daily temperatures on the eggs. I even brought some up to the kitchen to fry and inspect, finding slushy whites. Well, I just candled after the first week and 44 out of 50 are fertile and fine. 88% fertility was much more that I was hoping for. I was gearing up to through the whole lot out. Not too bad...now they just have to hatch in high percentage...