Ribh's D'Coopage

[rjohns39]

Good morning all.

Good morning Bob, have a great day

 

[Grammy60]

Good morning all.

Good morning Bob did you have a nice Christmas?

 

[RoyalChick]

Most breeds are known for a certain color, White Leghorn, Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, etc. It's OK to start there but then you need to examine the size, shape, comb, legs, tail, wings, head, eyes, etc. to determine the breed. To make things harder, breeders are always trying to create new feather colors in existing breeds. The Lavender Leghorn is new in the last couple of years. I followed its development on BYC.

I realize this makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy (and maybe I am ), but I feel like that makes no sense to me! I feel like I have mastered White Leghorn, Buff, and indeed Lavender, Orpington and of course Maggie is a Rhode Island Red.
Please tell me there isn't a Lavender Rhode Island Red. Or would that be called a Rhode Island Lavender?

 

[featherhead007]

I realize this makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy (and maybe I am ), but I feel like that makes no sense to me! I feel like I have mastered White Leghorn, Buff, and indeed Lavender, Orpington and of course Maggie is a Rhode Island Red.
Please tell me there isn't a Lavender Rhode Island Red. Or would that be called a Rhode Island Lavender?

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning Bob, have a great day

Thanks Bob. Are you enjoying your days off?

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning Bob did you have a nice Christmas?

We really did. No book so far but my new son in law arrives today and we will open more presents tomorrow so there is still hope.

How about you?

 

[rjohns39]

Thanks Bob. Are you enjoying your days off?

Immensely. It will be crazy starting Monday!

On your topic of leghorns, I started out with Isabella Leghorns, the lavender ones. Way too much work to maintain the color so I sold my last breeding pair.

 

[RoyalChick]

Immensely. It will be crazy starting Monday!

On your topic of leghorns, I started out with Isabella Leghorns, the lavender ones. Way too much work to maintain the color so I sold my last breeding pair.

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Wow - those are very, very pretty!

 

[BY Bob]

I realize this makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy (and maybe I am ), but I feel like that makes no sense to me! I feel like I have mastered White Leghorn, Buff, and indeed Lavender, Orpington and of course Maggie is a Rhode Island Red.
Please tell me there isn't a Lavender Rhode Island Red. Or would that be called a Rhode Island Lavender?

There are gradients of color but the RIR only comes in red. The feathers of the RIR range from a lustrous deep red to almost black and the tail is mostly black.

There is a New Hampshire Red that was developed from the RIR in 1915. They are also red but lighter than RIRs sometimes including yellow feathers. While RIRs can have either single or rose combs, NHRs only have single combs. While the RIR is a egg producing breed, the NHR is a dual purpose breed, has a deeper broader body. Even so the NHR does come in standard and bantam.

I say this to point out that a lighter colored feather on a single comb RIR could be confused with a NHR until you look at the body characteristics. The NHR is significantly larger.

The other hen that is frequently confused with RIRs is the Production Red. True RIRs are very dark in color with the black tail and neck feathers. Production Reds tend to be lighter in color and frequently will have white feathers because they have been cross bred with, of all things, white leghorns, to increase egg production. They will have a slighter build than RIRs because of this as well.

 

[rjohns39]

Wow - those are very, very pretty!

A beautiful bird that carries my Granddaughter's name, so I had to have them for their first visit.