THERE IS Standard Rhode Island Reds in Rose Comb and Single Comb
They come in large fowl and bantams sold by breeders but not by Hatcheries.
What is so hard to understand. These are not the same chickens that where breed and sold by breeders in the 1940s and 50s.
We have animal breed clubs. They are for different breeds of dogs, cats, cattle and poultry ect.
I can join the German Shepard Club of Ameica but I can tell people or sell people puppies from my dog becasue he looks like a German Shepard but his mother was a beagle mix and the father was a regester German Shepard.
If you want pets like I do in dogs I dont care if they are not pure breeds.
When it comes to chickens I want to spend my money on birds that look like standard breed birds.
If I want to look at Hatchery Chickens all I have to do is walk 400 yards west of me and see my neighbors flock of chickens he got in the mail. He is happy with them and that is all that counts. He just wants chickens to lay eggs he has no desire to preserve a breed.
However, he is a guy who goes fishing. Every thing has to be just so so. He ties flys. The fly has to look just like the fly in the books that he is trying to copy. To me I could care less. I buy a fly from the store tie it on and fish with it. I do not have the art or gift to tie super fancy flys like he does.
My point is we all have wants and needs.
There are 99 people on this thread who want hatchery stock will pay $25. plus shiping for eggs from people who got birds at first from a Hatchery and these people are happy if they hacth three or four chicks. If they are happy thats all that counts
There is 1 person out of 99 on this web site who want chickens that are breed by the standard. If you fault these poor souls for doing this have mercy on your souls.
Some one has to try to keep these rare breeds of chickens going so many are down to 25 to 50 live birds today.
There will always be hundreds of hatchery chickens years from now. But try to find the lost genes in these birds to reproduce them back to the origin they came from. It will take a life time if you are lucky. Look at the Delawares. They have to go out and cross new hampsires to barred rock male to start a new breed. The genes from what is left are gone.
Have respect to the breed and the old timers who started them years ago. We 1% are trying to do this and honor these old men such as Ken Bowles when we can. They picture below is the last picture Mr. Schilling painted of the true glory day female. She would only lay about 185 eggs in her pullet year. She would produce males and females that had good flesh on thier bodies to eat and they where nice to look at. They are a dual purpose breed. Dont confuse them with a bird that is breed for egg production.
Do any of you know who Ken Bowles was????
New Hampshire Reds what a name. bob
bad type and color
