The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

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Originally Posted by daxigait View Post


It will be a bit since I am headed out of town for the weekend so maybe next week.
How are yours doing? I s the second group feathering yet?
I understand. As long as they have a safe and acceptable place to live, other accommodations can wait until we have time. Mine are doing great. The 1 month olds (1st batch with two families) are feathering... and going through that ugly stage where they look a lot like vultures. Uploading a video to YouTube right now, but it'll be tomorrow before I post it here. I'll be asleep before it finishes uploading. The second group (same 2 families) is starting to hatch.

Heading to bed now. Have a great night, daxi!

 

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It will be a bit since I am headed out of town for the weekend so maybe next week.
How are yours doing? I s the second group feathering yet?

I understand. As long as they have a safe and acceptable place to live, other accommodations can wait until we have time. Mine are doing great. The 1 month olds (1st batch with two families) are feathering... and going through that ugly stage where they look a lot like vultures. Uploading a video to YouTube right now, but it'll be tomorrow before I post it here. I'll be asleep before it finishes uploading. The second group (same 2 families) is starting to hatch.

Heading to bed now. Have a great night, daxi!

 

[redguinea]

Please feel free to critique one of my pullets

 

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My month old reds...

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Please feel free to critique one of my pullets

Hard to tell much from a quartering angle, but she appears to have a full breast, nice wide head, bright yellow legs with a splash of horn on shanks, and good feathers. Don't see any lacing in the hackles. She seems to be pinched towards the tail... but it may be the angle. For a better evaluation, pics from the front, sides, and top would be very helpful. Of course, pictures can never compare to seeing and feeling the birds... it's just a rough guesstimate.

 

[daxigait]

My month old reds...

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Cute for the stage. Nice color and bricky from what I can see on my phone. I look forward to seeing them as they mature. The legs on yours like mine don't have the dark yellow. Will that come as they mature? Mine have some of the red showing on the fronts now.

 

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Cute for the stage. Nice color and bricky from what I can see on my phone. I look forward to seeing them as they mature. The legs on yours like mine don't have the dark yellow. Will that come as they mature? Mine have some of the red showing on the fronts now.

Thanks, daxi. They've shown good type since they were a few days old. My phone mutes the leg color. Thier legs are actually a very bright, caution sign yellow with many having light horn splash on the front and red streaks down the sides. Most likely cockerels. If yours aren't yellow now, they probably never will be. Sorry...

 

[Fred's Hens]

Yellow legs- You don't normally get those in the hatcher, or at least not a lot of it.

Once they get out on grass here? The legs turn "road caution yellow" in a matter of days. Not a problem at all. Intense yellow with super dark horn all over the front and many will have a red dashed line going down the side of the leg.

Now, the thing is that I understand that not all grass everywhere in N. America provides the necessary nutrients to yellow the legs. I did not know that until recently when I wintered along the Gulf Coast. Or at least, if I once knew I've slept since then. LOL

So, marigold extract is included in many good show bird feeds to provide for the deepening leg coloration.
Of course, a pullet who lays super heavy will be drained of the yellow as she concludes her pullet year. That too is normal.

 

[daxigait]

Thanks for the information. I appreciate the help.
Any comments on my chicks?

 

[Fred's Hens]

Thanks for the information. I appreciate the help.
Any comments on my chicks?

They look very healthy and looks like you're taking very good care of them Give them time and we'll see what mine and yours and everyone else's look like at 20 weeks. LOL Until then, all we do is clean waterers, rake poop, and haul expensive feed to them. That's what we do.

BTW, a friendly tip? Do not use the dreaded "roo" word here. They're either males or cockerels. That other word is some kind made up thing and makes true poultry folks think of a marsupial in Australia or baby talk or whatever. Just purge it from your vocabulary. Part of learning this fancy is learning and using proper terminology. Dang, the juniors and 4H kids are required to learn it. But anyhow, just sayin'.

Now, your birds look great. Keep at it!! These Reds are a great breed and let's carry them on for the future generations.

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