The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[ShrekDawg]

Whats the difference between the eyes and this?

http://www.niteguard.com

 

[cmom]

Whats the difference between the eyes and this?

http://www.niteguard.com

They are very similar except the eyes are 2 flashing from what I've seen. I leave a radio on a talk station at night. I don't know if it's helped but I haven't lost a bird to a predator in a very long time. A hawk flew over the chick coop today and they all hightailed it into the coop. There is no way the hawk could get them. I have netting over their pen too.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Whats the difference between the eyes and this?

http://www.niteguard.com

As cmom said, Solar Nite Eyes have two flashing LED's... which resemble a pair of watchful eyes. This has been proven to be far more effective than a single LED. Not only that, the nightguard is $19.95 each, so a total of 4 (recommended) will cost $79.80. A set of 4 Solar Nite Eyes from MPC costs $49. More effective and $30 less is a no-brainer.

 

[cmom]

Lot's of pips. 2 Wallace chicks, 1 Skipper chick and 1 Junior chick so far.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Lot's of pips. 2 Wallace chicks, 1 Skipper chick and 1 Junior chick so far.

Congratulations... and good luck with the rest!!!

I saw your picture of Wallace. Nice looking boy. I also remember seeing a picture of Champ, but I don't recall seeing Skipper or Junior...

 

[cmom]

Quote: I thought I had a picture

Quote: I thought I had a picture of Skipper but couldn't find it so I'll take another one. I don't have a picture of Junior so I will take one of him. Junior is a Rose Comb. How is your little Rose Comb? His father would be Dexter.
Dexter, Junior carries his wings higher.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I thought I had a picture

I thought I had a picture of Skipper but couldn't find it so I'll take another one. I don't have a picture of Junior so I will take one of him. Junior is a Rose Comb. How is your little Rose Comb? His father would be Dexter.
Dexter, Junior carries his wings higher.

That's another fine looking boy. I have seen pics of some of your males, and just may not remember who's who. I tend to forget names...

My RC is doing great and growing like a weed. I think he is actually a she. It's sprouting feathers faster than it's hatch mate. Wing bows, thighs, and tail feathers are coming in, while the SC has just a few here and there. When I realized it was an RC, I was hoping it would be a female so I could at least use it for a layer, and had hoped the SC would be a female since I don't have many females from Sonny (pen #1). I have a pair of good looking males from Sonny, and one good looking male from Champ... two good looking females from Champ, and one good looking female from Sonny. The others are lagging a little, but it's still a long time until spring. Things can change a lot in nine months, so I'll have to wait and see what I have to work with when breeding time rolls around.

 

[cmom]

Quote: A few years ago I put a Rose Comb Red male with some Single Comb Red females as an experiment and about half the hatch was RC and half SC. I The next breeding season I took the SC's females from the previous RC/SC hatch and put them with a SC male and all the chicks came out SC. I have one SC RIW/White Wyandotte cross I put with a SC RIR male and her chicks came out as BSL. A friend told me there is a dominant black gene in the Wyandotte. I like to experiment. I gave those birds to a friend. I still have my SC RIW/White Wyandotte cross female. She is in with my SC RIW's. I'll sell her chicks when they get old enough and the males will go into the freezer. The crosses from last year turned out to be excellent layers. When I figured out the yearly lay from them was 320 eggs. I did keep some then thinking they were males and they would have gone into the freezer but they turned out to be females and super layers. I did eventually sell them because I needed their coop and pen.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

A few years ago I put a Rose Comb Red male with some Single Comb Red females as an experiment and about half the hatch was RC and half SC. I The next breeding season I took the SC's females from the previous RC/SC hatch and put them with a SC male and all the chicks came out SC. I have one SC RIW/White Wyandotte cross I put with a SC RIR male and her chicks came out as BSL. A friend told me there is a dominant black gene in the Wyandotte. I like to experiment. I gave those birds to a friend. I still have my SC RIW/White Wyandotte cross female. She is in with my SC RIW's. I'll sell her chicks when they get old enough and the males will go into the freezer. The crosses from last year turned out to be excellent layers. When I figured out the yearly lay from them was 320 eggs. I did keep some then thinking they were males and they would have gone into the freezer but they turned out to be females and super layers. I did eventually sell them because I needed their coop and pen.

I've wondered how it would work out if I bred the (alleged) female RC to an SC male. I knew there would be a mix of RC and SC in the offspring, but wondered if the RC would show up in future generations if the SC offspring were bred to other SC's... or if the SC gene would eventually wipe out the RC gene. If space and time allows, I may have to experiment with this cross in the future...

 

[cmom]

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The answer is no. I have tried it and all of the offspring turned out to be SC. Future generations from her chicks would be SC. If you got a RC male from her you could breed him back to her, the original RC female, then you still could get some SC but a greater chance of RC. SC is dominant over RC. There are some breeders who use our SC line and breed into their RC line and do get some RC and SC. My original breeding years ago was a RC male with SC females and I got about 50/50 RC/SC. OK to breed mother/son, father/daughter.