The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Fred's Hens]

I totally agree on the use of "heritage" everywhere. I'm almost done building a multi-coop with attached runs for breeding. I've never done any breeding before and in fact I've only been raising hatchery Barred Rocks and White Leghorns since the beginning of this year. At first my idea was just to raise them for eggs and manure for my vegetable gardens but I quickly became enamored with them and started devoting a lot of time to learning about chickens. Like most things I learned an awful lot from doing my homework and now I really have a desire to breed lines as close to the original dual purpose chickens and also Brown Leghorns. The next big thing I learned was that it's very difficult to locate good breeders of what I thought were common breeds like the Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Leghorns. So I'm still working on that. I joined the APA and Livestock Conservancy but so far everyone I contacted on the ALBC's breeder list for the breeds I'm interested in have told me they no longer breed chickens, so the search continues. I sent Dick Horstman an email regarding RIR's and I have a line on two Barred Rock breeders but I've had absolutely no luck at all on finding a Brown Leghorn breeder. I even tried to join the Brown Leghorn club but apparently they're in limbo per the head of it - I found that out from their Facebook group. So I'll just keep on truckin' until I get there. I'm hoping Dick Horstman gets back to me. In the meantime I have my membership application to the Rhode Island Red Club of America ready for the mail tomorrow morning. Hopefully maybe I can get in touch with a RIR breeder there. The original dual purpose RIR is such a beautiful bird that I'd really love to successfully breed them and help keep them going.

Lacy Greer (sp) is in your neighborhood and extremely well versed in the Reds and is a very respected breeder. By virtue of your APA membership, you should receive the APA Annual, the YearBook. These are terrific resources as a good number of breeders/exhibitors/fanciers take out ads. At this time of year, 100's of superb quality birds end up being sold to folks who don't care much for the birds, other than they pretty up their flock or can lay eggs for them. A sad reality. All breeders have an excess of juvenile stock this time of year. Even me. We aren't going to carry all these LF through the winter, so we do what we can to peddle them off or start eating them or canning them. AZ is a bit far for driving to pick up or for shipping birds from the midwest or south where Reds dominate. Get in touch with Lacy and ask for his help. Here's to hoping something can be worked out. Reds ARE available, in relatively good numbers. Folks WANT Reds everywhere, but connecting the breeders to the new folks, in an economically feasible way? That's the challenge.

 

[ejcrist]

Lacy Greer (sp) is in your neighborhood and extremely well versed in the Reds and is a very respected breeder. By virtue of your APA membership, you should receive the APA Annual, the YearBook. These are terrific resources as a good number of breeders/exhibitors/fanciers take out ads. At this time of year, 100's of superb quality birds end up being sold to folks who don't care much for the birds, other than they pretty up their flock or can lay eggs for them. A sad reality. All breeders have an excess of juvenile stock this time of year. Even me. We aren't going to carry all these LF through the winter, so we do what we can to peddle them off or start eating them or canning them. AZ is a bit far for driving to pick up or for shipping birds from the midwest or south where Reds dominate. Get in touch with Lacy and ask for his help. Here's to hoping something can be worked out. Reds ARE available, in relatively good numbers. Folks WANT Reds everywhere, but connecting the breeders to the new folks, in an economically feasible way? That's the challenge.

Gosh, thanks a million Fred - I really, really appreciate the lead! I'll look him up right now.

 

[ejcrist]

Lacy Greer (sp) is in your neighborhood and extremely well versed in the Reds and is a very respected breeder. By virtue of your APA membership, you should receive the APA Annual, the YearBook. These are terrific resources as a good number of breeders/exhibitors/fanciers take out ads. At this time of year, 100's of superb quality birds end up being sold to folks who don't care much for the birds, other than they pretty up their flock or can lay eggs for them. A sad reality. All breeders have an excess of juvenile stock this time of year. Even me. We aren't going to carry all these LF through the winter, so we do what we can to peddle them off or start eating them or canning them. AZ is a bit far for driving to pick up or for shipping birds from the midwest or south where Reds dominate. Get in touch with Lacy and ask for his help. Here's to hoping something can be worked out. Reds ARE available, in relatively good numbers. Folks WANT Reds everywhere, but connecting the breeders to the new folks, in an economically feasible way? That's the challenge.

Thanks again for that tip and info Fred. I sent Lacy an email. I joined the APA back around March and looked through the yearbook briefly but mostly studied the standard. I had higher hopes for the ALBC but it seems a lot of their info is not current, even the 2016 breeders list. I'm going to go back and look over the yearbook a lot more closely. Thanks again.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

@cmom this is one of Sonny's offspring. Just 24 weeks old, so it'll be a little longer to see how he finishes out. His tail's filling in nicely, and he's beginning to show good type. I'm thinking when his breast fills in, the "brick" will be more pronounced. For some weird reason, his back doesn't look very long in this picture. In person, his back is rather long...

Here's one of his sisters...

 

[cmom]

@cmom this is one of Sonny's offspring. Just 24 weeks old, so it'll be a little longer to see how he finishes out. His tail's filling in nicely, and he's beginning to show good type. I'm thinking when his breast fills in, the "brick" will be more pronounced. For some weird reason, his back doesn't look very long in this picture. In person, his back is rather long...

Here's one of his sisters...

I'm a proud godmother.

 

[cmom]

There is a show this weekend. The males I was planning on taking aren't too handsome because of their molt so I'm taking a nice RIW cockerel a RIW pullet and a RC RIR hen. I'll take the SC RIR males to the spring show.

 

[daxigait]

@cmom this is one of Sonny's offspring. Just 24 weeks old, so it'll be a little longer to see how he finishes out. His tail's filling in nicely, and he's beginning to show good type. I'm thinking when his breast fills in, the "brick" will be more pronounced. For some weird reason, his back doesn't look very long in this picture. In person, his back is rather long...

Here's one of his sisters...

And you were worried

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm a proud godmother.

You sure are!!!

And you were worried

 

[ejcrist]

@cmom this is one of Sonny's offspring. Just 24 weeks old, so it'll be a little longer to see how he finishes out. His tail's filling in nicely, and he's beginning to show good type. I'm thinking when his breast fills in, the "brick" will be more pronounced. For some weird reason, his back doesn't look very long in this picture. In person, his back is rather long...

Here's one of his sisters...

Gosh, they're both extremely beautiful birds! He's really, really fantastic. I'd be very proud to own them.

 

[cmom]

@cmom this is one of Sonny's offspring. Just 24 weeks old, so it'll be a little longer to see how he finishes out. His tail's filling in nicely, and he's beginning to show good type. I'm thinking when his breast fills in, the "brick" will be more pronounced. For some weird reason, his back doesn't look very long in this picture. In person, his back is rather long...

He is handsome. Some of my boys have nice long backs but pictures don't show it well either. Were these the test hatch eggs? I have a lot of really nice birds growing out. I recently sold the rest of my Sex-Links so now I have an open coop and pen so time to sort some more.