The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[utahslim]

I have both Single Comb and Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. I love my RIR's.
Here is one of my RC RIR males
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This is one of my SC RIR females.View attachment 1822443

Do you still have your rose comb Rhode Island reds?

 

[utahslim]

Beautiful creatures

I am interested in a dozen rose comb Rhode Island reds

 

[787junglist]

I have posted a lot in this thread I love my Reds. I raise both Rose Comb and Single Comb.
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[787junglist]

I am interested in a dozen rose comb Rhode Island reds

I'm new with them and haven't bred any yet...I'm from Puerto Rico. Maybe anybody from the mainland can help you better than me. I got my SC RIR from Cackle hatchery 5 months ago and they coming up nicely. Lost a couple last month due to fowl pox but they are now healthy and strong

 

[787junglist]

Please I need somebody to criticize my birds, I'd accept your honest opinion about them. I need help with selecting my breeders for body type,color and feather quality etc...I need mentoring because I'm alone in my country. No APA representative appointed or breed clubs or shows nothing...only cockfighting. I'm trying to stick to the standard of 1900 and preserve a piece of American history. I'm not into showing my birds and winning shows...but my plan is to breed to the sop and have good double purpose animals for my family farm. Any pointers or something would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

They come from Cackle hatchery...but the hatchery got their stock in 2019 from Mrs. Ruth Lee Caron and she runs Mr. Lloyd Flanagans bloodline. That's all I know about my birds. Thanks again!

Can anybody tell me more information about Mr Lloyd Flanagans bloodline...where and who he got his first breeding stock from? Who had it before? How many years he's got it? How about the poultry world there in the mainland..is actually as of today Mr Flanagans line any good? As for my experience with this chicks,they are coming along very nice and almost all have the desired body type/color and leg color/tail angle and coloring/ticking in the hackles etc...pleas help me with your opinions and recommendations of mating etc

 

[787junglist]

Where has everybody and their awesome comments and responses gone? This spectacular thread was so alive and full of activity. I've been reading this whole thread for months. I'm so sad so many good people from here has passed away and took their knowledge with them. It's good to see the red fever grew for a couple of years with many talented and dedicated people selecting for purpose and standard and has been kind of steady. I've laughed and got kind of angry too... Anyway,I'm here to learn,share my experience and have fun...I think this is the 9th time I say it...but,I'm from Puerto Rico.


I have 5 non laying pullets and 1 ckrl from Mr Lloyd Flanagans line

 

[Niteeyes]

I have posted a lot in this thread I love my Reds. I raise both Rose Comb and Single Comb.
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Those RIRs are beautiful! Where did you get your rose comb RIRs from?

 

[787junglist]

Thanks Jim.
I was sick over it and still feel really bad.Here is what happened.
I spent the better part of a weekend digging a 150+ foot trench and installing a waterline to my grow out pens and brooding area. I used 20' lengths of 1" PVC and a frost free hydrant. I finished just as it was getting dark on Sunday. Bone tired I retired for the day. The next morning before leaving for work, I ran the water until it ran clear (not very long) and watered my chicks and young birds.
The first water I filled was the 5 1/2 week RIR.
When I came home that evening they were all dead. Also a bird in the pen with the next water I filled was very ill. No other pens that received water that morning were affected.
I can only assume that there was something in the water line that poisoned them.

Ron

The glue you may have used to adhere the piping could have been for electrical conduit or something else and not the specific plumbing non toxic cement

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Thanks Jim.
I was sick over it and still feel really bad.Here is what happened.
I spent the better part of a weekend digging a 150+ foot trench and installing a waterline to my grow out pens and brooding area. I used 20' lengths of 1" PVC and a frost free hydrant. I finished just as it was getting dark on Sunday. Bone tired I retired for the day. The next morning before leaving for work, I ran the water until it ran clear (not very long) and watered my chicks and young birds.
The first water I filled was the 5 1/2 week RIR.
When I came home that evening they were all dead. Also a bird in the pen with the next water I filled was very ill. No other pens that received water that morning were affected.
I can only assume that there was something in the water line that poisoned them.

Ron

OMG hugs… I would be sick too. So sorry that happened.

Are you pulling the line? Or having the water tested?

For me it has been a double wammy, flock theft including whole breeding stock and then a predator attack took out most of my new birds I had raised after the theft.

So rebuilding… starting over, re-evaluating everything. Including breeds. Better pens, different house designs, how to improve security... everything.

I am going to add RIR back to the flock.

Hugs.

 

[787junglist]

they are almost 8 months old