The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[laurrie]

DOES ANYONE HAVE HERITAGE RIR BANTAMS CHICKS WILLING TO SHIP? OR IN WA, OR OR? THANKS! ALSO LOOKING FOR QUALITY WHITE DORKINGS

 

[sgribble]

I got a bunch of pictures from a friend and one picture that caught my eye was this Mohawk Ckl. Look at his leg placement and his top line.
He is just a young guy but he looks to have great type for such a young male. Just one more future Mohawk R I Red breeder to help us get the number out for the future. Thanks Steve for sending me all the pictures. bob

Thank You Bob for all your help.I would also like to say Thank You to Matt. I hope to have more of these in a couple of months.
Steven

 

[docdandc]

CA has a couple of the best Heritage RIR breeders in the US.

I have already talked to Dave Anderson and he was very helpful. Not too far from me, North about 2hrs. I would like to visit him and see his RIR's.

Thanks for the replys everyone. I like the idea of starting with a pure line of Reds and I know he has good ones.

Questions for the HRIR breeders out there: If everyone is playing the numbers game and breeding hundreds of Reds each year what is the percentage of culls vs.keepers ususally? I would imagine, if they looked like peas in a pod, someone may be able to actually sell older birds to the beginner. Maybe they have a whole flock of 95+point Reds and need to thin them out a little. Is this how it goes? Are there actually HRIR breeders out there who have so many high percentages of high point birds that they are wanting to scale down? I am wondering if the flocks that look like peas in a pod are actually just the top group of an already culled and hand picked flock, on its 80th+ year of breeding. Can this be done on a small scale, with success?

 

[chickenhistory]

Hi everyone, noticed a lot of feed to my blog, just to let you know if you go to the home page and click on older posts and scroll down you will come across full catalogs with breed descriptions and mating lists with points and type descriptions of the birds mated up. these are very valueable to know what the farms considered to be of most value.there are quite a few so when you find one link it for your teamates, I am not quite capable to do all this, but it wont take long for a few of you to find them, you will find plenty of items amoungst these so it is probably worth your while..i will find some more and list soon, we are in the middle of our show season here in Australia, the show on the weekend had over 5000 chooks, ducks, geese. bantams, guinea fowl, etc, it was a great event.in Australia we still have the bloodlines from America, from the 1920's to the 1940's when quarantine stopped any more birds or eggs coming in, we have a standard here and they are still the same as was used in AMERICA back when such standards were made. without the constant review and changes, I have bred barred rocks for 35 years and we still double mate and have both lights and darks available, our reds are still the same as Tomkins had in the early 1900's. I saw your birds in the 1998 show at Columbus OHIO, THE COMBINED SHOW A.B.A. and A.P.A.
YOUR RECENT dialog will benefit greatly from the info listed , it is in the timeline when commercial flocks were more required, the depression meaning Eggs were going to pay the bills more than ribbons,
my BLOG is a sleeping giant most of these pages have not been found yet, I was glad to get a head start so that every visit is worthwhile, be shore to read the instructions for viewing they changed the format , but if you follow whole pages can be blown up foe easy reading and scrutiny.


thanks to Jim and Bob , for their kind words, and letting everyone know.

you can find me @ chickenhistorynow.blogspot.com

 

[Bullitt]

I have a question that I hope the Rhode Island Red enthusiasts here can answer.

Many of the hatchery strains of Rhode Island Reds have had the broodiness bred out of them. How broody are heritage Rhode Island Reds?

Thanks.

 

[ronott1]

Hi everyone, noticed a lot of feed to my blog, just to let you know if you go to the home page and click on older posts and scroll down you will come across full catalogs with breed descriptions and mating lists with points and type descriptions of the birds mated up. these are very valueable to know what the farms considered to be of most value.there are quite a few so when you find one link it for your teamates, I am not quite capable to do all this, but it wont take long for a few of you to find them, you will find plenty of items amoungst these so it is probably worth your while..i will find some more and list soon, we are in the middle of our show season here in Australia, the show on the weekend had over 5000 chooks, ducks, geese. bantams, guinea fowl, etc, it was a great event.in Australia we still have the bloodlines from America, from the 1920's to the 1940's when quarantine stopped any more birds or eggs coming in, we have a standard here and they are still the same as was used in AMERICA back when such standards were made. without the constant review and changes, I have bred barred rocks for 35 years and we still double mate and have both lights and darks available, our reds are still the same as Tomkins had in the early 1900's. I saw your birds in the 1998 show at Columbus OHIO, THE COMBINED SHOW A.B.A. and A.P.A.
YOUR RECENT dialog will benefit greatly from the info listed , it is in the timeline when commercial flocks were more required, the depression meaning Eggs were going to pay the bills more than ribbons,
my BLOG is a sleeping giant most of these pages have not been found yet, I was glad to get a head start so that every visit is worthwhile, be shore to read the instructions for viewing they changed the format , but if you follow whole pages can be blown up foe easy reading and scrutiny.


thanks to Jim and Bob , for their kind words, and letting everyone know.

you can find me @ chickenhistorynow.blogspot.com

I really like your site!

thanks for the point about the Depression and working towards egg production. It is sad that it did not work, since the Leghorn and the sex links ultimately won at egg producing after most of the SQ RIRs were gone or in sad shape.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

I have a question that I hope the Rhode Island Red enthusiasts here can answer.

Many of the hatchery strains of Rhode Island Reds have had the broodiness bred out of them. How broody are heritage Rhode Island Reds?

Thanks.

Great question!

I would like to know this too.

Ron

 

[immyjay54]

Great question!

I would like to know this too.

Ron

I have different lines of the heritage RIR but all are young accept the Kittle line that I hatched last year (June 23). Right now I have 3 broody. Trying my best to break them up but they are determined. lol I have 9 hens and 1 cock bird of this line and before these girls wanted to start going broody, I was getting 5-6 eggs per day from these 9 girls.
Jim

 

[NYREDS]

I have different lines of the heritage RIR but all are young accept the Kittle line that I hatched last year (June 23). Right now I have 3 broody. Trying my best to break them up but they are determined. lol I have 9 hens and 1 cock bird of this line and before these girls wanted to start going broody, I was getting 5-6 eggs per day from these 9 girls.
Jim

As with other breeds this will vary from strain to strain. Mine are not broody at all or at least none I've hatched yet have been.

 

[Robert Blosl]

DOES ANYONE HAVE HERITAGE RIR BANTAMS CHICKS WILLING TO SHIP? OR IN WA, OR OR? THANKS! ALSO LOOKING FOR QUALITY WHITE DORKINGS

Its June and to hot to ship or I could send you some started chicks. I had a fair year with Red Bantams. The fellow who has Yellow House farm has White Dorkrings and about as good as there are in the USA. This is another breed that got breed down to nothing over the years becasue of lack of skills in breeding or no interest. Their are plenty of ones advertised in the back of Mother Earth News that you can order but they are the breed down type.

It will take at least ten years maybe twenty for these rare breeds to get back to what they ever once was if they where there in the first place. So many of these old breeds that have pretty pictures painted never .reached the level of other breeds. The re sons are many my wife says the prettyer the color the harder they are to breed. If its the color of thier house they want a chicken like that. Egg color is another thing that turns new people on and many of breeds are not true to type either. The Blue Rocks where the most popular breed in the last two years for us and not any that I knew of who wanted them got any. I have never seen a Blue Rock on Champion Row in the Poultry Press in 30 years. Why do these new people want the hardest chicken color in the world to own and they have not even learned to run a incubator yet? It drives me nuts some times.
r s
Whatch out on the Rhode Island Red bantams the have changed as well. Most of them look like Plymouth Rocks in type people have breed the backs off of them and the cochin genes are taking over the breed. There are only maybe four strains left with the correct brick shape .If I see one with elevated top lines they get the ax. Hope this helps.you in your search be patient or you will have what everone else has scrubs. However if you like the new look of Red Rocks the are everywhere. bob