The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[catdaddyfro]

Looks like classic Nelson Rhode Island Reds. great leg color nice horn color in the beak as well. The chick feathers are deep dark red. This is a great old line of Reds and if you live in the cold they are all ready tough and can take the extreme cold climate. One of the top lines in the USA just dont cross them keep them pure. There are enough people who have Dons birds to get a good bird and cross onto your line down the road.

I got a phone call today fro a guy in Georgia who wanted some of my old Mohawk large fowl. He told me has had Bennett's Reds for about three years. He can not get a hold of him and he does not know what is going on.

He said he will take some pictures of them he lives in jasper Georgia. Above Atlanta he said.

This is another great strain of large fowl reds. Thanks for posting your pictures it helps the beginner who comes over looking at our pictures so they can com pair our dark reds with their cherry eggers.

LOL Bob is stirring the pot here huh, yes it is a good idea to show the people the real thing compared to an aftermarket reproduction of something.

Kinda like a genuine GM fender compared to J.C.Whitneys version, huh Walt?, They sorta look the part and will fit but one sure takes a lot more work to get it in the right place than the other. LOL

Jeff

 

[immyjay54]

Looks like classic Nelson Rhode Island Reds. great leg color nice horn color in the beak as well. The chick feathers are deep dark red. This is a great old line of Reds and if you live in the cold they are all ready tough and can take the extreme cold climate. One of the top lines in the USA just dont cross them keep them pure. There are enough people who have Dons birds to get a good bird and cross onto your line down the road.

I got a phone call today fro a guy in Georgia who wanted some of my old Mohawk large fowl. He told me has had Bennett's Reds for about three years. He can not get a hold of him and he does not know what is going on.

He said he will take some pictures of them he lives in jasper Georgia. Above Atlanta he said.

This is another great strain of large fowl reds. Thanks for posting your pictures it helps the beginner who comes over looking at our pictures so they can com pair our dark reds with their cherry eggers.

Thanks for the comments Bob. The ones that I posted are from dinahmoe (on BYC) who got them from the guy in Mass. who gets his directly from Don. The other 10 that I have that are just a little over 2 weeks are from Bill (NYREDS) so I am pretty well set for having the new blood with them. Also, when I got the eggs from Bill, he had a few marked with R1 on them. Bill said these eggs come from a pen that should produce some really nice cockerels. As you can see, I do band them and I do have different color bands and also some with numbers. This way I will know which are which and try to pick the best ones from each breeder. I have a goal, now if I can just stick with it. lol I will not cross these lines with any others. I've worked to hard and put to many hours into getting what I have to do such a thing. I truly feel like I've gotten a gold mine with these lines. When I get a couple of cockerels from Matt this fall, I'll be pretty well set with the Mohawks also. LOVE THESE REDS. ha,ha
Jim

 

[immyjay54]

LOL Bob is stirring the pot here huh, yes it is a good idea to show the people the real thing compared to an aftermarket reproduction of something.

Kinda like a genuine GM fender compared to J.C.Whitneys version, huh Walt?, They sorta look the part and will fit but one sure takes a lot more work to get it in the right place than the other. LOL

Jeff

Hey Jeff, it's okay to stir the pot, just have to have a ladle with a very long handle on it. ha,ha
Jim

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: Jeff that is a great comparison of the two differ net chickens. One day I was down on Mobile Bay at a park and i had my German Sheppard trying to be dog with me. I looked up the street and here comes down this good looking lady and her German Shepard Dog on a leash. My dog went up to great her and her dog. This German Shepard was so true to breed he could be on a cover of a book on how to raise German Shepard dogs. I wish I had a camera to take the picture of the two dogs two show the difference. I love my cross breed dog just like the folks love their Cherry Eggs but to call my dog a German Shepard would be a crime. He is a great dog and I had three Regerestered dogs all ready in my life I just felt its time to help out the Curr dogs at the animal shelters and keep on raising pure breed chickens. The money I save on vet bills helps pay the chickens each year.

 

[Chris09]

Bob,

I look at it like this,
When comparing the Rhode Island Red to a "Cherry Egger" its like comparing a Arabian Horse to a Quarter Horse.
Do you want a breed that quick out of the box but peters out quickly or do you want a breed that may start out a little slower but is in it for the long hall.

The Rhode Island Red is that Arabian Horse, it is in it for that long hall. The breed will put eggs on the table long after the Cherry Egger is burned out.
Also the Red is much like that Arabian Horse because both are a versatile breed that has been used to refine other breeds.

Now mean now disrespect to the Quarter Horse it a great breed, I was just using it as a breed to compare by.



Chris

 

[catdaddyfro]

LOL Bob is stirring the pot here huh, yes it is a good idea to show the people the real thing compared to an aftermarket reproduction of something.

Kinda like a genuine GM fender compared to J.C.Whitneys version, huh Walt?, They sorta look the part and will fit but one sure takes a lot more work to get it in the right place than the other. LOL

Jeff

Hey Jeff, it's okay to stir the pot, just have to have a ladle with a very long handle on it. ha,ha
Jim

 

[Robert Blosl]

A decade in the making, a more flavorful breed has emerged to help Florida growers shed their reputation for rock-hard, tasteless tomatoes.
Say hello to the Tasti-Lee, a tomato cooked up in a University of Florida research lab in rural Hillsborough County that debuted last week at Publix Super Markets.
It's a crossbreed designed to give Florida growers, who sell three-quarters of their crop to fast-food restaurants or to be chopped into products like salsa or sauce, a way to get in the premium tomato business they ceded long ago.
"Too many premium tomatoes today have a sour, acidic taste, so I balanced Tasti-Lee with a sweetness that tested very well" with aficionados, said Jay Scott, the 62-year-old horticulturist who wed two strains of tomatoes never sold commercially to create the new hybrid. "Plus it's naturally crimson."
Unlike a genetically modified Florida tomato that Monsanto Co. abandoned in the lab years ago because it turned to mush too quickly, Tasti-Lee was not created by DNA gene splicing. It was crossbred the old-fashioned way, like flowering plants.
Tasti-Lee is named after Scott's mother-in-law, a tomato fancier from Spring Hill who encouraged him to tackle the job and got a taste of the results before dying in 2006.
It took him five years to select and refine the breed pair, two more years to assemble and test enough seeds and almost three more years to rustle up enough growers and retailers to launch the new tomato.
After a stalled run in 16 Whole Foods stores in Florida, Tasti-Lee was sold successfully at HEB Foods in Texas before Publix put them in all 1,100 of its stores in fives states.
"We're selling at lot of them," said Shannon Patten, spokeswoman for Lakeland-based Publix, which signed a three-year exclusive deal to sell Tasti-Lees in Florida.
Except for some pricey Ugly Ripe heirloom tomatoes and a few vine-ripe varieties, Florida growers — who create virtually all the nation's winter tomato crop — stick almost exclusively with varieties bred for long shelf life. They're picked green and as hard as Grannie Smith apples to endure the rough handling of long distance trucking. They are gassed to ripen to pink, while vine ripened tomatoes spend more time in the field.
Tasti-Lee gives up a week of shelf life in the swap for better taste and denser flesh.
"We're hoping to persuade more growers to switch to more flavor and give up the gas," said Greg Styers, a sales and product development manager for Bejo Seeds, the Dutch company that owns the license.
Bay area grocers once thought shoppers would never pay more than $1.50 a pound for fresh tomatoes. Then in the mid 1990s some savvy field gleaners in Plant City got $2.70 a pound from Winn-Dixie shoppers for tomatoes that growers thought were too ripe to harvest so they gave them away.
Grocers noticed. As Americans learned to expect better-tasting tomatoes year-round, a market developed for premium vine-ripened or hot house tomatoes imported from Canada, Mexico and Holland that commonly fetch $1.99 to $3.50 a pound. Publix prices Tasti-Lees at $2.49 a pound.
The current crop is coming from growers who have bay area operations but have active fields this time of year in Georgia and Alabama. By November, when the first crops are picked in Central Florida, at least three growers will be producing vine ripened Tasti-Lees in Ruskin.
As for Scott, he's "about to pinch" himself over the early market reception to Tasti-Lee, but turning to other projects.
That includes an even more rugged type of tomato for growers who want to stick with picking tomatoes green but face a migrant worker pay dispute. At least four years away, the new strain would be suited for machine picking.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/busine...lee-tomato-hits-publixs-produce-aisle/1186149

There are items that may be hybreds that come out very well may I suggest the Tasty Lee tom ato that you can buy at Public grocerie stores in the south. Outstanding taste like some of the ones grandma had years ago. My wife and i just had a Beaf steak tomato and it was not as good as Tasti lee tomato . Read how Mr. Scott went about making this tomato the years of work he put into it. This is the secret to also breeding a great Old Fashion Chicken. Its Passion for the breed and the cause and that is why so few ever make it over ten to twetny years. Well got to go to work see you tomorrow my red chicks are looking forward to thier free range pens and get off the wire that they been raised on. bob

 

[catdaddyfro]

Bob,

I look at it like this,
When comparing the Rhode Island Red to a "Cherry Egger" its like comparing a Arabian Horse to a Quarter Horse.
Do you want a breed that quick out of the box but peters out quickly or do you want a breed that may start out a little slower but is in it for the long hall.

The Rhode Island Red is that Arabian Horse, it is in it for that long hall. The breed will put eggs on the table long after the Cherry Egger is burned out.
Also the Red is much like that Arabian Horse because both are a versatile breed that has been used to refine other breeds.

Now mean now disrespect to the Quarter Horse it a great breed, I was just using it as a breed to compare by.



Chris

good comparison there too Chris and no disrespect to QH taken here either, it was phrased just right.

And Bob I do get where you are at on the dogs too I am an avid lover of dogs also have had quite a few in my years too, I have 3 Catahoulas now. They are not registered(not expensive) so to say, but they are just as good esp. for what they are USED for. I have them, for a purpose and they do an excellent job of it too. I do spend the money on the vet bills and stuff for my female as she will be the propagator of my next bunch of LGDs for sure so she gets all the bells and whistles shined up along with yearly check-ups and the right meds and preventatives and stuff. The 2 males well they just are here(I do de-worm them reg and feed them too good) and do fine never a sniffle or sneeze or nothing from them as they are too mean and ornery to get ill/sick or anything. I'm sure they will outlive the female despite all the efforts to take great care of her but I do LOVE her and I just like them is the main differences. LOL

 

[Robert Blosl]

Great comparsions on the horses. At work last night to people told me ty got new pupies. ONe drove to Memphis and paid 600 bucks for one and another ^50 and drove to Layafette La for a Husky. Both will be true to breed great looking dogs.

Thank goodness we still have a few people who have Rhode Island Reds that we can get a start from. I guess if you get ten chicks for ten bucks a bird that is a steal compaired to buying a dog.
Is there many people on this board who have Red Bantams?

This seems to be gong down hill maybe its lack of interest becasue of the new type that has poped up and turned off alot of people.

bob

 

[Robert Blosl]

http://books.google.com/books?id=wL...Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Rhode island reds&f=false

Found a old book on the net to look at it is in the 1909 area of time. Saw a page of Rhode island reds and I thought about a guy who said he was going to cross some Rhode island reds from someone I have never heard of onto the Florida strain of Mohawk. He says it will help all the problems with fertility and hatchability. What he will end up with is chickens like these. What a crazy idea when we all ready have chicks that are half Illinois and half Florida on the ground to use in crosses.
Enjoy the book.