Thanks Chris,
Don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I have put out game cams for years and never worried about the scent but maybe the critters are getting too smart since all this is happening. I'll get some tomorrow.
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Don't know why I didn't think of it myself. I have put out game cams for years and never worried about the scent but maybe the critters are getting too smart since all this is happening. I'll get some tomorrow.
You could wear latex gloves when you're handling the camera. I have a friend in Maine who uses a game camera for viewing bears. He never worried about the scent. he put marshmallows in a garbage type can with a lid of some type on it. I know the bears had to work some for the marshmallows but they finally would get to them
Some animals like the ones in the canine family can get real leery about the smell of humans. When ever I put my cams up I always spray scent killer on them. You would be surprised how much more activity you get when the scent of a human isn't around.
Chris
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I was trying to be polite and suggest that instead of diverting a thread about Heritage Rhode Island Reds into several days of predator control methods, that perhaps a thoughtful person would like to instead go to a more appropriate thread.
I have a couple of lines of RIR's, would you expect that one would appreciate me using, let's say, " Better Bird Health Thread" to discuss the standard of Heritage Rhodes Islands and their feather color just because one of my birds had mites?
I didn't mean to demean those who had posted what I thought were unrelated posts, I meant to appeal to their courtesy.
I have a couple of lines of RIR's, would you expect that one would appreciate me using, let's say, " Better Bird Health Thread" to discuss the standard of Heritage Rhodes Islands and their feather color just because one of my birds had mites?
I didn't mean to demean those who had posted what I thought were unrelated posts, I meant to appeal to their courtesy.
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Here is a quote of post #1. This gives the purpose of this thread. Bob's intent was to discuss the Heritage Rhode Island Red as is presented in the Standard of Perfection. It is always better to start a new thread under the proper forum on issues that are off topic of what the thread starter stated. There are many topics that are poultry general. Predators is one of them. Off topics should be posted under the correct topic in the forum, so others can easily find it.
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After two days of thinking of how I would start a new thread I came up with this title the Official Heritage Rhode Island Red Site.
This site is going to be different than any thread ever put on this web site under the name of Rhode Island Reds. This site will start off with a picture of a simbel that many of you have never seen. It is in a small city in Rhode Island and it is a simbel of our beloved Heritage Rhode Island Reds from the mid 1920s called the RHode Island Red Monument. The Rhode Island Red that was farmed and started in Rhode Island and is the State bird of Rhode Island. At one time when this monument was first built and placed on this site there were 5000 Rhode Island Red Club members and over 45,000 subscribers to the Rhode Island Red Journal which was the newsletter of the Rhode Island Red and the Rhode Island Red Club of America. Now how many Rhode Island Reds where alive in this time period maybe a half a million.
Today the Rhode Island Red large fowl with the single comb is a very rare breed of poultry. Maybe during the months of January and February you might be able to count 200 adult birds and during the summer months maybe there will be a thousand in the USA. That is very rare.
The Rose Comb Rhode Island Red which is the same bird for type and color as the Singe Comb may have only about 50 during the winter months. They are not all gone but so scarce.
These Rhode Island Reds which I am talking about are not the kind you buy in a feed store or order from most common Hatchery Catalogs. These are called Production Reds. They are not breed to the Standard of Perfection and if they were entered in a poultry show a judge would have to disqualify most of the birds entered. Many call them Rhode Island Reds but they are far from the breed that was invented in the 1850s and that where once the number one popular breed in the country if not the world.
So with that said, I will try to steer this thread on the old fashion dark dark feathered Rhode Island Red that has a brick shape which is unique to the breed. If you come on here and post a picture of your production reds that is ok, but those who will learn what they really look like will refresh their minds in what I am trying to demonstrate and teach to you. I am not going to try to convert you from production reds to the Heritage Rhode Island Reds. However, there is about 1% out there who want the real true to breed Standard Rhode Island Reds.
In this thread we will try to help you get started with them if you really want to breed them and then try to teach you how to breed these rare birds for color and breed type. Its not that hard to do. There is just laws in breeding you have to follow and if you do what has been passed down by our old timers the masters you in time will reach success.
I will now post a few pictures of some of my favorite pictures I have been sent this year and then as this thread develops I will get you in touch with the few master breeders to try to help you locate them and get started this fall. If you have the old fashion dark brick shaped Rhode Island Reds please post your pictures for us or tell us stories of someone you may have know who once had this old time breed. We had such success with the Heritage Large Fowl Site I thought I would try to introduce you to the Real Rhode Island Reds that a few of us have breed over the last twenty years. Bob
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I agree with the following: it seems to often happen here that a thread is diverted to a completely new topic rather than someone starting a thread related to the new topic. Since the intention of this thread was discussion of Rhode Island Red breeding I don't see how changing it to a discussion of dealing with preditors is "keeping the thread alive". Seems more like killing the thread to me.
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I personally do not have any RIR. I prefer Orpingtons. However, I have 4H friends that do have RIR and I try to learn all I can to help them.
Most poultry keeping is the same for all breeds and types. Commercial poultry keeping is not that different than hobby poultry keeping. Feed, water, shelter etc. Its all similar. Hatching, fertility etc is similar. But breed breeding is distinct. Hatchery RIR are different than the Standard of Perfection type. We recently inherited 4 "production" RIR hens. My wife has them in her pen of assorted breeds laying hens. This includes Australorps, Orpingtons, Marans and the Reds. Culls by most exhibition standards. Yet, they get the same feed, water and shelter as our Exhibition Orpingtons.
This thread is for the Heritage SOP Type Rhode Island Reds. An example from page #1 of this thread:
Most poultry keeping is the same for all breeds and types. Commercial poultry keeping is not that different than hobby poultry keeping. Feed, water, shelter etc. Its all similar. Hatching, fertility etc is similar. But breed breeding is distinct. Hatchery RIR are different than the Standard of Perfection type. We recently inherited 4 "production" RIR hens. My wife has them in her pen of assorted breeds laying hens. This includes Australorps, Orpingtons, Marans and the Reds. Culls by most exhibition standards. Yet, they get the same feed, water and shelter as our Exhibition Orpingtons.
This thread is for the Heritage SOP Type Rhode Island Reds. An example from page #1 of this thread:
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Note: A great way to keep a thread alive is to go back to a really good post about the thread topic, click quote and make a comment about that quote. Or just give a smilie like this:
nevermind......life is too short to argue with people i have never even met.
i changed my smilie
HFF-really -here is a smilie
BTW-i DO raise SQ reds.
i changed my smilie
HFF-really -here is a smilie
BTW-i DO raise SQ reds.
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