The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Pault76]

My pullets are a little older than 6 months old and are starting to fill out and get their shoulders.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Your pullet is nice and dark, she has a flat top line she is still young. She will look very nice when she is laying her first say 20th egg or be in pink condition. She is or looks like to me a standard breed Red. Where did she come form? Do you know her blood lines or strains she came from? Do you have any males or just her? Be proud of her she is a Rhode Island Red and thank you for showing us her picture. Let us know her history to my questions. I do know one guy a meat cutter who has Rhode Island Reds in Washington State. Not many folks have Reds there anymore like they did in the 1960s. I know I was one of them. bob

 

[allmychickens]

Your pullet is nice and dark, she has a flat top line she is still young. She will look very nice when she is laying her first say 20th egg or be in pink condition. She is or looks like to me a standard breed Red. Where did she come form? Do you know her blood lines or strains she came from? Do you have any males or just her? Be proud of her she is a Rhode Island Red and thank you for showing us her picture. Let us know her history to my questions. I do know one guy a meat cutter who has Rhode Island Reds in Washington State. Not many folks have Reds there anymore like they did in the 1960s. I know I was one of them. bob

I got her from A guy selling chicks at the Monroe Washington poultry show, he said she should be good quality but didn't really give us much information, he also had Leghorns (bantam and largfowl), speckled sussex, and chanteclers. I think a few other breeds as well, i just cant remember. I didn't get her for showin or breeding but now that I know she might be worth it, I might show her a bit.

Thanks, Allmychickens

 

[bayocum]

I am glad you liked the links and on this tread is recent pictures sent going back to a long time. You can see many pictures of the dark dark dark Rhode Island Reds and these are the ones you want. I will send you a personnel message of a few people who I think can help you. Do you wish to show them or just have them to look at around the yard?...

They are just the Original Rhode Island Reds that our for fathers started for us. This tread is to educate you which are real and which are production for eggs only. bob

I have acquired some really great reading material, most of which is 40 years or older. How soon can you tell the quality of the chicks? When can you really tell their coloring? Why would a person choose the Single Comb or the Rose Comb? I really appreciate all the information.

 

[mrheinz77]

I got her from A guy selling chicks at the Monroe Washington poultry show, he said she should be good quality but didn't really give us much information, he also had Leghorns (bantam and largfowl), speckled sussex, and chanteclers. I think a few other breeds as well, i just cant remember. I didn't get her for showin or breeding but now that I know she might be worth it, I might show her a bit.

Thanks, Allmychickens

I'd be willing to bet it was Tony Albritton

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

I ordered 6 R.C. RIR Bantams from Duane Urch. I'm planning on starting out breeding them, depending how they show next year. I live on the west coast and hopefully I'll help bring high quality ones back. I know another breeder that has them here in Oregon, John Jensen. I saw some at the last show I went too, and they looked pretty nice, but I dare say they could have been better.

 

[Robert Blosl]

I have acquired some really great reading material, most of which is 40 years or older. How soon can you tell the quality of the chicks? When can you really tell their coloring? Why would a person choose the Single Comb or the Rose Comb? I really appreciate all the information.

You can tell about three to four months old if they have legs dead center, good heads, level in the back, color in the beak the darker the better , the lighter than you may not have the good R I Reds. There is a price you pay when raising poultry and that is patients and time. Sometimes you have to wait till they are five to six months old. In color the darker the down color when chicks along with the dark beaks or horn color is a pretty good method to see if you have Standard Reds. If they are light buff, orange and the beaks have little horn or black in them you can figure they are production reds. When a chick is about six weeks old the good strains have a dark color to them. You have to wait till they put on their final coat of adult feathers be for you can tell if you got good colored reds. When they are adults you can look at their quill color around the saddle or oil gland area. The best color is a dark blood almost black quill. Some are dark but have a lighter hue to the quill then the poor ones have a orange color quill.

Single Combs have always been the most popular in the country. There is more demand for them and most Reds shown are Single Comb. There is today a hand full of good large fowl Reds with Rose Combs. We have seen some pictures of some very nice ones on this tread in the past two months.

I think one reason they are not as popular is people cross them onto Single combs so much or often and they just dont have a nice Rose Comb which takes maybe five to eight years of good breeding after you cross a single comb. It seems the old timers said you get a lot of hollow type combs from the Single Comb cross the first two to four years. Then after a while they get better.

The Rose Combs are about as rare in the large fowl breeds as they comb. We need more people breeding them. Also, if you live in very cold climates you do not have to worry about your males getting frozen combs like a single comb during the cold of winter.

Hope this helps. What kind of old poultry stuff did you get?

 

[Robert Blosl]

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[Robert Blosl]

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I got a message yesterday asking what good production reds look like com paired to Rhode Island Reds. These are some excellent birds representing the type of chicken that is owned by thousands. There is a picture of chicks that come to feed stores or to your post office and I hope I can get this on here. Notice the color of the down color and the beak color. That is how you can tell the two different breeds apart in color in the beaks and down color when they hatch. Remember Rhode Island Reds from the old days 1940s are chocolate in color dark red when born and have dark horn colored beaks when born. Hope this helps some of you who are wondering what to look for when you go to the feed store or order chicks off of ebay or what ever. Very simple I think. I hope I got my point accross for you.

 

[Fred's Hens]