The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[immyjay54]

Jim,
Most all my animals like pumpkin, I was able to get about 6 to 7 hundred pounds of pumpkin for free this year and I've been feeding it about everyday to the chickens and goats.

Chris

A friend of mine that rides to church had some sitting around their house for Halloween so when I saw them I told her if they were going to throw them away to let me know and I would give them to the chickens. She gave them to me and the chickens love them.
It's nice to give them treats since they are so nice to give me eggs. lol Nothing like the fresh eggs after they eat scraps, grass,bugs etc. Folks that have never had them don't know what they are missing. Oh my yes, I imagine your goats really dive into them. lol I don't have anything anymore but the chickens and 3 little dogs. When we left the farm, we had 84 head of beef cattle and 165 head of hogs. And of course a flock of chickens that kept the manure piles loosened up. ha,ha Now those were some good eggs.
Jim

 

[Chris09]

Now that winter is starting to set in I bed my chicken pens with a layer of goat manure with straw on top and the chickens in no time are down to the manure picking through it. Chickens are drawn to manure like flies. lol

Chris

 

[Robert Blosl]

Mine like horse manure. Old Fighting cock trick. Chris your female in the top picture in the middle has one of the best top lines I have seen in a long time. Notice from the neck , flat as can be with the correct symmetrical lift just like the standard shows thats the black and white standard as thats the only one I look at..

Do you have any rose comb pictures? got a lady who wants some. bob

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6129933/breeds/

found some pictures of the common red that thousands own. Notice from the chick age to adult hood the color of the beak and the down color to adult feathers. These are the classic egg laying strain of reds. None better hope to have some cherry eggers one day when I grow up. Untill then I will just have to keep these rare dark reds.

 

[Robert Blosl]

History of the Rhode Island Red Club Hall of Fame
By Robert Blosl​

The Rhode Island Red Club is rich in history and tradition since it’s beginning on the cold blizzard of a day in 1898 at Coffee Tavern in Falls Rivers, Mass. During this meeting an interested group of Poultry men started the Rhode Island Red Club of America. At this meeting, much was discussed such as what this new breed of chicken called the Rhode Island Red should look like and its purpose on earth to provide large number of eggs, a useful meat chicken and should be beautiful to the people who raise them. Also, they tried to put together strict standards for members of the Club. In the beginning, a new set of Bylaws was drawn up that would guide the future leaders of the Red Club in their decisions to make the Red Club prosper as well as this new breed of poultry.
In their wildest dreams, the new charter members did not realize that they would produce such an overwhelming interest in a new breed of fowl that would in just twenty years produce over 5000 members for the Red Club and a breed newsletter called The Rhode Island Red Journal that
would be circulated with over 45,000 issues each month. With this large number of members of the Rhode Island Red Club, you would have to believe a few hundred special hard working, outstanding breeders, great prolific writers, judges and over all booster should be honored in some way or manner for their hard work and efforts.
It was in the early 1950s that a group of Red Club officers and members considered a type of Hall of Fame similar to the National Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio to honor past members who stood out over time as members of the Red Club. Ernie Jones, the current Red Club Secretary along with Charlie Naugle, Maurice Delano, Rev. John Melchart, Harold Tompkins, Dr. A J Greve and, C M Terry moved forward to put together a committee to find just the cream of the crop of members from 1898 to that time of 1954. They choose Dr. A J Greve from Ohio to chair this historic committee and to select from a list of 100 members the first class of Rhode Island Red Club Hall of Fame.
The criteria that the Hall of Fame Committee used to locate the top members in good standing with the Club for at least ten years or more, made substantial contributions in the area of breeding, exhibiting and general club works. From the list of 100 members with which Dr. Greve started, he proposed the list to the committee for their selection and they voted on 20 Red Club members for the year 1955. The list of members are as follows: original charter members from the first meeting in 1898 Daniel P Shove first President, John Crowther, first Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. H B Aldrich and Vernon L Stafford, then Robert C Tuttle, I W Bean, John L Payne, Harold Tompkins, Arthur O Shilling, Maurice F Delano, C M Bryant, Philip Caswell, Herbert M Tucker, E G Jones, Mrs. Donald Donaldson, Edward L Pricket, Lester Tompkins, WH Card, James W Simmons and A G Studier.
Then in 1956 a new committee selected another group Hall of Fame members and leading the list was the committee Hall of Fame Chairman Dr. A.J. Greve, Charles A. Naugle Emily Mahood, Len Rawnsley, SM Hannah, W A Dickinson, and Helen Dow Whitaker. In 1957, the class got a little smaller choosing C P Scott, Phil M Ferry, Dr. H R Riddell, F H Staverman and Ralph Knickerbocker. Mrs. Pearl M Daniels lead off the 1958 class with Paul S Wool ever, Pearl M. Daniels, W Fred Fetterly, Rev John Melchert and O R Ernst.1959 revealed W T Brooker, Leslie E Powers, W G McMartin, Kenneth E Bowles and C M Terry.1960 found William E Hunt and Mark Ludwig installed to the Hall of Fame. Then the following year Franklin J Young and Fred C Rubish made the list. R. Paul Webb and David R. Ward made the 1962 list. Then in 1963 it was awarded to Aldon J Wilkie and Maurice C Wallace. In 1964 Charles R Sowers
and Wally Besuden where chosen with Floyd D Wallace and Arthur Burke in 1965. Eugene A Girard and George Underwood were the two candidates picked for 1966. In 1967, J Raymond Hurley and Michael Goosk, Jr. made the list. In 1968, R.O. Forbes and Roy D. Brown were inducted. In 1967, Goldie Barnett, Wilber D. Cook, Joseph L. Hemmel and Perrin M. Johnson were inducted. In 1970, H. J. "Harry" Hutton, Paul E. Palmer, R. H. Purves and Carl Ruud were inducted. In 1971, Richard Gee, Wm. A. Matetzschk, R. L. Dormandy and Paul Zawadzke were inducted. In 1972, T. L. Ricksecker. E. Billings Miner and Morgan Craven were inducted. In 1973, Lila C. Miner and S. N. Allen were inducted. In 1974, C. L. Sibley and Al Hansen were inducted. In 1975, Ray Singer was inducted. In 1976, Tom McLaughlin was inducted. In 1977, Lois Elmes, Phillip Cornelius and Wm. J. Knecht were inducted. In 1978, E.W. Reese, Jr., Lee Roy Jones and Richard Elmes were inducted. In 1979, M.W. (Buddie) Day and James O. Lord were inducted. In 1980, H.H. Andrews and Emmett K. Rachels were inducted. In 1981, George Bishop and Rolland Blockberger were inducted. In 1982, C. H. Cely was inducted. In 1983, no inductees. In 1984, Dr. John E. Butler was inducted. In 1985, no inductees. In 1986, Grant Malone was inducted. In 1987, Howard Kendall was inducted. In 1988, no inductees. In 1989, Dr. Thomas A. Clements was inducted. In 1994, Freely Doss, Rupert Miller, Dennis Myers, Nita Rachels, Adrian Rademacher and Byron "Rip" Stalvey were inducted. In 1999, Larry Lawrence, Vern Sorenson and John Staverman were inducted. In 2001, Lloyd Flanagan, David Bell and Mrs. Juanita Gee were inducted.
I hope the names that I have mentioned come to your attention and you may recognize some of these names of past elected Hall of Fame members. If you have purchased the three sets of Classic Rhode Island Red Club articles that the Club is selling, many of these peoples are among this most prestige’s list of Hall of Fame members who shared their secrets of breeding, growing, conditioning and judging RI Reds for you to read and learn from.
In closing, I wanted to give you some general idea of the importance of our Rhode Island Red Club Hall of Fame to our past, present and future. Of all the Hall of Fames that I have studied, the members who are selected are carefully screened for their performance to their craft, sport or trade. In most organizations a committee recommends to the board their selections and that is just how a Salesmen, Football Player, Baseball Player or Fancier gets in to their Hall of Fames. Presently, you as a member of the Rhode Island Red Club can earn your place into the Red Club Hall of Fame by being nominated and chosen by your peers and, in my opinion, the method that Dr Greve designed for us in 1954 is without a doubt the most prestigious method that can be used.



Howard Kendall of Kansas was the owner of the Rose Comb Red Large Fowl and Bantams that Duanne Urch got thirty years ago. Charlie this is the answer you asked me. Finnaly found it.

Dont know if there will ever be any one ever put into the hall of fame. The Red Club is like a boat stuck in the water with out a motor. Hopefully, some of you younger people can get into the leadership roll and get the motor started again.

 

[Chris09]

Mine like horse manure. Old Fighting cock trick. Chris your female in the top picture in the middle has one of the best top lines I have seen in a long time. Notice from the neck , flat as can be with the correct symmetrical lift just like the standard shows thats the black and white standard as thats the only one I look at..

Do you have any rose comb pictures? got a lady who wants some. bob

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6129933/breeds/

found some pictures of the common red that thousands own. Notice from the chick age to adult hood the color of the beak and the down color to adult feathers. These are the classic egg laying strain of reds. None better hope to have some cherry eggers one day when I grow up. Untill then I will just have to keep these rare dark reds.

Hi Bob,
Thank you for the compliment,
I started out using horse manure but with more and more people get rid of there horses around here do to high hay prices it's getting had to come by.
The hen in the top picture is 90% Denny Myers stock and is one of my better hen and she really likes to show herself off which is a good thing at a show, now I think it's the rose comb hen in the second picture that has her foot on the pumpkin, she has a good long flat back and good tail angle also but she will not show herself off at all.
Maybe by the time my kids are ready to show I will have some nice Red they can pick from.

As of now I have no extra hens to part with I wish I did.

Chris

 

[Chris Herzog]

Chris09,
Nice looking birds. I'm wondering, about what age were they when these pics were taken? I also like the bird that Bob pointed out!!

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Chris09]

Chris09,
Nice looking birds. I'm wondering, about what age were they when these pics were taken? I also like the bird that Bob pointed out!!

Thanks,
Chris

Most of the birds in the pictures are 2 to 4 years old, the dark single comb is a 3 year old.

Chris

 

[sgribble]

Congratulations to Matt1616 for winning best of breed, champion american, champion large fowl and super grand champion of the show at the Inverness FL show
with a large fowl RIR Mohawk cockerel.

 

[bayocum]

... The Red Club is like a boat stuck in the water with out a motor. Hopefully, some of you younger people can get into the leadership roll and get the motor started again.

What is the current status of the club? It looks like no one has been on the site since 2010. Any thoughts?

 

[catdaddyfro]

Congratulations to Matt1616 for winning best of breed, champion american, champion large fowl and super grand champion of the show at the Inverness FL show
with a large fowl RIR Mohawk cockerel.

That's cool, boy he tore it up down there huh.

good job Matt

I know you work hard for it too.

Got pics anyone?

Jeff