The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Wyandotte96]

Just got 5 bantam single comb rir one hen already molted and looks really nice but the others havent and the roo is a little to friendly with them and their tails go up higher than the one that molted, so when they molt they should look like the nice one right because the breeder said they should turn out better then the one that molted but i wanted to see what you guys think about the tail issue.



thanks,

Corey

 

[kathyinmo]

Good news RIR folks....my daughter's batam RIR pullet won the youth show at the Ohio Nationals!!! This from over 1,500 birds entered in the youth competition, so we are absolutely thrilled!

Wonderful news! You should be proud!

 

[Robert Blosl]

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Very good blog on what R I Reds should look like and the history how they got made.

I found this site looking at the group of production pullets in a field. These where not his but a great example what people get from feed stores. How can the call these R I Reds?

Matt 1616 the big boy won big Champion of the Show in Flordia way to go. Cant wait to see his picture in the poultry press. He is one of the best Mohawks I have seen in 30 years.

More wins should come for sure. bob

 

[CharlieVoda]

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.

Thanks Bob
So Norman Kardosh got his birds from Howard Kendall. This is great to know. Tim and Duane got the rosecomb rir birds both large and bantams in 1982 from Norman Kardosh and both lines have been closed ever since.

They got their lf single comb rir from Gary Gordon and the bantam single comb rir from Grant Malone these lines have also been closed for thirty some years.

I am trying to find out who Gary Gordon got his birds from I think Gary lived in Wisconsin. Common sense would be Franklin Young or Rev Melchert but I think it may have been Goldie Barnett. Will keep you posted.

I will be posting pics of the rosecomb large fowl in the near future.

I am getting about 50 rosecomb rir bantams from Duane this spring he has really nice bantams and they to are hard to find. I am hoping to get a couple of pairs or tios of nice typed birds to start my bantam program with.

Got a fellow in Iowa and two in Minnesota started with the large roescomb reds this year. I have my breeders all culled down and getting ready for old man winter. It has been a great year so far.

Chris thanks for all the help with my feed concerns. I will let you know how things are working in several months. Will send the pics in a few weeks.

Good luck with the birds
Charlie

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: Charlie glad you got my post and Howard was the editor of the Rhode Island Red Chronicle. He was a Saint. He had a print shop in Kansas and did this for the club for years free.

For you who wonder about the Red Club and the current Red Chronicle I have no clue. I was the National President for four years and we had a good thing going then we got run off by some sour members and the club has never recovered. The only hope is new young red breeders get involved and become President and Secetary and the club will recover. The Breed attracks great humans. We just need some with great computer skills. The time is not right for me to get involved. I burned my wife out for four years with the Plymouth Rock Club. So I can only help get her back on track. Go get up. bob

 

[ronott1]

I took some pictures of my Oh about 25 week old Pullets:

 

[Robert Blosl]

First look at the top females beak color is it rustic orange or horn black in color?

Next look at her leg color is is rustic white orange or dark horn colored?

Look at her eye color is it green, red bay even she is young you can see the correct eye color.

Next surface color is it rustic like a old bay horse or deep dark red?

She has it all good type. This is a real McCoy Heritage R I Red. She did not come from a feed store did she?

What line of Reds do you have?

Nice picture and another picture for you who are lurkers to this tread that want to know if you have the Real Rhode Island Reds or the so called very popular production reds or cherry eggers.

I took some pictures of my Oh about 25 week old Pullets:

 

[ronott1]

First look at the top females beak color is it rustic orange or horn black in color?

Next look at her leg color is is rustic white orange or dark horn colored?

Look at her eye color is it green, red bay even she is young you can see the correct eye color.

Next surface color is it rustic like a old bay horse or deep dark red?

She has it all good type. This is a real McCoy Heritage R I Red. She did not come from a feed store did she?

What line of Reds do you have?

Nice picture and another picture for you who are lurkers to this tread that want to know if you have the Real Rhode Island Reds or the so called very popular production reds or cherry eggers.

Quote: Yes Bob, these are the real deal from Ron Fogelly.

I walk out to visit the chickens sometimes and just stare at them. They are the most beautiful pullets! They shine in the sun and their feathers are so different from my three Cherry Eggers.

They are also creating quite a stir here in Northern Ca. One person said she had not seen RIRs like these in 30 years.

I am getting more early next year.

 

[groundpecker]

Thought i would post a pic of my Horstman reds now that is is a few months later . Disreguard the conditioning/breeding pen the are in, i got one last show in Haynesville, LA..
I hope they do well at this show, The last local fair shows they were molting and fighting for dominance, so not in such good condition. I hope they do well.

Any comments?

 

[FOGELLY]

Yes Bob, these are the real deal from Ron Fogelly.

I walk out to visit the chickens sometimes and just stare at them. They are the most beautiful pullets! They shine in the sun and their feathers are so different from my three Cherry Eggers.

They are also creating quite a stir here in Northern Ca. One person said she had not seen RIRs like these in 30 years.

I am getting more early next year.

Ron, thanks for posting your pictures. They will look even better in another 10-14 weeks.
One of my original hens is almost 4 years old and was looking pretty ragged after this summer. The other day while feeding I had to do a double take, she came out of her molt and looks fantastic again. She has started laying again and gave me 3 eggs this week and I have not even started adding light to my coop yet.
She will be back in one of the breeding pens this January with a super looking cockerel from last spring.


I look forward to sending some more your way soon.

Ron Fogle
AKA "Fogelly"