The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[catdaddyfro]

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?

If you could post a better, more clear picture it would help out a bunch its hard to get a good read with this one if you want all the goods and bads

that is LOL
The way these look on my screen I see a lot of smuttiness a bad no, go. and I don't think this is accurate for them being Horstman RIRs he doesn't breed for black in the body feathers. and don't anybody jump up an down here on me,

I'm just using this as an example of what is showing on my screen in lieu of a poor fuzzy picture.

ronotts those girls are coming along good and fine I got some almost just about that stage right there 3 or 4 are really impressing me more and more each day. and like Ron F said too in a couple more months they will really look more awesome and I can't wait either LOL Keep us posted on their progressions I'm going to get a couple of pics here soon as my girls are finally getting their tails back in some after they all decided to have a tail feather pulling contest. It looked like they all lost/or won however the rules played out anyway they all ended up with bald rumps

Jeff
Jeff

 

[ronott1]

Quote: I was just thinking that today! Only the one has the comb and wattles getting big and the faces are just starting to redden up. The Tail feathers are also just starting to look nice.

Very exciting to see them develop.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Matt this is one of the pullets I hatched about 27 years ago. I wonder if the male that you won with last weekend has some of her traits. She was about six month old when I took this picture. Her tail came up to about 5 degrees as a hen. She produced a male very simiular to the one you won with he is one of the best males I have seen in 30 years. Hopefully we can get a picture of him soon. bob

 

[catdaddyfro]

Well I was out yesterday evening sorting and rearranging around a bit. I reached down and picked up one of my 7 mo. RIR cockerels I couldn't believe it when I picked him up, he weighed a ton it seemed, not really but I grabbed up the other one too he was just as solid and firm with the same amount of mass way more than they seem to look like as they are in the racehorse looking stage now, long and lean and it is makes an optical illusion like there's just not that much bird there. They remind me of those Good Shepard BRs now, when you get a handful of one of those dudes, you got something. These reds have the same big ol' boned body mass to them too. I was out there feeding this morning and you know I had one of those moments when you look down at the pullets and they seem to have just morphed over night? They sure are changing a lot now and getting their pretty red combs and faces so it looks like they will be getting it on here before too long (I sure hope so) PATIENCE my son,LOL

Jeff

 

[immyjay54]

Well I was out yesterday evening sorting and rearranging around a bit. I reached down and picked up one of my 7 mo. RIR cockerels I couldn't believe it when I picked him up, he weighed a ton it seemed, not really but I grabbed up the other one too he was just as solid and firm with the same amount of mass way more than they seem to look like as they are in the racehorse looking stage now, long and lean and it is makes an optical illusion like there's just not that much bird there. They remind me of those Good Shepard BRs now, when you get a handful of one of those dudes, you got something. These reds have the same big ol' boned body mass to them too. I was out there feeding this morning and you know I had one of those moments when you look down at the pullets and they seem to have just morphed over night? They sure are changing a lot now and getting their pretty red combs and faces so it looks like they will be getting it on here before too long (I sure hope so) PATIENCE my son,LOL

Jeff

Good Morning Jeff,
Your post made me think I was reading my own thoughts. lol Just a week or so ago I had one of my Mohawk pullets that seemed to have something wrong (just not acting right) and it seemed that the young cockerels were after her so I picked her up to put her in a different place away from them and it was the same thing. She felt like she weighed 5 pounds. My Mohawks are like you say. Most of them haven't gotten their tails back in after the molt. One has a nice tail coming in but most of the others are tailless. lol I don't know what happened with them. Seems that they had a tail pulling contest. I'm moving the pullets to a pen by themselves this weekend for I only have 5 pullets and there is 12 or 13 cockerels and they are starting to get after the pullets. I don't want to cull any of the cockerels for a couple of more months. Even then I may keep them all till spring but will put them somewhere by themselves. I don't want to make any big bloopers with culling the wrong birds.
Boy are these little Underwood peeps growing nicely. They are only 5 days old and really growing like bad weeds.
Good hearing from you.
Jim

 

[catdaddyfro]

Good mornin back to ya Jimmy and the rest of ya'll BYC-ers too

I'm glad those little ones are doing good for you up there in the cold north Its cold here(28*this morning bout a month too early for that crap) so I know its got to be down right cold up there.

Yes I understand the weight thing sorta esp when one of these Red pullets right at POL<(just for Walt,LOL) walks past a 2 or 3 year old cherry egger and dwarfs her or eclipses her with the shadow. LOL

Jeff

 

[monnie662]

I have a question that I have not seen before. I was reading The Mississippi Market Bulletin, can be read online if you want to read it, someone in Carthage MS has some Rose comb Rhode Island Reds for sale. Can these be hatchery Reds or the real thing? The ad does not specify.

 

[NYREDS]

I have a question that I have not seen before. I was reading The Mississippi Market Bulletin, can be read online if you want to read it, someone in Carthage MS has some Rose comb Rhode Island Reds for sale. Can these be hatchery Reds or the real thing? The ad does not specify.

Could be either one. How could anyone here answer that question with the information available?

 

[catdaddyfro]

I have a question that I have not seen before. I was reading The Mississippi Market Bulletin, can be read online if you want to read it, someone in Carthage MS has some Rose comb Rhode Island Reds for sale. Can these be hatchery Reds or the real thing? The ad does not specify.

About the only heads up I could give you is mississippifarmboy on here aka. Terry he his in Glen, MS he has "real" RC RIRs he might could give you an answer.

Jeff

 

[Robert Blosl]

Grand Sire

2012 Cockerel

I was at Matt 1616 farm last night and was looking at Mr. Mohawk or a Cockerel Matt Raised this year of his pure Illinois strain Reds he got two years ago from Greg Chamness. This is the male that won last weekend or so in Florida that was Grand Champion of one of the two shows. The judge said it was the best R I Red he ever handled. I agree he is equal to the male I handled thirty years ago at Mr. Reese's house which was the foundation of my strain as I breed from his six year old sister and her three sons.

The picture above is the grand father of this young cockerel which was sent to me by Greg Chamness a few years ago. How this all turned out about ten or so years ago I sent a Four H junior a male to show and his brother and when the males where about five years old he got out of chickens and Greg bought both males. Greg asked me how should I mate this male and I said do you have any of my old hens left that you got from me. He said I have three they are about six to eight years old. Mate him to these old females and try to get some chicks. He got about 15 chicks and the above male the grand father of this great cockerel of Matts was the best and he also got four killer pullets. From this cross of these very old old birds we got this cockerel in 2012 season and he also has a sister that I think is going to be equal to him in Quality.

So for those who wonder what True Heritage Rhode Island Reds are suppose to look like this is the color, the brick long body flat top line shape you are suppose to have to be called Rhode Island Reds. Matt also has a great male that is the brother to this male that is also very good and a half brother that has some of the best color I have seen on my old large fowl Reds in years. He also should have the brick long shape body as this cockerel but is about five weeks younger. It was just a joy for me to see my old strain of large fowl Reds back down here in the South and we will return the old traits and genes of this 100 year old strain of Mrs. Donald Donaldson's- E W Reese line in years to come.

Congratulations Matt job well done.