The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

Can you put up a couple pictures of your rosecomb cockerels.
Charlie

It's raining and nasty in Georgia today but I will try to take pictures of my two male rose combs soon.They are both nice looking birds and are large.I got my rose combs from a lady in South Georgia.I bought half her flock.She had 24 birds.I was blown away with how nice these birds where.She actually let me pick the birds I wanted which was a really nice so I picked her nicest three cockrals and 9 of her nicest pullets.I sold a trio but they were the three I decided against breeding.She bought her flock about 4 years ago from Dick Hortsman . If I understand his line correctly his strain at that time of rose combs were the Radamaker line.If I am wrong any information on his line about 4 years ago would be appreciated.
 
Rhode Island Red Chicken (Non-Industrial)

The Rhode Island Red is not only America's best known breed, but is perhaps the world's best known fowl. It is the most successful dual purpose bird, and remains an excellent farm chicken. Originally developed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the 1880's and 1890's, its ancestors include Malay (hence the deep color), Shanghai, Java, and Brown Leghorn chickens. Its distinctive color and good production qualities helped it to spread rapidly. The single combed variety was admitted to the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection in 1904 and the rose combed birds were accepted a year later in 1905.


The originators of the Rhode Island Red wanted to create a bird that could lay a good number of eggs yet dress out nicely as a table bird. These birds are very good layers of brown eggs, perhaps the best layers of all of the dual-purpose breeds. They can lay 200 – 300 eggs a year starting as early as six months of age. Since the 1940's, the Rhode Island Red has been selectively bred for more efficient egg production, becoming smaller, lighter colored, and less broody as a result. Of greatest conservation interest are the "old-type" Rhode Island Reds which are larger, darker, and more broody. These birds are becoming rare as the breed is “improved” to meet industry needs.


The hens of this breed weigh over 6 pounds and the roosters over 8 pounds. The Rhode Island Red is known for its hardiness and its ability to handle marginal conditions while still producing eggs. Some roosters may be aggressive at times. Most hens are peaceful and can become broody except within the strains that have been heavily selected for egg production



bob
can any RIR historian confirm this info?
 
can any RIR historian confirm this info?
Malay -- Yes
Java -- Yes
Shanghai (Brahma) -- There is some information that state there it may have been the Royal Cochin China and not the Shanghai that was used.
Brown Leghorn -- There is a lot of confusion on if the Leghorn was used or not, most information that I have read state that the Leghorn was not used. Now there may be some Leghorn added to some lines but I don't believe that it is in the pure Rhode Island Red breed.

There is also some information out there that states that the White Wyandotte may have found its way into the Rhode Island Red.


Chris
 
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nicalandia, I'm don't think there is anyone in the world that is more of a historian of Rhode Island Reds than Robert Blosl. If you will notice he is the person that posted it. He is a former President of the Rhode Island Red Club, is in the Rhode Island Red Hall of Fame and has spent the last 40 years researching the history of the Rhode Island Red.
 
nicalandia, I'm don't think there is anyone in the world that is more of a historian of Rhode Island Reds than Robert Blosl. If you will notice he is the person that posted it. He is a former President of the Rhode Island Red Club, is in the Rhode Island Red Hall of Fame and has spent the last 40 years researching the history of the Rhode Island Red.



Quote from http://bloslspoutlryfarm.tripod.com/id29.html Even Bob posts on his own web site states that the Leghorn may not have been used.
There are a quite a few of the great Red breeder that state that they have no reason to believe that Leghorns were bred into the Red.

Chris
 
Our R.C.Reds were obtained from Tim Bowles. This was an old strain that had been around Ohio for a lot of years. We also had a trio from Rick Bonds. I did buy a pair from Adrian Radamacher but these birds were not used in our breeding pens.
 
Our R.C.Reds were obtained from Tim Bowles. This was an old strain that had been around Ohio for a lot of years. We also had a trio from Rick Bonds. I did buy a pair from Adrian Radamacher but these birds were not used in our breeding pens.

Mr. Horstman could you give a little info/whereabouts of origins of your S.C. RIR line/s also. I'm interested as I have some that I got as young chicks. They are doing well and will be ready for action here this late winter/early spring.

thanks

Jeff
 
Our R.C.Reds were obtained from Tim Bowles. This was an old strain that had been around Ohio for a lot of years. We also had a trio from Rick Bonds. I did buy a pair from Adrian Radamacher but these birds were not used in our breeding pens.

Thank you for that information Mr.Hortsman.I love the rose combs I have that came from your birds.You can see a couple of the pullets in the above pictures.They are really nice.
Thanks'
James
 
Even Bob posts on his own web site states that the Leghorn may not have been used.
There are a quite a few of the great Red breeder that state that they have no reason to believe that Leghorns were bred into the Red.

Chris


The breed origin statement in the APA Standard states Leghorns were used in the development of RI Reds. I've read that they were & read that they weren't. Unless someone was going to try to recreate the process from scratch I'm not sure why it matters.
 

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