The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Robert Blosl]

I've read that RIR are both friendly and calm and also noisy and aggressive? Doesn't really matter, just curious

I have read that you said you have heard they are friendly and calm.

Also, you heard they are noisy and agressive.

There are two chicken groups here you are talking about.

The Heritage old style Rhode Island Red is dark brick shaped and lay about 180 eggs per year. These are Single Comb

Rose Combs I have no idea they are part of the Heritage package or old breed. There are no commerical or production type rose combs reds sold by hatcheries daily like
single comb production reds.

On the subject of aggressive this rap goes in 99% of the cases to the light colored non brick shape production or commerical reds. These are the ones that you by at the feed stores or from catalogs.
Many think that these are the Rhode Island Reds that this thread was named after.

I started this Heritage Thing to show the difference between production or commerical reds and plymouth rocks. There is a difference.

There are so few Rose Combs left in America its funny.

Any way I wanted others who read this to know there are a basically three diffent lines of chickens her we are talking about with the same breath.

You have Single Comb Rhode Island Red dark large fowl. Rose Comb Rhode Island red large fowl

The most popular is the single comb production or commerical egg laying chicken.

All three are good fowls for there needs. The ones that fit the Heritage scope or subject are the single and rose comb Rhode Island Reds. The dark ones.

I hope this clears this up. In your case the Rose Combs in the super cold north climate should not be agressive in nature. They should be Docile. bob

 

[Robert Blosl]

Never heard of such a color. Sounds like they crossed Millies bantams on a leghorn to get the color pattern some time in the past. Its funny many want to get a new color pattern added say to a breed like the leghorn to just say they did it.
Then after they get it in the standard the breed dies and there is no interest in it. This is why so many color patterns today are so unpopular.

Then you have color patterns like Partridge, Silver Penciled and even Columbian Rocks that no buddy raises because they are so difficult to maintain their shape and color. You see a pretty picture in a catalog and then you say I want some of these
then when you get them they dont measure up to the picture.

Maybe you can see why so many want to go to a non colored breed. You can win more trophies with a white chicken than a buff or partridge one.

bob

 

[mixedchickens]

Glad to see that Bob cleared up some misconceptions to these different breeds. It can be confusing at first until one has read a lot about the different breeds....thanks boib

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Quote:
Roy Autry: DeQeen Arkansas. http://www.affgoats.com/home.html

I have seen his RC RIR and they are nice. Also many other heritage breeds.

 

[Rebecky54]

Quote:
Bob, correction -- there are so few left in America it's NOT funny.

I'm glad you cleared this up about the strains and the heritage birds being docile. I'm planning to get some chicks from my ND neighbor in late April.

Becky

 

[biomistake]

Dont see how I missed that Jim... *slaps head*

 

[cowboygourmet]

Quote:
Roy Autry: DeQeen Arkansas. http://www.affgoats.com/home.html

I have seen his RC RIR and they are nice. Also many other heritage breeds.

Jim, thanks for the promo! If you keep this up you'll probably be wanting a commission! Lol We will definitely be hatching a huge abount of RIR large fowl Single comb and Rose comb chicks this season. I have quite an extensive waiting list of people that want birds already. We hope to hatch over 500 chicks. Wish me luck.
Roy

 

[biomistake]

I just want one little RC RIR cockerel

wherever that puts me on the list

 

[Robert Blosl]

I just want five old Mohwak chicks from Ill and five from Flordia. Then I should be able to cross the two lines and start all over again.

Will be more next year. Roy that sounds great.

I would like to cross one of my old Mohawks onto a rose comb and start a line of Mowhawk rose combs. Got the Mohawk bantams and that worked out well. bob

 

[Robert Blosl]

Just got off the phone with Greg Chamness of Illinois who has the old Moahawk line. He has orders for 200 chicks. The question is when he sells these chicks to the buyers what in the heck are you folks going to do with them. Every year you never see them in the Poutlry Press
or they died or they got killed by a dog or a coon ect. He only has one or two people in the country who he knows has his birds in ten years. In 23 years Greg and a young man in Flordia are the only ones who have my old line and kept them going..I was the only one that kept Mr. Reeses line going except maybe one man in Fla who may still have his line.

If you want to get into real good Rhode Island Red large fowl you must set goals to try to keep them alive and have them available the next year for chicks for your self and others who want them.

Also this Heritage Hype I started wont mean a thing if people can not raise and keep a old line of chickens alive.

Hope in the next five years we will have better results than two familys in Colorado who still have this old line a going from Greg.
No one else can clame that they have Gregs birds that I have heard of or Brian in Floridia. What a shame. bob