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Robert Blosl
Rest in Peace 1947-2013
Here is a good picture of a group of chicks. There is a male chick light in color about nice o'clock. What kind is he?
Many send me pictures of ask me what they think of their H chicks and I see chicks like this. one. Normally, these are the shade of color of production reds from the feed store.
Also, the color of New Hampshire chicks at this age.
The others are dark and some of their early pen colors coming out are dark dark red.
I am putting together a article for the Rhode Island Red Club of England and need some pictures of your Reds to send to them. I also, have a article that I wrote a year ago called Rhode Island Reds the Heirloom Breed which is very much like the article I wrote a few years ago on Plymouth Rocks. I compare the H Reds in single comb, rose comb and also production reds their history and how they compare to each other.
Should also put in a few paragraphs on the Red Bantams. This article will be read by mostly back yard feed store type chicken owners. But you be surprised how many want to convert over to the Heirloom style of old fashion Rhode Island Reds. With the computers today and Goggle or Bing.com you would think people would bird dog and hunt down the folks who have the real Rhode Island Reds or even contact the Sec of the Rhode Island Red Club.
If you are taking pictures of a star male like Hollywood, try to get a good back ground and a side profile shot of his or her frame. What I need is a side profile to show the leg placement or the legs dead center on the chick. It could be a one to three month old chick.
I would like to show this style of bird with dark feathers to compare the three different type of chickens called Rhode Island Reds.
Sadly, the most popular and the largest number of chickens with the name Rhode Island Reds in the USA about this time of year is not a Rhode Island Reds. I bet there are 50,000 of them on the ground right now and every buddy is telling their friends and neighbors come on over and look at my Rhode Island Reds. Yet if these same people have R I Red bantams and you saw them they would be dark colored R I Reds. There is just not any Production Red bantams that I have seen.
Look forward to your pictures and then I will ask you for your permission to use them in my future articles I plan to write for the years.
Congratulations to you all for getting some of the Real thing. And thank you to those how shared your chicks or eggs to the newbies who wanted them.
They question is Have you sent your dues to the Rhode Island Red Club yet? They need your support. I did.
