The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Pozees]

20 week old birds.

Gorgeous!

Will try to get pics this weekend of what I have - older group is 1 Fogle cockerel and 3 Greathorse pullets, near 4 months old, younger is 4 Fogle chicks, 1 certainly a cockerel, 1 certainly a pullet, still not sure of the other 2 which I'm pretty sure will mean cockerels, almost 2 months old. I can say with certainty they are all absolutely delightful. Calm, stately, healthy, just the epitome of what any keeper would want in a chicken.

 

[catdaddyfro]

I go to this face book page for the Red Club but it just does not do anything for me. I want to learn something or get some good advice and I think this tread is the best there is on the internet. We got a good discourse going here great pictures, beginners who are getting better every day with their birds. People sharing there birds with new people just getting these nice old fashion birds.

I will go and check on them now and then but I will continue to come here and see our pictures and posts.

I tell you one thing if you go to page one and read down to this post you sure should learn a lot. bob

Yep probly more info to absorb here in these 43 hundred and some odd posts than there is to do so in a one year Education class towards earning credits in college for a human teaching degree, I'd reckon.

Jeff

 

[ChickMagnet207]

20 week old birds.

One thing that I see right away is that they don't have yellow legs. (If that's not genetic, Maybe you can fix that with adding corn to their diet) Also, They need to carry their width of back all the way back. I always try to think of a cinder block shape. I am starting to see a lot of reds that are getting that football shape. It may be because they are still young. I would like to see a few more pictures when they are closer to a year old.

 

[FOGELLY]

One thing that I see right away is that they don't have yellow legs. (If that's not genetic, Maybe you can fix that with adding corn to their diet) Also, They need to carry their width of back all the way back. I always try to think of a cinder block shape. I am starting to see a lot of reds that are getting that football shape. It may be because they are still young. I would like to see a few more pictures when they are closer to a year old.  

These birds are only 20 weeks old. They will fill out nicely and carry their width to the rear same as their parents. They are also coming out of their juvenile molt and don't have full tails. No football shaped Reds at my house.
I don't see many lines with deep yellow legs, that's to bad because yellow legs sure look good.

Thanks for the comments.

Ron

 

[NestingHillsSC]

These birds are only 20 weeks old. They will fill out nicely and carry their width to the rear same as their parents. They are also coming out of their juvenile molt and don't have full tails. No football shaped Reds at my house.

I don't see many of any lines with deep yellow legs, that's to bad because yellow legs sure look good.

Thanks for the comments.

Ron

Excuse me!!!???? Am I color blind!!

This is your line! They are even yellower in person. If that is even a word. HAHAHAHA

 

[Chris Herzog]

I posted this a few months ago...

I'm going to start adding marigold to the feed that I am feeding the birds I plan on showing to help with leg color but the chick above is just on feed with nothing added to it.

 

[RedRidge]

Strange question for those of you with HRIR... what do you use for roosts? type and size?
I am beginning to think my current roosts (large dowels) are not going to be wide enough for the HRIR.
I am in the process of fixing up their new location and am trying to determine what might be best to use for them as adults.
Since these are obviously going to be larger than my previous birds, I thought I'd ask some advice.
Thanks

 

[catdaddyfro]

I posted this a few months ago...


I'm going to start adding marigold to the feed that I am feeding the birds I plan on showing to help with leg color but the chick above is just on feed with nothing added to it.

Looks as if Chris has been photoshopping again he's getting pretty good at it too, it almost looks real huh? LOL J/K Chris you know it

Hey I wonder if that Lake Pontchatrain swamp grass down that way has anything to do with it, you know sorta like how the iodine in shrimp/shellfish turns Flamingos pink?

 

[Alaskan]

I love my 2x4 and4x4 perches.

I know a 4x4 is way overkill, but it isn't terribly expensive, and I need an 8 foot span. With a 4x4 I don't need a center support, and it never sags. Also, the top is then wide enough that I think it is more comfortable on their feet (so, no pressure spots that result in bumble foot) and the feet stay very warm underneath their belly feathers.

I do also have 2x4 perches, but they will sag after awhile if the eight foot perch doesn't have a support in the middle.

I have one other perch that is a 1x4 and a 1x2 that are attached together in a t shape. That keeps the thin 1x4 very nice and strong, and it will not warp. I haven't used this one on an eight foot span, only in four foot lengths. But I think it might work for an eight foot length.

 

[Robert Blosl]

When I started out 20 years ago I had pens ten feet wide so I got a two x four ten foot long and nailed it across the width to two posts holding up the wire. I took a sharp knife and rounded off the edges so they where round. on top where they roosted Worked good. Then I had some four x four foot houses and took a two x two long enough to go snug up against the side walls drove a nail through the wall into the middle of the roost rounded it off and they loved it.


Hope this helps.