The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[immyjay54]

I can hardly wait to have birds like those running around here. It will be 6 - 7 months to wait. On Monday I met with Jim Heinz and picked up 14 lil underwoods for myself. I know this is the wrong time of year to be raising chicks for ideal growth, but the situation presented itself and I jumped on it. I have to agree with you that Jim is a very nice person to deal with. Everyone keep posting your photos and comments and asking questions......now more than ever I have so very much to learn. Thanks again Jim Heinz and everyone else on the HRIR thread for helping all us new people out.

Don't know if you've ever been on my web site or not but there is an awful lot of information on there about all the RIR's not just Underwoods. There are pages of just information that will help you out a lot. I hatched a few out for a friend of mine that he is picking up Sunday. I'm going to put a few more eggs in my bator this evening for myself. But I can keep them in my basement for a few months and it is really cool down in there. I really like all my reds but I will have to say that this group of birds are a little special to me. I tried for over 2 years to find out how to get them and when I finally did, believe me, they had the absolute best feed and care that I could ever give them. I had never babied anything like this dozen Underwood birds and I will say that I can see a difference in temperament, feather quality, size etc.
With setting these eggs now, by time they are big enough to go outside, it will be cold weather here. lol
Jim

 

[catdaddyfro]

I'll tell you one thing Ron, we sure do agree on that (long keel) and boy do most of these girls have them. lol These birds really seem to mature pretty quickly. Thanks so much for your comment.
Jim

They are some stocky looking reds I like that too. not gangly and lanky looks like they got "muskels"
LOL

Jeff

 

[immyjay54]

They are some stocky looking reds I like that too. not gangly and lanky looks like they got "muskels"
LOL

Jeff

Yes sir Poop deck Pappy, lol They get their spinach. What is so funny Jeff I never thought I'd like the RC Reds. There is just something about a big cock bird with the nice fire red SC sticking up on his head but I tell you with the build on these RC's I like them just as well. I really don't remember them going through that really gangly stage. If they did, it didn't last to long. I will have to go through some of my pictures. lol
Oh, I really do know that that is Popeye's picture. ha,ha,ha.
Great hearing from you Jeff
Jim

 

[debs_flock]

When my son was in 4H, I bought a batch of SC RIR chicks for him. I found the ad for them listed in the back of the Poultry Press, this would have been around 1990 (so 23 years ago). The chicks were shipped to us, but I don't remember who I bought them from. All I can remember is the tag line in the ad was "None better".

Anyone know who's line that might have been?

He ended up losing all his poultry in a dog attack in 1996, he decided to not continue with poultry at the time since he was nearly too old for 4H and I couldn't afford (as a single mom) to make his pens dog proof.

I remember after he raised those birds and started to show them, the "old-timers" at the shows would cluster in front of his cages to look at his birds.

I wish I still had them, now that I'm raising RIR!

 

[melroseladi]

I love, love, love my Rose Comb Reds. I can't wait to have a nice big flock of them. Tanker is a hoot especially when he is getting caught trying to steal the hens from my free-ranging Rooster, Roo (my grandkids named him). Tanker can still outrun Roo but I just don't see that happening much longer. Tanker is getting bolder and bolder going into Roo's "territory". Roo has been pretty tolerant of Tanker so far and has only chased Tanker off without actually getting physical.

I think you can see the hollow spots in Tanker's comb, which is what I am going to be working on.




Penny

 

[BGMatt]

SC RC SC RC seem just when I snap the pic, they move. lol

I gotta stop reading this thread when y'all post pictures like that. Makes me want some of those Red chickens and they ain't even got feathers on their feet! Beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Matt1616]

When my son was in 4H, I bought a batch of SC RIR chicks for him.  I found the ad for them listed in the back of the Poultry Press, this would have been around 1990 (so 23 years ago).  The chicks were shipped to us, but I don't remember who I bought them from.  All I can remember is the tag line in the ad was "None better".

Anyone know who's line that might have been?

He ended up losing all his poultry in a dog attack in 1996, he decided to not continue with poultry at the time since he was nearly too old for 4H and I couldn't afford (as a single mom) to make his pens dog proof.

I remember after he raised those birds and started to show them, the "old-timers" at the shows would cluster in front of his cages to look at his birds.

I wish I still had them, now that I'm raising RIR!

Do you remember what part of the country the person lived in?

Matt

 

[Eggcessive]

Anyone else here subscribe to the backyard poultry magazine?

I always come home with 3 or 4 poultry magazines from Tractor Supply every time I buy feed. My favorite is Practical Poultry. It has some good interesting articles, a bit more authentic and accurate than Backyard Poultry and Chickens which seem like they are written by newbies sometime. I'm hoping to get a subscription to The Poultry Press soon. I wish there was more written on the web by university poultry departments. I can't seem to get enough information when I am looking things up--the most references you see on the web are BYC posts, and that sometimes is scarey. The people with the real knowledge and experience don't post a whole lot. I suppose that is why I have become addicted to this and the Heritage Large Fowl threads.

 

[redrstr29]

Jimmyjay Those are AMMMMMMMAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZing looking birds......Stunning!!!!!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: I really don't, I wish I did. It was an "old-timer" then. I remember having the birds shipped across country, so it would have been from anywhere "in the middle" to the east since I've always been in CA. The birds were big, solid, so dark red they appeared black and beautiful type.

I was always a believer in getting your child the best breeding stock you could find/afford. If they go to the shows and keep losing, they lose interest.

Just wish we could have kept up the line. He had lots of chickens and waterfowl (all Holderreads). Then we moved and the next door neighbor let their dogs run loose. They broke into his pens two months after we moved in and killed every single bird on Christmas day while we were at family for the day.