The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Chris09]

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I like the top male the best ( at least by the picture). The second male seems to have a short back and the third one slope up too much.

I will have to get updated/better pictures posted, I cull out for bad backs (short and sloping). This is the same Single comb but a year older and still growing and adding length to back.
Like I said to Jake this line is slow to mature and fill out including length of back.

Chris

 

[Jake Levi]

He did mature out better, looks like an improvement.

 

[Chris09]

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That is a major "downfall" with this line in that you have to hold on to them for a long time to tell if there going to be any good or not. Most of the roosters that I keep wont hit the breeding pen till there at least a year and a half to 2 years old and pullets don't start laying till there around a year old.

Chris

 

[Jake Levi]

Hi Chris

Who did they originate with?

My Ideals matured earlier then that, but then they are production htachery birds, few of the roos look like him. A couple close, they are going to local 4H'ers.

 

[Chris09]

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The ones in the pictures are a Dennis Myers (single Comb), Dick Hostman (rose comb) cross.
I started out will 1 Myers rooster and 3 Myers hens and 1 Hostman rooster and 5 Hostman hens.
As of now I have a pure Dennis Myers line of Single Combs, a pure Dick Horstman line of Rose Combs and a line that is a cross of Myers and Horstman with a little Don Nelson stock mixed in but not much about a 1/16th to a 1/8th.

If everything go's as planed we will have this line at Ohio Nationals this year.

Chris

 

[outback hatcher]

Here is the latest pic of my reds Heritage & Production right at 2 months

Just moved them from the indoor brooder to their temporary pen outside

 

[chickenguru]

Tell me any problems that you all might see with this roo. I just got him
yesterday to put with my RC hens.

 

[Jake Levi]

Thats a terrible terrible roo,

you dont want him,

crate him and send him to me.

I'll do something with his tail carriage.

Chris I keep hearing so much good about the Horstman reds that I think I want to get some .

Outback, is that six heritage reds?

 

[chickenguru]

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Oh well and I thought I was getting a half way decent breeding roo when I bought him. He is
only about 11 months old now so that puts him being the same age as the only
two hens I have been able to find down this way.
His feathers got a little ruffled on the ride home yesterday and last night. It took about
7 hours to get home after getting him and then I had to stop and get a few buckeye hens and a roo
for them from somone else. Everybody seems happy today though.

 

[Jake Levi]

I think you are going to like him and his chicks, post pics of them when you get them, really like to see what he will do for you. Looks like a big boy too.