The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Fred's Hens]

Fred... if you cull your Feb, March and April cockerels by Thanksgiving, do you narrow it down to your breeders at that time when they are only 7-9 months old or do you only use mature roos for breeders? If you use cockerels, does that mean you are more inclined to use a Feb cockerel than an April?

Heh, we're just getting started with this line of Reds. LOL
That speculative "plan" was just being brushed with very wide strokes, just a rough concept of how things may go. It will better the out years when mature birds then available.

For certain, there won't be 50 chicks hatched and most of them being wintered over the following year. But to the point of young cockerels. A cockerel hatched on April 1st is 11 months old on the following March 1st.
Yes, a January breeding pen would absolutely have a cockbird. Since we don't have a mature Red cock, we won't be doing any January matings. That's OK, because the incubator in February will be stuffed with Rock eggs anyhow.

 

[flowerchild59]

BGMatt has some good points there. You could also read The Call Of The Hen. A great old book

thanks on the tip on that book. amazon happened to have it and I bought it today for 13 bucks.

 

[sgribble]

I have a few Robert's line and a pair of Mohawk line Reds left to sell this year.Pm with any questions.

 

[RedRidge]

Thought I'd share a little family RIR history.
A few of you already know this, but I have been looking for these pictures for a few years and finally ran across them.
My great grandfather, CF Haffey, raised and showed RC RIR for most of his life in middle IL. CF stands for Charles Frederick although he went by Fred to family, but his ads in the poultry publications always said CF. In the 30s and 40s he and my great grandmother lived in Warrensburg between Decatur and Lincoln.
In 1997 their daughter (my grandma) passed away and when her husband (my grandpa) and other family went back to IL to bury her they took these pictures and spoke with the woman who now owns the house and poultry house.
Anyway... more than most folks wantesd to know but this is the poultry house where my family raised RC RIR in the 30s and 40s.

 

[har]

That is a really neat old bar. Thanks for sharing!!

Scott

 

[Rhinoman]

Cool, RedRidge. That's very cool!

 

[lualshannon]

Thought I'd share a little family RIR history.
A few of you already know this, but I have been looking for these pictures for a few years and finally ran across them.
My great grandfather, CF Haffey, raised and showed RC RIR for most of his life in middle IL. CF stands for Charles Frederick although he went by Fred to family, but his ads in the poultry publications always said CF. In the 30s and 40s he and my great grandmother lived in Warrensburg between Decatur and Lincoln.
In 1997 their daughter (my grandma) passed away and when her husband (my grandpa) and other family went back to IL to bury her they took these pictures and spoke with the woman who now owns the house and poultry house.
Anyway... more than most folks wantesd to know but this is the poultry house where my family raised RC RIR in the 30s and 40s.

Thank you for sharing your family history with RIRs. That is a very nice, and big poultry house.

Lual

 

[Rancher3535]

Love the pictures and the history behind them. I have always had a fascination for old chicken houses, barns etc. Seems like the mid-west had a lot of good old barns and chicken houses unlike us out here in the west. We have a few but very few.

 

[cmom]

Thought I'd share a little family RIR history.
A few of you already know this, but I have been looking for these pictures for a few years and finally ran across them.
My great grandfather, CF Haffey, raised and showed RC RIR for most of his life in middle IL. CF stands for Charles Frederick although he went by Fred to family, but his ads in the poultry publications always said CF. In the 30s and 40s he and my great grandmother lived in Warrensburg between Decatur and Lincoln.
In 1997 their daughter (my grandma) passed away and when her husband (my grandpa) and other family went back to IL to bury her they took these pictures and spoke with the woman who now owns the house and poultry house.
Anyway... more than most folks wantesd to know but this is the poultry house where my family raised RC RIR in the 30s and 40s.

Those pictures are wonderful and what great memories they probably bring. I would love to have a poultry barn but my DH wouldn't. I'm sure that they are passing with time except for the really commercial places.

 

[Laingcroft]

Wow. I would love to see pictures of the inside of that building. Beautiful symmetry, love the brick, big doors and bright windows under the eaves!