The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Irishhenman]

Here are some of my growers out in the sun today

Here is my breeding cockerel, inside for show prep.

Here is one of my hens that went broody so. I put some incubator chicks under her.

The other one of my breeding hens, looking a bit rough at the moment because of recent rain and she was only brought inside a few days ago.

 

[immyjay54]

Good afternoon/evening my friend,
Looks like you are getting something pretty nice to work with. Darren from over there keeps in touch with me all the time. I enjoy watching you guys with your birds. I know the SOP isn't the same there as it is here but you guys seem to be doing a pretty good job with your reds. One thing for sure I can say, it seems that your cock bird has really nice yellow color on his legs and they all seem to having nice feather color. I have eggs that just started hatching, got one out so far and I'm going to put these under a broody hen when they get done. Hoping she takes them okay. lol Keep up the good work.
Jim

 

[immyjay54]

Here you go. It has a sliding door on right now and later if I want to lift it off the ground, I'll just flip it and put a solid or wire bottom on it. For now if I put a hen and chicks in there I want them on the ground so they can scratch. lol I'd like to make a few more of these for next year and not use incubators, just broody hens. This is 2 foot deep, 8 feet long and about 2 1/2 feet high. Plenty big enough for a broody to raise a clutch of chicks and if I decide to use it for males over winter I can just put a divider and it should work.

 

[Born Country]

Here you go. It has a sliding door on right now and later if I want to lift it off the ground, I'll just flip it and put a solid or wire bottom on it. For now if I put a hen and chicks in there I want them on the ground so they can scratch. lol I'd like to make a few more of these for next year and not use incubators, just broody hens. This is 2 foot deep, 8 feet long and about 2 1/2 feet high. Plenty big enough for a broody to raise a clutch of chicks and if I decide to use it for males over winter I can just put a divider and it should work.

Very nice, Jim! I use my tractor pens the same way. My broody hens raise chicks in the spring and it works so well. Then in the fall, I use them for my roosters to get some fresh grass. I just got done remodeling one of my main coops and it sure takes more work than most people think. The more I build the more I need it seems!

 

[cmom]

Here you go. It has a sliding door on right now and later if I want to lift it off the ground, I'll just flip it and put a solid or wire bottom on it. For now if I put a hen and chicks in there I want them on the ground so they can scratch. lol I'd like to make a few more of these for next year and not use incubators, just broody hens. This is 2 foot deep, 8 feet long and about 2 1/2 feet high. Plenty big enough for a broody to raise a clutch of chicks and if I decide to use it for males over winter I can just put a divider and it should work.

I like it.

I did put mine up off of the ground with the wire bottom, but here in Florida I can always put hay in it. The days are nice and warm. We went from winter to summer again this year. My DH has more fittings so we can make another roll around cage to put a brooder in. One thing nice is that their poop falls through the wire so the brooder stays clean.

 

[immyjay54]

Very nice, Jim! I use my tractor pens the same way. My broody hens raise chicks in the spring and it works so well. Then in the fall, I use them for my roosters to get some fresh grass. I just got done remodeling one of my main coops and it sure takes more work than most people think. The more I build the more I need it seems!

So true. It seems that the more improvements I make, the more I want to make. lol

 

[immyjay54]

I like it.

I did put mine up off of the ground with the wire bottom, but here in Florida I can always put hay in it. The days are nice and warm. We went from winter to summer again this year. My DH has more fittings so we can make another roll around cage to put a brooder in. One thing nice is that their poop falls through the wire so the brooder stays clean.

The terrible thing with us up here cmom is that when winter comes I can't use anything with wire bottom's. The birds would freeze their feet and combs. When the weather hits 25+ below zero wind chill I can't even imagine having wire on the bottom of the coops. lol I am going to have to make some serious changes though. It is entirely to hard for me to keep all these different lines/varieties and keep them the way that I want them. I just love them all so much that I can't make up my mind which to keep and which to ship on down the road. I've helped enough folks to get a start that If I would get rid of a certain line and decide later that I wanted it again, I could always get another start from the ones I helped. lol
Jim

 

[cmom]

Quote:
We don't have the cold problem here. In the winter we do get a few nights of freezing weather but the frost is gone later in the day. I only do my breeding in the spring. I have the same problem of wanting to keep them all as I love them all so much too, but know I have to part with some. I just don't want to get rid of them too soon. I did have Buff Orpingtons. I did eventually get rid of all of the BO's. One of the young cockerels went to a young girl in 4H and she showed him and won in the juniors with him. I was proud of them. Now I'm going to stick with my Reese line and I have Horstman RC RIR but would like to eventually get some RC RIR from Gary Underwood, and my RC RIW's. I do have a few SC RIW's with a RIR male in a separate breeding pen for RSL's. I do sell them and they are very good layers also. People who just want a backyard flock just love them.

 

[forgetful]

Two week old Mohawks with a few older silkies

Not the best photos, but I wanted to share. I'm really pleased with them so far. They seem to be really solid, vigorous little guys. I just have to tell myself to be patient and not try to judge every little aspect of them for a LONG time. If I wasn't so intent on watching them grow, I'd put them with my other birds for the next ten months and not look at them until then.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: very nice. I like the sliding door too. I have tried 3 other kinds of hinged doors. Swing open from the left or right, Swing up to open and even a hinged top. The swing up to open are my least favorite.