The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[RoseMarie1]

Thank you Fred and Cmom!!!! Very pretty birds Cmom!!! I want me one of those books!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Thank you Fred and Cmom!!!! Very pretty birds Cmom!!! I want me one of those books!!

If your local library does not have one, check with your local 4-H clubs. I have one right now from a 4H club. It is very helpful. I may end up getting one of my own if it becomes popular in the club.

 

[RedRidge]

RC Underwood line

 

[Fred's Hens]

RC Underwood line

An old friend, Bill Post, aka NYreds taught me that you need to see RI Red type in the brooder. Ok, that sounds impossible, right? Not after awhile. Your eye dials it in when you breed and raise these birds for years.

Look at the cockbird in the avatar photo and then look at that chick "showin'" itself in the middle of the photo. There!!! Right there. That's type, right in the brooder. Hours old and already it is typey as can be. Look at that red brick shape and extended keel. Stories are told, (but you know how old stores go, right?) that the old timers could cull as they took the chicks out of the brooder.

Anyway, hope that helps.

 

[RedRidge]

That chick and the cockerel in the avatar have the same sire. ;-)

 

[RoseMarie1]

An old friend, Bill Post, aka NYreds taught me that you need to see RI Red type in the brooder. Ok, that sounds impossible, right? Not after awhile. Your eye dials it in when you breed and raise these birds for years.

Look at the cockbird in the avatar photo and then look at that chick "showin'" itself in the middle of the photo. There!!! Right there. That's type, right in the brooder. Hours old and already it is typey as can be. Look at that red brick shape and extended keel. Stories are told, (but you know how old stores go, right?) that the old timers could cull as they took the chicks out of the brooder.

Anyway, hope that helps.

OH WOW how cool is that! LOVE visuals like this!!

 

[RoseMarie1]

Judging from photos is risky business. However, even in this incomplete photo I can see two females with nicer wider rear sections but I can also see two females with pinched tails.

Frankly, the best advice I can give you is this. Join the APA and buy a Standard. Study the first 40 pages like your life depended on it as those 40 pages would answer 99% of the questions posed here and elsewhere online by folks trying to see quality vs faults in birds. Those pages are not breed specific, just common "stuff" all poultry folks should know. It would take 3 years of wading though various and sundry online discussions, much of which would be of little or questionable value, quite honestly, to gain what your own study of those 40 pages would give you.

Join the RIRCA, the Reds club and rub shoulder with fellow Red addicts, breeders, and exhibitors.

Finally, if you can, work with someone somewhat local to you, in a local poultry club who may have 30 years of experience in birds and have this person serve as a kind of mentor to you. This is invaluable.

If none of the above holds any interest to you, then quite honestly? Just enjoy your birds. Feed them, enjoy the eggs and have fun with them, as it really doesn't matter. Breeding, raising and exhibiting fine R I Reds, bred to the standard is a passion and a hobby that not everyone shares. That's ok too.

Personally, I'm far too addicted and I purposely choose to be.

This is what I now have time to do and I'm enjoying it beyond measure.

I am soooo glad you share like you do for folks like me so we can learn. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!

 

[RoseMarie1]

These guys can start laying any day now...ready to fire up the incubator for more than bantam eggs!

Yeah my pullets are 7 months old (19th of this month) now and not laying. I keep checking the nests for eggs but none so far. But I feel we're getting really close.

Opps not 7 like I was thinking! They're only 6 months old the 19th of this month.

 

[RoseMarie1]

SallyInIndiana........I tried to use the quote do dad but it wouldn't work for me for some reason! Anyway I did check with our library and they didn't have one. Going to see IF they can do one of the library loans for me and find it some where else.

 

[RoseMarie1]

Was out looking at some of my pullets (6 months old the 19th of this month) trying to see the brick shape in them and I think this one has it if I am understanding right.

Wanted to share some of my juvie pix to learn some stuff. She was


pecking at my shoe. lol They are very dark and for some reason the camera didn't get the true colors.





Another one although the sun washed her out a little.




This one I'm not sure about. I see the brick shape but she has a hump in the tail area.







I really like this one! TRYING to pick out some for my breeders. New to this and trying to learn.



Couldn't resist this shot even though I knew I was looking into the sun a little. All of the cockerels was in this corner so I tried getting some good shots of them other than the dots on it. lol



Not sure about this cockerel. I see a brick shape but then a U under it. ???? Is that OK? Wanting to pick out the breeders and I'm just not sure.




I dearly LOVE this ones tail but don't know if that's ok with SOP or not. Same one in the next pic.