The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[immyjay54]

Hello everyone I hope yall don't mind my questions. What are the pros, cons of the line dick hortsman has in the single comb, and rose comb Rhode Island reds. Would they be good starter birds, thanks.
Redroo

If you go on my site and pull up the Kittle page, you will see where Dick's SC Reds came from. He has done a lot of work with them because they definitely do look a whole lot better then what I had. I gave up on them very quickly. They lay super good, as well as any hatchery bird but had pinched tails and some other problems that I won't go into. Mine did not come from Dick though. As for the RC, if you go to his site or read back through this thread just a week or so ago, you will see where his RC originated from. I just put it on here not long ago. I had his RC but I only had them a short time also. Either variety is good for starter birds and if you want to work with them I'm sure you would like them it is just that I like the Underwood history and lines better. Not knocking anyone here. Just my personal preference.

Jimmy

 

[redrooster99]

If you go on my site and pull up the Kittle page, you will see where Dick's SC Reds came from. He has done a lot of work with them because they definitely do look a whole lot better then what I had. I gave up on them very quickly. They lay super good, as well as any hatchery bird but had pinched tails and some other problems that I won't go into. Mine did not come from Dick though. As for the RC, if you go to his site or read back through this thread just a week or so ago, you will see where his RC originated from. I just put it on here not long ago.  I had his RC but I only had them a short time also. Either variety is good for starter birds and if you want to work with them I'm sure you would like them it is just that I like the Underwood history and lines better. Not knocking anyone here. Just my personal preference. 

Jimmy

Where can I get the underwood line? I wouldn't mind working with dicks birds.

 

[immyjay54]

Where can I get the underwood line? I wouldn't mind working with dicks birds.

Sent you a PM I put info on here once or twice and got chewed out for it.

Jimmy

 

[RedRidge]

If you go on my site and pull up the Kittle page, you will see where Dick's SC Reds came from. He has done a lot of work with them because they definitely do look a whole lot better then what I had. I gave up on them very quickly. They lay super good, as well as any hatchery bird but had pinched tails and some other problems that I won't go into. Mine did not come from Dick though. As for the RC, if you go to his site or read back through this thread just a week or so ago, you will see where his RC originated from. I just put it on here not long ago.  I had his RC but I only had them a short time also. Either variety is good for starter birds and if you want to work with them I'm sure you would like them it is just that I like the Underwood history and lines better. Not knocking anyone here. Just my personal preference. 

Jimmy

Where can I get the underwood line? I wouldn't mind working with dicks birds.

I have rose comb Underwood just an hour north of Chattanooga. I have 100-150 chicks on the ground from 4 different breeding pen trios but won't be parting with any until at least July. (June 9th shoulder surgery will prevent me from going thru birds until then). They should begin laying at about 26 weeks, which will be Aug and Sept.

 

[RedRidge]

I think I shared these once before, but thought I'd share another blast from the past. My great grand father bred and showed RC RIR in the first half of the 20th century until the late 40s. He had a large poultry house next door to his house in IL. His name was CF Haffey (Carl Frederick), and he can be found in many old poultry and RIR publications and fair payout records.

In 1997 we took my grandfather back to that property and took these pictures. Oh the stories he told of playing in the poultry house among other adventures. The poultry house is still there - the large concrete building which housed hundreds of RIR. And the small white house next door is still there. My grandfather, about 90 in 1997, walked right up and knocked on the door and the owner was so sweet and spent hours talking to him. The white haired man in the second pic is my grandfather and the woman is the current owner. My grandfather passed away about 10 years ago but this was a very precious memory for him. I'm glad we got a couple of pics.
You don't see many poultry houses of this size unless it's a commercial operation these days.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Hatched a few of the birds I got from Matt. They now are back in the breeding pen.


These are the pair now. This girl lays VERY well. Collect eggs for the bator 6 days and put them in on the 7th. So every Tuesday I start collecting while one batch goes in the bator. Last week I got an egg from her every day.

 

[immyjay54]

Hatched a few of the birds I got from Matt. They now are back in the breeding pen.


These are the pair now. This girl lays VERY well. Collect eggs for the bator 6 days and put them in on the 7th. So every Tuesday I start collecting while one batch goes in the bator. Last week I got an egg from her every day.

You've gotten yourself some top quality birds to start with. Matt's birds are superior to a lot of the lines that I've worked with. He is a very dedicated breeder of the RIR. Oh, and just for the record, he is sort of a nice guy. lol
Jimmy

 

[immyjay54]

I think I shared these once before, but thought I'd share another blast from the past. My great grand father bred and showed RC RIR in the first half of the 20th century until the late 40s. He had a large poultry house next door to his house in IL. His name was CF Haffey (Carl Frederick), and he can be found in many old poultry and RIR publications and fair payout records.

In 1997 we took my grandfather back to that property and took these pictures. Oh the stories he told of playing in the poultry house among other adventures. The poultry house is still there - the large concrete building which housed hundreds of RIR. And the small white house next door is still there. My grandfather, about 90 in 1997, walked right up and knocked on the door and the owner was so sweet and spent hours talking to him. The white haired man in the second pic is my grandfather and the woman is the current owner. My grandfather passed away about 10 years ago but this was a very precious memory for him. I'm glad we got a couple of pics.
You don't see many poultry houses of this size unless it's a commercial operation these days.

I remember you posting these photo's some time back and that is a wonderful story about your grand pap especially about the folks being so nice and spending so much time talking to hing to him. I'm sure that really made his day. Keep up the good work with those RC's.

Jimmy

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

I think I shared these once before, but thought I'd share another blast from the past. My great grand father bred and showed RC RIR in the first half of the 20th century until the late 40s. He had a large poultry house next door to his house in IL. His name was CF Haffey (Carl Frederick), and he can be found in many old poultry and RIR publications and fair payout records.

In 1997 we took my grandfather back to that property and took these pictures. Oh the stories he told of playing in the poultry house among other adventures. The poultry house is still there - the large concrete building which housed hundreds of RIR. And the small white house next door is still there. My grandfather, about 90 in 1997, walked right up and knocked on the door and the owner was so sweet and spent hours talking to him. The white haired man in the second pic is my grandfather and the woman is the current owner. My grandfather passed away about 10 years ago but this was a very precious memory for him. I'm glad we got a couple of pics.
You don't see many poultry houses of this size unless it's a commercial operation these days.

That is amazing ♡♡
It's odd thst you mention the year..in 93 my parents bought an old house (was originally a one room school house), and they remodeled it.. a few years later, in 97, it was the 4th of July and we were headed out the door to a cookout when a man in his 60s knocked on the door with his very elderly mom by his side. He wrote a "Back in Time" article every Sunday for our local paper and come to find out, had lived there as a child and his mom just wanted to see the house again before she passed. My dad took them both on a 'tour' , carried her out to the orchard , sent her home with some veggies out of the garden.. I think we were all crying when they left, she was so sweet..even as a teenager I knew how important it was to her. Her son wrote a small article on the history of the house that following Sunday...the Sunday after that was an article about his mom passing..she passed 4 days after visiting us that day. All I could think about was the powers at work that day. .we should have been out the door an hour before they showed up and a horse had gotten out (thst NEVER got out even if she could) and if it weren't for her, we would not have been there and she would not have gotten that final visit with the house that obviously meant a lot to her ♡♡

And I promise, no more novels about the good days..

 

[NestingHillsSC]

You've gotten yourself some top quality birds to start with. Matt's birds are superior to a lot of the lines that I've worked with. He is a very dedicated breeder of the RIR. Oh, and just for the record, he is sort of a nice guy. lol
Jimmy

Only meet him once at the Knoxville show where I got these. Seemed very nice. And the birds are very calm. He is the only cockerel I can just walk up to and pickup. When I clean the house out all the other run for there lives. This one will walk right up to you and watch what your doing. He follows me around every where.