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I took these pictures with my cell phone in a big hurry. I came into the building to give Matt some Colombian Plymouth Rock eggs I found on the hood of my car to put in his incubator when he got home. There is the big Red Male sitting on Champion Row by the door next to the Light Brahmas female. Both where scared to death as there was at least 100 people waiting to see who was going to win the big wooden incubator for the drawing. I asked a man to lean to the right for one second and grabbed this shot. I think I got some of him in the large fowl tent on my camera and will look latter. Notice the width on another males back where the width goes even to the end of his back. I once thought a ideal male should be 7 inches wide but looking at these males I have changed my mind to 8 inches for a ten month old ckl. So if you got a two by eight laying it around the house cut it seven inches long paint it dark red lay it on top of your males back and ask yourself do I have a match.?? If not work on selecting males and females that have this even width of back. A good judge may cut you one point for this and then win you loose to a better bird he may tell you look at his back and tail from above it tapers.
That is about it for me on this show and it could not be better for me as one of my old Rhode Island Reds that I shiped to Illinois to Greg Chamness then Matt got his start two years ago came back home to the south and won real BIG at the Newnan Show. If you ever read my article on the history of the Mohawk large fowl on my web site I said I walked into a breeding pen and looked at this male and told Mr. Reese this is the best Rhode Island Red Cockerel I ever seen and he said Bob that's a six year old cock bird look at his spurs. This male is a dead ringer to that male 20 years ago. Big, long wide in back and a great all around show bird which he proved this weekend even though he has been in a breeding pen for three weeks.
There where some great Red females there as well. So glad we have two or three new breeders of R I Reds that can produce great show birds and win at big popular shows as we had at this show.
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