The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

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http://books.google.com/books?id=RB...importance of feather quality poultry&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=RB...importance of feather quality poultry&f=false


Steve this might be the best booklet I ever read on R I Reds. It was produced by Ernie Jones with the assistance of Art Schilling. The words about feather quality that he talked about changed the faddism of dark feathers and stringy feathers. They believed that they could not produce a dark R I Red unless it had stringing birds. We proved them wrong as if you look today we have the color and the correct webbing on our Reds.

Save this site as a favorite and or print it out and read it often. bob


Steve look down in the book on the pictures that Schilling posted and look at A and B large fowl male that Lester Tompkins used to develop their line.

Maybe the good male that we have seen win in the past three months his long tail is a trait from these old birds. The last bird Mrs. Donaldson got in 1954 was from Harold Tompkins and maybe this weird tail that popped out of no where is from a old bird like this. I still think this can be breed out if you find the right females to compensate the mating. We shall see. bob

Thanks Bob I will read this soon and save it.

 

[wayne harris]

here is hen #1. let me know the good and the bad on her. I'm wondering on the colour of her

 

[wayne harris]

hen#2

 

[flowerchild59]

I am excited. I am getting RC LF reds from Gary Underwood in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the tip Bob and helping to locate a breeder. He has been real nice to work with. My husband has wanted to get the RIR's for quite a while. They look to be an interesting breed and I love their combs.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Hey Ron!! Here's a pic of the older girl you sent. She's getting big!! She's a lot dark than what it looks. My phone camera is so so.


Here's one of the younger ones. I noticed that 3 where getting wattle's already.




Sorry, blurry. It won't sit still. So I assume and only assuming that the ones getting wattle's are the Roo's? The others don't have them yet. If that maybe the case, then 7 hens and 3 Roo's!! PERFECTION!!!!

Going to put the older one outside again for awhile with the young Brahma's. Last time the Brahma's sort of chased her around. But this time going to take a few Leghorns out with her as bodyguards.

Those leghorn take NO crap. Them and the reds do the chest bump. The reds always back down then the leghorn will give them a pick in the forehead for go measure.

Chickens are just too funny. I watch them all day. CHICKEN TV!!!!

 

[FOGELLY]

Anthony,
Glad you are enjoying your new birds! They are in good hands and will be well cared for for sure.

Ron

 

[Mumsy]

Busy morning. Post office called at 6am to inform me my Fogle chicks were in! They spent an extra day held over in the sorting facility in Seattle and still made it. All alive. All healthy, vigorus, and vocal. They look great and act great. Except for being ravenously hungry, they show no signs of stress. Amazing!

I wasn't paying much attention to the incubator with all the activity with new chicks and heard peeping coming from somewhere other than the new arrivals. What do you know? My Fogle eggs are zipping and a pipping! Two out, more to come and eleven beautiful two week old youngsters filling up on groceries.

Thanks Ron. You and your wife did an excellent job of starting them and shipping them across country. My husband and I are thrilled to get these birds. The do over start of heritage Rhode Island Reds in the Pacific North West is off to a rollicking beginning!

 

[catdaddyfro]

Busy morning. Post office called at 6am to inform me my Fogle chicks were in! They spent an extra day held over in the sorting facility in Seattle and still made it. All alive. All healthy, vigorus, and vocal. They look great and act great. Except for being ravenously hungry, they show no signs of stress. Amazing!

I wasn't paying much attention to the incubator with all the activity with new chicks and heard peeping coming from somewhere other than the new arrivals. What do you know? My Fogle eggs are zipping and a pipping! Two out, more to come and eleven beautiful two week old youngsters filling up on groceries.

Thanks Ron. You and your wife did an excellent job of starting them and shipping them across country. My husband and I are thrilled to get these birds. The do over start of heritage Rhode Island Reds in the Pacific North West is off to a rollicking beginning!

Yes I too received some chicks(Columbian rocks) from Fogelly this morning also. They arrived well and good and as you said I saw no stress factors at all with the exception of being hungry and they fixed that right up real quick an in a hurry, LOL I didn't have to add any special drops in their mouths or in their water founts they were good to go. I to thank him for taking the extra time to rear them a few weeks longer and send good healthy chicks to me, too.

Jeff

 

[FOGELLY]

Y'all sure know how to make a guy feel good! My wife appreciated the atta girl too.
Ron

 

[Robert Blosl]

Glad to see so many sharing their Reds with others and happy with the results. Glad you got your Rose Combs from Gary Underwood. At least they will be happy with the climate being they are from North Illinois. Gary was one of my first mentors 20 years ago. His father sent me my first Reds as a junior in 1962.

Now enjoy them, promote them, join the Rhode Island Red Club of America as I did again and lets push these birds to stardom as they are going to get more popular each year.