The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Eggcessive]

Mumsy, I hope you all are doing okay there after the big landslide today. It's great your chicks made it safely and that your chicks are hatching.

 

[Mumsy]

Mumsy, I hope you all are doing okay there after the big landslide today. It's great your chicks made it safely and that your chicks are hatching.

Thank you. Coupeville is twelve miles up island from me. No one I know is affected. My daddy always told me, "Don't build your farm in a flood plain, at the waters edge, at the base of a mountain, or on a cliff." Words I've lived by and taught my grown kids. I have a daughter in Coupeville. A half mile inland from those cliffs. Those sand cliffs that are sliding today have been sliding into the Puget Sound for millennia. Really bad idea to build houses on top of those.

What a crazy day here with travel weary chicks and hatching eggs. The eleven have settled in and have eaten a total of four cups of fermented feed in twelve hours! Three chicks are hatched and four more pipped. Really great looking babies.

 

[Laingcroft]

RIR come in rose comb?!?!

So glad I took a peek in this thread. My only experience with RIR was over ten years ago with what I am now guessing was a "production red" hen. She was the meanest thing and soured me on the breed. Guess I have to give Mr. Horstman a shout out and find a couple of these true RIR --- with rose combs...

 

[ronott1]

This is a 4 day old Bates line RIR form Ron Fogel:

 

[NestingHillsSC]

This is a 4 day old Bates line RIR form Ron Fogel:

 

[ClayRust]

WOW!!!!!!!

 

[Mumsy]

There is NOTHING wimpy or weak about the Ron Fogle chicks! The two week old shipped chicks enjoy their groceries. They lick their dishes clean in a very short amount of time. Gave them some scrambled eggs so I could try and get a picture with them not moving around so much.






I took nine out of the incubator this morning. Beautiful dark red and chunky chicks. Good uniformity of size, strength, health, and disposition.


Just out of the egg twelve hours ago. That is what I'd call "a handful of chick!"

 

[immyjay54]

There is NOTHING wimpy or weak about the Ron Fogle chicks! The two week old shipped chicks enjoy their groceries. They lick their dishes clean in a very short amount of time. Gave them some scrambled eggs so I could try and get a picture with them not moving around so much.






I took nine out of the incubator this morning. Beautiful dark red and chunky chicks. Good uniformity of size, strength, health, and disposition.


Just out of the egg twelve hours ago. That is what I'd call "a handful of chick!"

Hey there mumsy: you seem to be as much of a camera buff as I am. Not a great photographer but I do love taking pictures of all mine.
Those are some excellent looking chicks.
Enjoy all of them.
Jim

 

[noahsmom]

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RIR come in rose comb?!?!    

So glad I took a peek in this thread.   My only experience with RIR was over ten years ago with what I am now guessing was a "production red" hen.  She was the meanest thing and soured me on the breed.   Guess I have to give Mr. Horstman a shout out and find a couple of these true RIR --- with rose combs...  

I wanted rose combs, unfortunately they weren't available at the time. I have 10 SC rir from dick in my brooder now just a day old they are beautiful and full of life. One I believe isn't going to make it but doing everything I can for him to see to it he does.

 

[cmom]

My eggs hatched from the birds I got from Matt. They are beautiful chicks. I will post pictures of them.