The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[NestingHillsSC]

Good morning all,

I have been following the thread now for a couple years, and the HRIR is the next breed to join my menege here in MI. I have been in a pen building mode all winter and spring and it will continue on into the fall. Chicken pens and chicken houses.

By spring I hope to add the HRIR. The HRIR is my grandmothers breed, and she got me off to a good start with chickens, and many others around her. I still remember her sternly telling a neighbor ' if its not a rose comb its not a RIR ". The HRIR has been one of my favorite breeds all of my life.

To comment on the thread, I cant keep all roosters over the winter, my line of thought is that most all cockerals are developed enough at 6 mos to set their place in the flock, or not. If not its the freezer.

This fall I will be weighing all of the roosters and cockerals, and making note and comparing within the breeds. The biggest and with the best developed secondary characteristics will get the nod, and I want two roosters in the flocks. And, depending on space maybe a 3rd on backup. 10-12 hens is the goal for each. Lots of chickens,lots of eggs, have a good place to put the eggs in a local food pantry.

So, my 2 cents, before 0flation. Enjoy all, good to see some familar folks here.

Jake

Nice to see you on this thread now.

 

[Jake Levi]

Thanks, so many good chicken folks here, starting with Robert.

I am building two chicken houses after I finish the pen building, for growouts etc, and they will each house two breeds, and I plan the HRIR to be the fourth breed, so, maybe before winter, we'll see. Either chicks or eggs. Four breeds is all I really feel that I can do justice to. Keeping them separate and giving each a day to range. Each house will have two runs for everyday use.

 

[Robert Blosl]

...and here is me, myself, looking to find fellow HRIR enthusiasts within cup-of-tea occasion of the Olympic Peninsula, if you are out there, Whidbey Island dweller, just send me a note!
-Aleta G.
(Thank you, Mr. Blosl)

I sent you a personnel message with her page. If you type in Mumsy in the search area for this forum her page will show up. You never know you may be able to pick up a trio or two pair from her and you both will be off to the races. I have a friend who contacted me in the Chattanooga Tenn area and he has at least thirty extra R I Reds to be purchased at his home. No shipping and its to hot to ship anyway in the south. No eggs anymore most breeding pens are torn down and the chicks hatched this late do not mature and feather like the early ones do.

You lurkers who want R I Reds need to get on the waiting lists for next spring or purchase young birds from folks who have some left over. bob

 

[Pancholoco]

Mine started to pip externally

Almost a total loss

4 from 16, well from 16 +/- eggs only 12 were viable and from that 12 only 4 hatched, all were assisted, now they look pretty weak and my incubation parameters were 40 to 46% humidity all incubation and 73+ at lock down, temperature was at 99.8˚F all the incubation I use a Brinsea 20 Advance.
I'm so sad...

Let's see what will happen....

 

[catdaddyfro]

Good morning all,

I have been following the thread now for a couple years, and the HRIR is the next breed to join my menege here in MI. I have been in a pen building mode all winter and spring and it will continue on into the fall. Chicken pens and chicken houses.

By spring I hope to add the HRIR. The HRIR is my grandmothers breed, and she got me off to a good start with chickens, and many others around her. I still remember her sternly telling a neighbor ' if its not a rose comb its not a RIR ". The HRIR has been one of my favorite breeds all of my life.

To comment on the thread, I cant keep all roosters over the winter, my line of thought is that most all cockerals are developed enough at 6 mos to set their place in the flock, or not. If not its the freezer.

This fall I will be weighing all of the roosters and cockerals, and making note and comparing within the breeds. The biggest and with the best developed secondary characteristics will get the nod, and I want two roosters in the flocks. And, depending on space maybe a 3rd on backup. 10-12 hens is the goal for each. Lots of chickens,lots of eggs, have a good place to put the eggs in a local food pantry.

So, my 2 cents, before 0flation. Enjoy all, good to see some familar folks here.

Jake

You probly won't get to see the full potential of a HRIR at 6 mo. or even a lot of other H-types, so you might would consider waiting till around 9-12 mo. before breaking out the ol machete/chop axe, or you might be eating your #1 or #2 birds. IMO

Jeff

 

[RedRidge]

...and here is me, myself, looking to find fellow HRIR enthusiasts within cup-of-tea occasion of the Olympic Peninsula, if you are out there, Whidbey Island dweller, just send me a note!
-Aleta G.
(Thank you, Mr. Blosl)

 

I sent you a personnel message with her page. If you type in Mumsy in the search area for this forum her page will show up. You never know you may be able to pick up a trio or two pair from her and you both will be off to the races. I have a friend who contacted me in the Chattanooga Tenn area and he has at least thirty extra R I Reds to be purchased at his home. No shipping and its to hot to ship anyway in the south. No eggs anymore most breeding pens are torn down and the chicks hatched this late do not mature and feather like the early ones do.

You lurkers who want R I Reds need to get on the waiting lists for next spring or purchase young birds from folks who have some left over. bob

Robert,
Can you pm me info on what lines the person in Chattanooga had and their contact info
Thanks

 

[Mumsy]

I sent you a personnel message with her page. If you type in Mumsy in the search area for this forum her page will show up. You never know you may be able to pick up a trio or two pair from her and you both will be off to the races. I have a friend who contacted me in the Chattanooga Tenn area and he has at least thirty extra R I Reds to be purchased at his home. No shipping and its to hot to ship anyway in the south. No eggs anymore most breeding pens are torn down and the chicks hatched this late do not mature and feather like the early ones do.

You lurkers who want R I Reds need to get on the waiting lists for next spring or purchase young birds from folks who have some left over. bob

I just got the message. Thank you Mr. Blosl for the heads up. My Fogle flock are just now twelve weeks old. Out of twenty two birds, it now looks like I got five pullets and seventeen cockerels! Those are not great percentages. There is one that could up my pullets to six but still.... I won't be getting rid of any females over the next nine months. Out of those seventeen cockerels, I'm butchering four next month. None of the birds have bad defects but I just can't keep feeding that many cockerels when I will only keep three. Starting next year, I'll share eggs and birds from this stock. Not many but some.

I'll hatch as many eggs as I can from the best of those maybe six pullets and the best cock bird out of the seventeen to choose from. At three months old there are a couple boys that are looking fine. But...There are a lot of late bloomers to wait on too.

 

[FOGELLY]

I just got the message. Thank you Mr. Blosl for the heads up. My Fogle flock are just now twelve weeks old. Out of twenty two birds, it now looks like I got five pullets and seventeen cockerels! Those are not great percentages. There is one that could up my pullets to six but still.... I won't be getting rid of any females over the next nine months. Out of those seventeen cockerels, I'm butchering four next month. None of the birds have bad defects but I just can't keep feeding that many cockerels when I will only keep three. Starting  next year, I'll share eggs and birds from this stock. Not many but some.

I'll hatch as many eggs as I can from the best of those maybe six pullets and the best cock bird out of the seventeen to choose from. At three months old there are a couple boys that are looking fine. But...There are a lot of late bloomers to wait on too.

That is an amazing ratio of males to females. I am exactly opposite on my chicks, short on cockerels. Have not heard from everyone else, but I know Anthony ended up with 8 pullets 2 cockerels.

You will be able to raise A Lot of chicks off 3-5 hens and 2-3 males.

Ron

 

[Mumsy]

That is an amazing ratio of males to females. I am exactly opposite on my chicks, short on cockerels. Have not heard from everyone else, but I know Anthony ended up with 8 pullets 2 cockerels.

You will be able to raise A Lot of chicks off 3-5 hens and 2-3 males.

Ron

Yes. When it recently dawned on me that ten of the eleven shipped chicks were male and seven of the eleven eggs I hatched were too.....It kind of made me sick to my stomach when I figured in what it was going to cost me to feed all those boys over the course of a year.

Those five maybe six pullets are highly prized as gold to me right now. I look at all those cockerels as a gold mine of choice too. My husband is looking at a lot of fried chicken. I've got to cut those boys down to a dozen pretty quick. Waiting waiting waiting...

 

[AletaG]

Hello! I found 'mumsy' s page and sent her a note. She's probably so busy with her new flock, she has no time to reply. If anyone DOES have extras, please let me know what it would cost to ship them once it cools down in the fall. It's plenty cool here in Port Hadlock WA, but if you are in AL or something, well.

Thanks all! Sure wish I'd discovered these sooner this year, will be making do with 'productions'.

Aleta G.