The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[immyjay54]

That is one beautiful pullet Bob. Thanks Jim for letting me know about your web site, you have some nice looking reds!!
Scott

You are quite welcome Scott and thanks for the compliment. I truly do love these HRIR's and will continue to do my best with them. It is a lot of work keeping the different bloodlines but I just felt that the only true way to satisfy myself was to do the way that I am. I personally think that if anyone was to get any of these good bloodline birds and work with them long enough, you could get some top birds if you wanted to show. It was really hard for me to believe the difference in some of the lines pertaining to type, color, feather texture, disposition, egg laying etc. I guess it is just a persons personal preference which line that they want to go with. They all have their good and not so good traits. One thing that I have found in every blood line is that the Cock birds are not mean like the hatchery/mixed lines.
Thanks again Scott
Jim
Oh, just so you or anyone else reading this will know that I have not and do not plan on mixing any of my lines. I keep them totally separated. I had this burned in my brain from Bill Post (NYREDS), Bob Blosl and a couple others and I have gone with it. LOL

 

[catdaddyfro]

You are quite welcome Scott and thanks for the compliment. I truly do love these HRIR's and will continue to do my best with them. It is a lot of work keeping the different bloodlines but I just felt that the only true way to satisfy myself was to do the way that I am. I personally think that if anyone was to get any of these good bloodline birds and work with them long enough, you could get some top birds if you wanted to show. It was really hard for me to believe the difference in some of the lines pertaining to type, color, feather texture, disposition, egg laying etc. I guess it is just a persons personal preference which line that they want to go with. They all have their good and not so good traits. One thing that I have found in every blood line is that the Cock birds are not mean like the hatchery/mixed lines.
Thanks again Scott
Jim
Oh, just so you or anyone else reading this will know that I have not and do not plan on mixing any of my lines. I keep them totally separated. I had this burned in my brain from Bill Post (NYREDS), Bob Blosl and a couple others and I have gone with it. LOL

Yes repetition or hearing something over and over again does tend to get stuck into a brain cell or two eventually, unless one is completely insane or incompetent at learning LOL

I think we chicken folk(well me esp.) are borderline both LOL Well something for sure makes us different than the general populus LOL

 

[immyjay54]

Yes repetition or hearing something over and over again does tend to get stuck into a brain cell or two eventually, unless one is completely insane or incompetent at learning LOL

I think we chicken folk(well me esp.) are borderline both LOL Well something for sure makes us different than the general populus LOL

Oh Jeff, you sure can speak the truth very plainly. ha,ha. When I was chatting back and forth with NYREDS a while back, that is one thing that was in almost every email or PM. LOL
Jim

 

[catdaddyfro]

Oh Jeff, you sure can speak the truth very plainly. ha,ha. When I was chatting back and forth with NYREDS a while back, that is one thing that was in almost every email or PM. LOL
Jim

Just cuckoo as coco puffs sometimes LOL

Jeff

 

[Robert Blosl]

http://jimspetsandpoultry.weebly.com/matts-reds--the-old-reese-line.html

Got on the face book Rhode Island Red Club page have not read it in weeks lurked around and found a web site and looked at different heading and found this one. Steve I saw the picture of the red male with the high tail angle. Hope he is not like this walking on the grass and relaxed.

I think I have seen chicks like this once upon a time. My vision comes and goes just took my third pill to get me back to ground zero but it like this site. Congratulations on the pictures. Nice chicks and I hope when your little ones grow up you will see a near black quills web over the saddle area of your adult birds. This came from the Florida Simmons line. Most reds don't have this dark black deep red quill color.

They will have super vigor as its been since 1954 there has been any cross onto this line. These are still pure Donaldson line over a hundred years old but it was over fifteen years that the two lines ever meet. Thanks for your hard work. Cant wait to see pictures of them in full bloom this fall.

I don't know if I want to say the top five lines as someone may have hurt feelings about this. One thing is to look at the winning in the last few months or during the winter to see who was in Poultry Press. Those birds came from the top five lines. Maybe I will send you a personnel message. Having a top strain means in my book they have been line breed for at least ten years. No crosses of other lines. You may luck out when you make crosses but when you buy these birds they sig and sag with faults on you. and in two to three years you end up with something that blows your mind like what happen. A good strain by guys who breed them pure or line breed them is where you want to go. It cost just as much to raise a so so red as one that comes from a great line.

If you don't want to show them it don't make much difference but when you do want to show them and you get something that you can not control year in and year out you get frustrated. One guy did this for about five years and got rid of all of them then got a line from a old boy in Texas that is on my list. He has something now hope he does not get a wild hair up his xxx and crosses and screws them up again. This is called Russian Rullet breeding. You may get a good bird but they can not pass their traits on each year. I better get off my soap box. I just wanted to show off this page I found on the internet. I LURK>>>////,,,,

 

[FOGELLY]

20 week old birds.

 

[OSUman]

WOW

Here is one of my favorite females or pullets from last year. What line is she from I cant remember and cant see good enough to tell.

 

[Fentress]

Didn't they send you a packing list with your chicks?

I got some other breeds from Sandhill and they put in some Auburn Sumatras as box fillers. I think this is what you have, although the comb doesn't look right in the first picture.

yeah, I got a packing list and according to that no substitutions were made. I will just have to wait a few months and see what I got. Thanks for the feedback.

Mark

 

[immyjay54]

20 week old birds.

Very nice younguns there Ron. I'll meet you half way and you can load them up in a wire crate and I'll bring mine and we'll just take them out of your crate and put them in mine and then I'll say THANK YOU BUDDY ha,ha,ha. I have plenty to raise up right now. lol Those sure are nice though. Thanks for posting.
Jim

 

[RedRidge]

Got on the face book Rhode Island Red Club page have not read it in weeks lurked around ...

I requested to join that FB group weeks ago... still haven't been approved as a member so can't access it.
I also joined the RIR Club of America months ago... have still not heard a word from them either.
I had just assumed that the RIR Club was a very inactive group.... am I wrong?