The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[FOGELLY]

Charged the battery and took a few more pictures. They are all I would hope for and more in the old type RIR. Seven pullets and thirteen cockerels. Good broad backs on all of them. A few of the pullets are looking good for twenty one weeks.

Mumsy, They look very healthy and well cared for. Excellent work! Also nice job of Photo shopping that yellow on their legs Ron

 

[FOGELLY]

I couldn't get very great pictures but here are a couple pictures of some reds I have growing out at 16 weeks old

Classic looking birds. They should make you proud. Thanks for showing them to us. Ron

 

[AletaG]

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There are others in SW Washington and NW Oregon. I'm just outside Battleground WA and got my first red bantams in 1975, Large fowl in 1978. I did take a lengthy hiatus to raise my kids, but I'm enjoying them again (the birds that is, I've pretty much always enjoyed my kids). Most of my start came from Gary Underwood. There is also a breeder outside of Salem towards the coast, with LF from Underwood and I think Lloyd Flanagan and Dick Horstman.

Well, heck! I've been looking, and posting, on this thread and others since... well, the day I signed up this Spring. Mr. Blosl pointed me to Mumsy in Whidbey, which is who I'm planning on obtaining cockerels from, but she had no pullets to spare this year. All R. Fogle, though, so I can't mix lines at this late date. Wish I'd seen/heard from you months ago! I would have been on a lengthy farm tour all summer!!

If everything falls through (life deals like that sometimes...) will PM you to figure out how to contact these individuals Actually, will send you a silly PM, just so I can keep your username someplace. Heaven knows this note on the thread will be buried by Tuesday...

 

[MumsyII]

Mumsy,

They look very healthy and well cared for. Excellent work!
Also nice job of Photo shopping that yellow on their legs

Ron

Thank you Ron. I enjoy watching these birds develop every day.

And HAH! About photo shopping yellow.

 

[immyjay54]

Very nice looking birds you all. Thanks for sharing.

 

[cmom]

Charged the battery and took a few more pictures. They are all I would hope for and more in the old type RIR. Seven pullets and thirteen cockerels.






Good broad backs on all of them.

A few of the pullets are looking good for twenty one weeks.

 

[Laingcroft]

Wow. What beautiful RIRs! I am sooo jealous. Time to get on the ball and reserve/beg for some chicks next year! Still love the rose combs, but some of these SC beauties are certainly tempting....

 

[immyjay54]

I really like the head and neck of the first pullet. I really like the broad heads on my hens. I don't like the ones that lots call crow heads. lol
Jim

 

[Jake Levi]

This is the year without a summer for us in this part of MI, havent had a tomato yet and most likely wont now. So I will likely not try hatching any more chicks out this year , I have some eggs in the incubator now and may have to knit those chicks some parkas when they hatch. Or sweators anyhow.

I still prefer the Rose Combs, just from following my grand mother around her flock and listening to her. But I am enjoying the body types I am seeing here on all of these.

More pics please !

Do we have any RC HRIRs in MI ??

 

[Fred's Hens]

This is the year without a summer for us in this part of MI, havent had a tomato yet and most likely wont now. So I will likely not try hatching any more chicks out this year , I have some eggs in the incubator now and may have to knit those chicks some parkas when they hatch. Or sweators anyhow.

I still prefer the Rose Combs, just from following my grand mother around her flock and listening to her. But I am enjoying the body types I am seeing here on all of these.

More pics please !

Do we have any RC HRIRs in MI ??

Hey Jake, we're west of you. It has been an odd summer, that's for sure. Everything's late, but it'll "make" OK. Expecting a week of mid 80's temps. Should finish everything off. We're drowning in tomatoes, but like every other variety we plant here on the produce farm, the chosen variety is not just important, it is essential. Over here in the Au Sable valley, we don't even rely on 90 days of growing season. Everything is 85 day or shorter. That we've only had 1/3 of our normal rainfall? Horrid.

I put my last batch in the incubator this week. They'll hatch on September 5th. They'll be 17 weeks by New Years. That's fine. They should be nice and mature by April and that's just fine too.

Sorry, only single combed Reds over here.
Best,