The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[RedRidge]

Oh my, I am finished setting eggs for the season. 13 batches set every 5 days in the bator and 2 under broodies. My goal was to have empty brooders by May 1st. Whew. Glad to be winding down.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Hi Yvonne,
I also have the Reese/Mohawk line. I don't recognize the name of Robert(s,'s) but do recognize the name Brian Simmons. As far as I know he has them. My birds came from Alabama. Originally I purchased some birds at the Florida Sunshine Classic in Lake City a few years ago. I was told that they were descendants of the Reese line. I wanted more birds and came across the fellow who wrote this history of the Mohawk and he turned me on to a nice young man that has this line so I purchased more birds from him. I absolutely love these birds.
http://bloslspoutlryfarm.tripod.com/id64.html

Alieda

sgribble has some Roberts line Reds he may be able to help you out with your query

Jeff

 

[cmom]

Quote:
Is there a website for the Roberts line of Reds? Bob Blosl (RIP) turned me on to Matt Ulrich. He has fine birds too. His Reese birds win at a lot of shows.

 

[Matt1616]

Is there a website for the Roberts line of Reds? Bob Blosl (RIP) turned me on to Matt Ulrich. He has fine birds too. His Reese birds win at a lot of shows.

No, there is no website for John's line of Reds. I have had them for several years and Steven has as well. I got them from Raymond Phillips which is the older gentleman that is always set up on the corner selling a bunch of Reds at the Lake City show each year. John Roberts got out of Large Fowl reds 3-4 years back but did keep a few LF females. Last year he bought a male from Rademacher and has intentions to breed a few but not a bunch. He also got a few females from me at Inverness.

Yvonne, the other possible source for good Reds in South Georgia was Bill Bennett. That could have been who the man was talking about.

Matt

 

[monnie662]

Oh my, I am finished setting eggs for the season. 13 batches set every 5 days in the bator and 2 under broodies. My goal was to have empty brooders by May 1st. Whew. Glad to be winding down.

Are you setting your batches in the same bator or different bators.

 

[RedRidge]

Oh my, I am finished setting eggs for the season. 13 batches set every 5 days in the bator and 2 under broodies. My goal was to have empty brooders by May 1st. Whew. Glad to be winding down.

Are you setting your batches in the same bator or different bators.

I set batches of 20 eggs every 5 days alternating in 2 different styrofoam still airs. Then at day 18 for each batch I move them to my Octagon 20 for lockdown/hatch. The Octagon holds humidity a lot better so that's why I do it that way. Just a strange system that has worked for me. One of these days I dream of having a cabinet bator but have about given up trying to find one used. I hatch an average of about 17 chicks every 5 days with this rotation. Weird I know. Lol

 

[monnie662]

I set batches of 20 eggs every 5 days alternating in 2 different styrofoam still airs. Then at day 18 for each batch I move them to my Octagon 20 for lockdown/hatch. The Octagon holds humidity a lot better so that's why I do it that way. Just a strange system that has worked for me. One of these days I dream of having a cabinet bator but have about given up trying to find one used. I hatch an average of about 17 chicks every 5 days with this rotation. Weird I know. Lol

I guess it gets back to record keeping

 

[Fred's Hens]

Just got to keep it all straight, that's all.

 

[cmom]

Quote:
So Matt, That fellow that always sets up on the corner, Raymond Phillips, has Reese descendants?

Alieda

P.S.
A few years back I bought some eggs from a guy in Lake City that supposedly had I believe he said were birds from the Reese line, but when I hatched out the eggs they looked more like Production Reds.

 

[RedRidge]

I set batches of 20 eggs every 5 days alternating in 2 different styrofoam still airs. Then at day 18 for each batch I move them to my Octagon 20 for lockdown/hatch. The Octagon holds humidity a lot better so that's why I do it that way. Just a strange system that has worked for me. One of these days I dream of having a cabinet bator but have about given up trying to find one used. I hatch an average of about 17 chicks every 5 days with this rotation. Weird I know. Lol

I guess it gets back to record keeping

Well let's just say I'm about as anal as they come. Lol
I'm a former software engineer, an excel spreadsheet junkie, and very visual. Because my Rhodebar genetic improvement program requires such extensive notes I have not only spreadsheets for laying production, breeding, and genetics but also a photo of every chick in the breeding program at hatch, weekly for the first 60 days, then monthly till 8 months. And of course hatch days, records, customer ship orders/records, etc.

Yes I am anal! And very visual. Everything here is color coded... And all colors and locations mean something (whether it's cattle and sheep ear tags, poultry leg bands, or colored feed buckets).

But those down colors can be so critical later in order to preserve my autosexing. I begin at hatch with vet wrap strip color combinations and then switch to size 6 colored spirals about 3 weeks old.
So record keeping for the HRIR comes easy... it's the RB project that is more detailed and time consuming.