The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[TriciaHowe]

Cmom - how many do you have left? May be able to take them off your hands...... better than freezer camp for nice birds

 

[cmom]

They are show quality. I have won Champion American with a couple of the cockerels and with a pullet.

This is one of my champions. He split his comb in a cage I had him in. I don't know how it happened but he was in a cage a few days prior to the show, so he is now in retirement. He is now with the hens (mothers of the Champions). It was hard to try to get him to pose. You can see where is comb is split. When he was at the show there was a scab and you couldn't tell, but when the scab fell off I noticed the cut was deeper than I thought and made a pretty noticeable split. The sun makes them look more washed out.


Here is my pullet.

 

[TriciaHowe]

Emily is showing hers from you at Newnam in the Juniors again - like sunshine classic. PM me or email me [email protected] if you want to work something out. I just love their personalities and looks.

 

[cmom]

Cmom - how many do you have left? May be able to take them off your hands...... better than freezer camp for nice birds

I think there are 8 but I am keeping one as a backup in case anything happens to my other 2 so 7 are left.

Here is my Rose Comb cockerel. He is just 7 months old and still growing. He and his 2 girls love my DH and everywhere he is they want to be.

 

[TriciaHowe]

Stunning!!

 

[cmom]

I think he has potential. Did you see the RC RIR at Lake City? He got BV but I may be biased but I think my Dexter looks better. I wish I had taken a picture of the RC boy at the show.

 

[cmom]

I'm thinking about going to Newnan. I have a friend that wants to go to so we could go together.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

My hen I got from Matt at the a knoxville show started to lay a few days ago. Nice! Time to think about putting up a breeding pen in a few weeks.

 

[RedRidge]

Just hatched my first chicks from my Knoxville show birds. Even though I'm a bad mommy and totally had a brain lapse and forgot to lockdown (that's what lambing 40+ ewes in 5 days will do for you).
Couldn't believe it when I opened the bator and had popcorn chicks everywhere. They were, of course, on the top shelf and those who didn't have their seat belts on ended up in front of the "empty" hatching tray at the bottom. :-0 Brother! I was amazed that 19 of the 20 hatched with that low humidity.
Note to self: don't hatch and lamb in the same week. ;-)

 

[cmom]

Just hatched my first chicks from my Knoxville show birds. Even though I'm a bad mommy and totally had a brain lapse and forgot to lockdown (that's what lambing 40+ ewes in 5 days will do for you).
Couldn't believe it when I opened the bator and had popcorn chicks everywhere. They were, of course, on the top shelf and those who didn't have their seat belts on ended up in front of the "empty" hatching tray at the bottom. :-0 Brother! I was amazed that 19 of the 20 hatched with that low humidity.
Note to self: don't hatch and lamb in the same week. ;-)

I think it happens to all of us at one time or another. You're lucky if all the chicks ended up in front if the hatching tray. When I have forgot before I had to dig them out from in the back of the hatching tray. Some were in the other trays. I was amazed too that I had so many hatch. I'm the dim-whit that forgot to mark on the calendar when I put the eggs into the incubator. I thought once was enough and then another time I did it again only this time I thought I had the date right and it marked the wrong date on the calendar. Dah..... Oh well we live and learn.