The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[ronott1]

yes, the Brinsea is the one that went bad. lol I've had it for quite a few years and it has always done a wonderful job of incubating and like you I would put them in the styro's for hatch. No room in the Brinsea. This new one, the Farm Innovator is still hanging right in there with the temp/humidity. That is something with your friends eggs. lol I believe all those stories. This is why I always say that I think folks have gotten to picky with their hatching eggs.

As for the Durham line of chickens, I've read some articles on them but it was way back in time. Yes Durham is cattle also other livestock and they did have poultry. There is a little information on the family history but only what they raised. I had never been into that. The RIR in Europe etc. don't look the same as ours so weather they still look the same or not now I don't really know. I used to have some video's of the German RIR but don't know if I still have them or not. I just figure I'll work on what I have and try and keep them right and I'll have enough to do. lol

Jimmy

Brinsea has a mail in repair service. It might be too expensive but may be worth looking into.

Congrats on the hatch!

 

[Rancher3535]

Your hens look really nice. how come mine has it's tail sticking up? Also how come with some of yours have white legs and mine has yellow? Is that a problem?

I noticed you had a couple of Columbian looking birds in the back ground of the first picture. Are they Columbian Rocks? Columbian Wyandottes? Light Brahmas?

 

[immyjay54]

Brinsea has a mail in repair service. It might be too expensive but may be worth looking into.

Congrats on the hatch!

Hey there,
Yes, I did have to sent the top to them one time a few years ago when the heater wasn't working right and it was still under warranty and they fixed it and didn't cost me for anything but now it is out of warranty so I may contact them or I may just see what a new top would cost or just let it go if to high. lol

Will give them a buzz tomorrow. It's just that everything had to be done so fast with these eggs that I had to get a new one. Thanks for the comment though. Good hearing from you. And thanks for the congrats on the hatch. These six are doing just fine. Have to wait a couple more days to see if anything happens with the others. I think I may do the water test a little later to see if there is still life in the eggs. If not then I'll just toss them.

Jimmy

 

[immyjay54]

Just amazing about those 6 chicks. Funny how the smaller batches seem to get the most attention too. My broody duck is getting the attention here. Turns out that one of the other female ducks in her pen was cracking the shells so I had to pull the other females. I'm hoping the change in the pen does not end her broody setting though. I can't seem to hatch these mallard eggs in my incubator.

Always something to be fussed ;up over with these birds. I've heard that some have a little trouble hatching the Marans eggs also. Maybe the temp has to be a little higher on the ducks. I don't know because I've never messed with ducks. My mom used to raise quite a few with mothers but my parents never used an incubator. We lived way out and all our chickens set on their own eggs. I can remember how many times the chickens and ducks used to steal their nests out and come in in a few weeks with all those little peeps and yellow butter balls and us kids would just have a ball with them. That was many years ago. lol The good old days.
Jimmy

 

[cmom]

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Oh the good ole days where we had no computers, incubators, cell phones and a whole lot more. More than likely you had a dial-up phone line that was a party line with each family on it with a different ring. Does that ring a bell???

 

[immyjay54]

Oh the good ole days where we had no computers, incubators, cell phones and a whole lot more. More than likely you had a dial-up phone line that was a party line with each family on it with a different ring. Does that ring a bell???

Oh my gosh, that is just the tip of the ice burg. I can remember having a pump on the (so called counter top) on the sink to pump water into the house from the well. Then mom would heat it up on the coal stove and pour it in the old cloths rinse tub for us kids to take our baths. No indoor plumbing and it was awful cold going out through 2 or 3 feet of snow in the winter time to the old outhouse. ha,ha,ha. Am I going back to far for you. lol I'm attaching these two pictures which was my great grand pap and great grandma. Check out her fancy house. Oh my, truthfully it makes me feel bad that we have so much today and most are not even thankful. Being the youngest of 12, I remember 3 - 4 of us kids jumping into bed together. Wearing all the hand me down cloths etc. Yes, I remember the good old days.

Jimmy

 

[Henerz101]

They're speckledy, rir x something else, they're bred for just laying they're not the best layers in the world as warrens (red stars as you call them) are the best brown layers laying over 320 eggs per year with brown eggs and white stars that are white and lay a white egg laying over 320 also.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Every hen that attempts to go broody here is instantly claimed by my daughter so that she can say all of the chicks are her chicks. She tries to talk to the broody hens and even tells them to be good moms to her chicks. She talks to the goats too and the cats. But her prep talk did not work on our female barn cat. She still has not shown us her kittens. I'm inclined to think the cat did away with the kittens.

Counted one of my red pens yesterday with ages between 6 weeks and 12 weeks. Looks like I might have 15 pullets and over 25 roosters. I stopped counting at 25 roosters as I had entered planning mode and was thinking about how many processing days I was going to need.

 

[cmom]

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I have been doing my ancestry. I remember those days as well. When I was a kid I liked to play in the coal bin and my mother would get quite angry with me. There was just my brother, sister and I. Jimmy, we are the same age. I saw your birth date I think you were born in September and I was born in January. My hubby was born in 1940. Back then most of the people seemed to farm. When I was looking up the ancestors occupations, most were farmers. My side of the family is Dutch from the Netherlands. The Dutch keep really good records. My husband has been doing his ancestry too and found the same with his family. His family is French Canadian on his fathers side and English on his mothers side.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

Every hen that attempts to go broody here is instantly claimed by my daughter so that she can say all of the chicks are her chicks.  She tries to talk to the broody hens and even tells them to be good moms to her chicks.  She talks to the goats too and the cats.  But her prep talk did not work on our female barn cat.  She still has not shown us her kittens.  I'm inclined to think the cat did away with the kittens.


Counted one of my red pens yesterday with ages between 6 weeks and 12 weeks.  Looks like I might have 15 pullets and over 25 roosters.  I stopped counting at 25 roosters as I had entered planning mode and was thinking about how many processing days I was going to need.

I don't know if this will help, but if you check the mama cats nipples, and th fur is pushed away (leaving a circle shape around them) then she's still nursing..last spring I found a baby cardinal on the street in town where it fell from a nest..of course I took it home and itbonded very quickly. .I had it in a brooder with some mutt chicks..well about 2 days after having it I heard a horrible chirping, Ean in and the baby bird was missing from the brooder (it had a wire top and the cats had NEVER paid attention to the chicks). Well our barn cat had grabbed that baby bird out of all those chicks and of course there was nothing but fuzz left by the time I realized what happened. .I banned thst cat from the house. I was furious..until a few days later when I walked in the barn and saw a 3 or 4 week old kitten running , hissing and growling, wild as can be (they still run wild here) but then I felt bad about the mama bc I didn't even know she was preggo..