The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Rhodebar Lover]

Hard to say from the pictures I think it's a bit early to tell. He looks lighter in color than my birds. My boy here is around 6/7 months.

The pictures make him significantly lighter than in real life

 

[ronott1]

Can I have any opinions on if my RC RIR cockerel would be worth keeping for breeding purposes? He is only 4 months old, but he is looking mature enough for some early opinions.

Hard to say from the pictures I think it's a bit early to tell. He looks lighter in color than my birds.
My boy here is around 6/7 months.

Yes, he is still a baby!

Give him one to two months and post more pictures. He looks good so far(for his age).

 

[Matt1616]

Can I have any opinions on if my RC RIR cockerel would be worth keeping for breeding purposes? He is only 4 months old, but he is looking mature enough for some early opinions.

He appears to be roach backed in these pictures. May change when he puts in his tail but I would certainly pay attention to that. Roach back is a serious flaw in several lines of Rhode Island Reds and should not be bred from.

Matt

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Can I have any opinions on if my RC RIR cockerel would be worth keeping for breeding purposes? He is only 4 months old, but he is looking mature enough for some early opinions.

He appears to be roach backed in these pictures. May change when he puts in his tail but I would certainly pay attention to that. Roach back is a serious flaw in several lines of Rhode Island Reds and should not be bred from. Matt

Is it common in Dick Horstmans line, because I bought him from Horstmans Poultry?

 

[732phil]

Hard to say from the pictures I think it's a bit early to tell. He looks lighter in color than my birds. My boy here is around 6/7 months.

Cmom nice RCRIR !!!

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Hard to say from the pictures I think it's a bit early to tell. He looks lighter in color than my birds. My boy here is around 6/7 months.

The pictures make him significantly lighter than in real life

cmom thats a great looking 6month old RIR younster you have there.

 

[cmom]

Quote: cmom thats a great looking 6month old RIR younster you have there.

We will see what my others are. I have several younger RC RIRs. Not sure yet how many are males. I have one blind one that I think is a female. She eats, drinks and preens. My hubby wants me to cull her but I want to wait. She is one of the older chicks but small and fits right in with the younger chicks. They are all in a big cage right now until I can get all of the coops reorganized and move birds around. When combining different coops and blending the flocks it helps if everyone that is being blended goes into a different coop and pen. I am also emptying a couple of coops and pens to use as my bachelor coops and pens.
This is an older picture. I planted trees in all of the pens and the trees are bigger now.




They all get let out to roam.

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Hard to say from the pictures I think it's a bit early to tell. He looks lighter in color than my birds. My boy here is around 6/7 months.

The pictures make him significantly lighter than in real life

cmom thats a great looking 6month old RIR younster you have there.

We will see what my others are. I have several younger RC RIRs. Not sure yet how many are males. I have one blind one that I think is a female. She eats, drinks and preens. My hubby wants me to cull her but I want to wait. She is one of the older chicks but small and fits right in with the younger chicks. They are all in a big cage right now until I can get all of the coops reorganized and move birds around. When combining different coops and blending the flocks it helps if everyone that is being blended goes into a different coop and pen. I am also emptying a couple of coops and pens to use as my bachelor coops and pens. This is an older picture. I planted trees in all of the pens and the trees are bigger now. They all get let out to roam.

yes cmom I have seen pictures of your older males and they are looking awesome I like your pen setup and I do understand blending when doing this if you rotate from one pen to another they not as territorial and ypu have less problems and they amd the different ages blend together better sometimes this works good when bringing together different sizes of chickens I did this with my 23week olds and 13 week olds they blended fairly well no bate spot of feathers and no blood and so far my 23 week old rooster has not hurt the youngsters just one bossly 23 week old hen name rose but now I understand why my

is the first to lay an beautiful rose brown egg tofay was her first time no cackles no hollor I was outside raking the yard and she just waddled up to me and says coo cluck it was like there it is and walked off and got some water.My 23 week olds are the one I fot from the breeder in my area my rooster looks like your young one you posted today I happy with him and so far I am even happy with some of the ines I got from the hatchery the color of most of these 13 week old are dark just will wait and see about body type as it too early to tell yet .

 

[stanglover2001]

How often do older heritage RIRs lay? I bought a trio but didn't bother asking about age and it's almost been a week and I'm anxiously awaiting an egg. The spurs on the rooster are about an inch and the combs are nice and red. I live in Tennessee and not sure if the conditions just haven't been right yet, or if they're adjusting or if heritage RIR don't lay many eggs. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

How often do older heritage RIRs lay? I bought a trio but didn't bother asking about age and it's almost been a week and I'm anxiously awaiting an egg. The spurs on the rooster are about an inch and the combs are nice and red. I live in Tennessee and not sure if the conditions just haven't been right yet, or if they're adjusting or if heritage RIR don't lay many eggs. Any advice is appreciated.

that really depends on their age and the bloodline of the fowl did parent hens lay quite often and so on heritage RIRs are a strong breed of chickens but can be sensitive to certain conditions as in meaning change in place weather diet of food different person another word change in surroundings they can even have perception of your uneasiness .*be calm cool its just been a week and like you said you dont know their ages most lay at about 23 weeks but some can hold out as long as 28 weeks aalso ask some of the others member of this thread as I have just started with

again.And* true *heritage* RIR* fowl are different from *production red* fowl.if you can contact your breeder you purchased your

from it would be a good idea to fine out their age I believe this would help you.But* relaxe* and enjoy your birds in the meanwhile this will help both you and your birds .Hope this helps.