The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[cmom]

I got them from a breeder here in Alberta.

I am so happy you finally got some. Keep posting pictures as the grow.

 

[CalgaryFarmer]

Thanks cmom.

 

[sgribble]

I have 7 pair of young Rhode Island Reds for sell in Northwest Georgia

 

[cmom]

What a horrible hatch I had this year. I just separated my males from my females and put the males in bachelor coops and pens and around 75% plus were males.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

What a horrible hatch I had this year. I just separated my males from my females and put the males in bachelor coops and pens and around 75% plus were males.

Same here. I want to grow them all out to pick the best but our feed bill is skyrocketing. I'm thinking of culling the youngest set or two but there would not be much value in processing them so I can't bring myself to do it yet.

 

[cmom]

Quote: Same here too.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I counted up my RIR and other roosters. I think I need more weekends to even get the processing done. A friend has a plucker so it goes fast on days he processes but his hatches were not rooster heavy this year. I'm looking at having at least another 5-8 processing days with most of them being in the late fall to Christmas time frame.

Honestly if anyone on here is close enough that they want to meet up for a RIR rooster 2 generations out from the Fogle line, please pm.

 

[ronott1]

I counted up my RIR and other roosters. I think I need more weekends to even get the processing done. A friend has a plucker so it goes fast on days he processes but his hatches were not rooster heavy this year. I'm looking at having at least another 5-8 processing days with most of them being in the late fall to Christmas time frame.

Honestly if anyone on here is close enough that they want to meet up for a RIR rooster 2 generations out from the Fogle line, please pm.

How many do you need to process?

The Fogle line is in very good shape. Walt Leonard recently posted that the best breeders do not hatch out hundreds of chicks a year. Maybe next year do not hatch out so many and hopefully you will have a better cockerel to pullet ratio.

Get the friends plucker and invite local chicken people to a work day. Teach them to process--and process your chickens. It would be a win, win for all involved.

 

[cmom]

I still have a lot in the freezer from lasts years hatch. I really don't have the room for more. We also freeze some and can some vegetables from our gardens. We grow our gardens in the winter because it's too hot here in Florida in the summer months and the bugs.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

How many do you need to process?

The Fogle line is in very good shape. Walt Leonard recently posted that the best breeders do not hatch out hundreds of chicks a year. Maybe next year do not hatch out so many and hopefully you will have a better cockerel to pullet ratio.

Get the friends plucker and invite local chicken people to a work day. Teach them to process--and process your chickens. It would be a win, win for all involved.

The last 3 hatches of RIR were only because I could see that I had too many roosters. At that time I think I had maybe 5 clear female pullets. Right now after all of the extended hatching I still have less than 25 females from this year's hatch.