The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Beekissed]

Must be free!

 

[cmom]

I've been wondering at the typical cost of a half dozen eggs and the shipping from a good line of breeder quality, heirloom lines RIR?

http://www.hilltop-farm.info/eggs

 

[cmom]

Must be free!

Good luck...

 

[Matt1616]

I've been wondering at the typical cost of a half dozen eggs and the shipping from a good line of breeder quality, heirloom lines RIR?

Most people that breed Pure/Show Rhode Island Reds do not sell eggs.

 

[Beekissed]

http://www.hilltop-farm.info/eggs

Thank you!

 

[Beekissed]

Most people that breed Pure/Show Rhode Island Reds do not sell eggs.

Do they sell chicks instead or only cockerels and pullets?

 

[cmom]

Quote: My birds came from birds I got from Matt. Matt has excellent stock. I am very happy with the offspring I have that came from birds I got from him. A cockerel and pullet I hatched out in the spring of 2014, in a show last fall, both got Champion American. (Matt didn't go to that show so I was lucky

because he usually wins) I do ship eggs but only in the spring after I do some test hatches to check fertility. I want people who get eggs from me to have the best chance of the eggs hatching. There are no guarantees, but hopefully the hatches will be good. I am really working at seeing our line prosper. Another good place to get nice quality pure/show RIRs, are at poultry shows. Many of us do take sale birds. Good luck and have fun...

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: This is going to sound selfish but I keep all of my RIR chicks until I'm sure I have lots of pullets. Then I start selling off day old chicks and the smallest roosters. But since the HRIR birds take a while to mature I want the earliest birds of the season to be mine. Then I can still try to pick out breeders for the next year before my weather turns to ice here. I had to hatch later into the season this year to get the number of pullets I wanted. So I'll still be culling birds much later than I'd like. But I got my pick of the roosters as everything I hatched in January - March just produced rooster after rooster.

As for eggs I don't ship them and I haven't had any local interest in them. I'm thinking I read somewhere to charge half the price of a chick for each egg. For me that would be way to much to pay for eggs as 6 eggs would cost between $24 and $30. I'd rather get one good pullet than 6 shipped eggs.

 

[Beekissed]

My birds came from birds I got from Matt. Matt has excellent stock. I am very happy with the offspring I have that came from birds I got from him. A cockerel and pullet I hatched out in the spring of 2014, in a show last fall, both got Champion American. (Matt didn't go to that show so I was lucky

because he usually wins) I do ship eggs but only in the spring after I do some test hatches to check fertility. I want people who get eggs from me to have the best chance of the eggs hatching. There are no guarantees, but hopefully the hatches will be good. I am really working at seeing our line prosper. Another good place to get nice quality pure/show RIRs, are at poultry shows. Many of us do take sale birds. Good luck and have fun...

Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't know of any good RIR breeders in my area, so buying them local isn't an option for me. I'm not really looking to breed them for continued development of the breed, but just to add some quality birds as side dressing to the breed I'm working on. Just to have some pretty in the flock that also earns their feed. Can't really find that from a hatchery RIR nowadays.

This is going to sound selfish but I keep all of my RIR chicks until I'm sure I have lots of pullets. Then I start selling off day old chicks and the smallest roosters. But since the HRIR birds take a while to mature I want the earliest birds of the season to be mine. Then I can still try to pick out breeders for the next year before my weather turns to ice here. I had to hatch later into the season this year to get the number of pullets I wanted. So I'll still be culling birds much later than I'd like. But I got my pick of the roosters as everything I hatched in January - March just produced rooster after rooster.

As for eggs I don't ship them and I haven't had any local interest in them. I'm thinking I read somewhere to charge half the price of a chick for each egg. For me that would be way to much to pay for eggs as 6 eggs would cost between $24 and $30. I'd rather get one good pullet than 6 shipped eggs.

I would too, but I don't know of anyone local that are breeding good RIRs. Now that they've cancelled all the shows nearby due to this Avian Flu crapola, there's no chance of picking up any birds there this spring.

 

[cmom]

Quote: This is going to sound selfish but I keep all of my RIR chicks until I'm sure I have lots of pullets. Then I start selling off day old chicks and the smallest roosters. But since the HRIR birds take a while to mature I want the earliest birds of the season to be mine. Then I can still try to pick out breeders for the next year before my weather turns to ice here. I had to hatch later into the season this year to get the number of pullets I wanted. So I'll still be culling birds much later than I'd like. But I got my pick of the roosters as everything I hatched in January - March just produced rooster after rooster.

As for eggs I don't ship them and I haven't had any local interest in them. I'm thinking I read somewhere to charge half the price of a chick for each egg. For me that would be way to much to pay for eggs as 6 eggs would cost between $24 and $30. I'd rather get one good pullet than 6 shipped eggs.

I do ship eggs but If I can get live birds I do but now I only get them from one trusted person with my same line. We make arrangements to usually meet up at a show we are both attending. We live in different states. My hatches were later too this past spring and I seemed to hatch out more males. I have have my eyes on a couple of my boys for my breeding pens. My pullets I'm still watching. My older hens are absolutely beautiful. I should have taken one or two to show last weekend but didn't. I'll try to remember to get some pictures. I recently got all of the birds that needed to be banded, banded. After the holidays I will be setting up my breeding pens. Right now I have males that I need to sell in some of the pens to make room for my breeders. My husband wanted to process them but we still have a lot of chicken in our freezer. I haven't counted them but am probably down to around 40.