The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Fred's Hens]

BTW, @desertmarcy I love that Barred Rock male you won with at the Apache show. Marcia, he truly is a beautiful bird. Congrats.

 

[henny1129]

Hello everyone! I got a Rhode Island Red about 6 months ago. I recently started researching Rhode Island Reds and am starting to think our little Cherry Bomb might actually be a Heritage Bred Rhode Island Red. If she's not, don't feel bad telling me she isn't. I am just curious. We have a Buckeye and Buckeye's are a rare chicken breed, so it's fun to know you own one. Here is a picture of her. Any advice/thoughts would be appreciated! (I thought I would ask you guys since you all own the Heritage Bred Rhode Island Reds and have experience)

If you need a better picture just tell me. Thanks!
henny1129

 

[Fred's Hens]

Hello everyone! I got a Rhode Island Red about 6 months ago. I recently started researching Rhode Island Reds and am starting to think our little Cherry Bomb might actually be a Heritage Bred Rhode Island Red. If she's not, don't feel bad telling me she isn't. I am just curious. We have a Buckeye and Buckeye's are a rare chicken breed, so it's fun to know you own one. Here is a picture of her. Any advice/thoughts would be appreciated! (I thought I would ask you guys since you all own the Heritage Bred Rhode Island Reds and have experience)

If you need a better picture just tell me. Thanks!

henny1129

She's not. She's not bred to the Rhode Island Red standard for the breed, so she' just a production red bird. The tail is straight up, which is a sober fault and often called squirrel tail. I'm sure she'll lay some eggs for you and perhaps one day you can get some real Rhode Island Red birds. Study the lines on your female then study the lines on females shown on this thread. You're welcome to come here and gawk anytime.

 

[henny1129]

Thank you for the help Fred's Hens! I thought her tail was a bit weird, but I didn't know what it was. The birds are awful pretty here, might just have to take you up on your offer to come and gawk!

 

[desertmarcy]

BTW, @desertmarcy I love that Barred Rock male you won with at the Apache show. Marcia, he truly is a beautiful bird. Congrats.

Thank you. You know he also won Super Show Champion at the Safford Show in January.

 

[Fred's Hens]

This is a good teaching moment. The difference in hatchery stock and bred-to-standard fowl is much more than just color. To the nubie, the first thing their eye sees is color, but there is so much more. Notice that the RIR standard calls from black(dark beetle green) tail feathers. Note the standard calls for the Reds to have a long, flat back. A true red only has a 20 degree rise on the male and 10 degrees on the female. While this pullet below is far from perfect, no bird is, yet is much closer to the standard's ideal than the bird you showed above.



Finally the feather color. The standard states that the color must be dark, lustrous red.

 

[henny1129]

This is a good teaching moment. The difference in hatchery stock and bred-to-standard fowl is much more than just color. To the nubie, the first thing their eye sees is color, but there is so much more. Notice that the RIR standard calls from black(dark beetle green) tail feathers. Note the standard calls for the Reds to have a long, flat back. A true red only has a 20 degree rise on the male and 10 degrees on the female. While this pullet below is far from perfect, no bird is, yet is much closer to the standard's ideal than the bird you showed above. Finally the feather color. The standard states that the color must be dark, lustrous red.

Thank you so much for the information! I am starting to understand the difference now!

 

[cmom]

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[cmom]

This is a good teaching moment. The difference in hatchery stock and bred-to-standard fowl is much more than just color. To the nubie, the first thing their eye sees is color, but there is so much more. Notice that the RIR standard calls from black(dark beetle green) tail feathers. Note the standard calls for the Reds to have a long, flat back. A true red only has a 20 degree rise on the male and 10 degrees on the female. While this pullet below is far from perfect, no bird is, yet is much closer to the standard's ideal than the bird you showed above.



Finally the feather color. The standard states that the color must be dark, lustrous red.

This is one of my males that won a champion and one of my females that won a champion.