The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[Chris09]

biomistake,
The Rooster in picture 4 and 5 needs to be culled out. He has Black in the surface color of the breast and wings.

Chris

 

[theblackridge16]

I just got my RIR eggs in from a breeder in GA. It was between their Heritage Delawares or RIR's. I went with the RIR's because I thought their breeding stock looked really good. I was looking for something that looked as close to some of the ones I've seen on this thread. I found some that I think look pretty good and hope my hatch goes well! wish me luck and look for pics!

 

[biomistake]

I figured so from all the catch up reading I have been doing and you confirmed it was a roo so to the culling pen he goes after the quarantine period is over. Thanks chris

 

[Robert Blosl]

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They will make you happy he has a very good strain of birds. You can get Delawares latter when they make the crosses on the new hamp females and the barred rock males. It will take about two years and then they will look very nice. bob

 

[X2Farm]

Question... I've got a few cockerels. I was wondering if yall could tell me if any of them have potential....They look alright, to my inexperienced eye... not the best, but not the worst... What are thier specific faults?


#1 5mo approx

#2 4mo approx

#3 5mo approx (his comb leaves MUCH to be desired!)

 

[theblackridge16]

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I cant help you either but those are very good looking Reds!

 

[Muscovies]

Nice Heritage Rhode Island Reds

 

[Robert Blosl]

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looking at these young birds they have very dark beak color so that means they should have good dark surface color when they are crowing. They have green tails shooting out so that is good sign and they are trying to have brick shape and flat top lines. It will take time for them to get their breast meat on till they get older. Over all very nice birds. Where did you get your start from? bob

 

[X2Farm]

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looking at these young birds they have very dark beak color so that means they should have good dark surface color when they are crowing. They have green tails shooting out so that is good sign and they are trying to have brick shape and flat top lines. It will take time for them to get their breast meat on till they get older. Over all very nice birds. Where did you get your start from? bob

Bob, wow, thank you! I must confess... I have no good RIR on my property. These are from a batch of 15 packing peanuts (all roo's), via Ideal Hatchery and McMurray. I have been watching them all grow out, and there is SUCH a difference in each of them. Very suprising to me. They would be from more production strain lines, as hatcheries seem to have. Some are bright fire enging red, some are vulture hocked, some are roach backed, some have thin ruler width bodies, but these three were the best looking out of all 15. Kind of a bit shocking, to me.

All of em are actually sloted for the freezer, but I think I might hold these three back for a while, and see how they mature in the next few months!

I appreciate the time you took to critique these birds for me, I was hoping my eye was not decieving me, in how I viewed these 3 boys. Thank You!!!

 

[Robert Blosl]

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looking at these young birds they have very dark beak color so that means they should have good dark surface color when they are crowing. They have green tails shooting out so that is good sign and they are trying to have brick shape and flat top lines. It will take time for them to get their breast meat on till they get older. Over all very nice birds. Where did you get your start from? bob

Bob, wow, thank you! I must confess... I have no good RIR on my property. These are from a batch of 15 packing peanuts (all roo's), via Ideal Hatchery and McMurray. I have been watching them all grow out, and there is SUCH a difference in each of them. Very suprising to me. They would be from more production strain lines, as hatcheries seem to have. Some are bright fire enging red, some are vulture hocked, some are roach backed, some have thin ruler width bodies, but these three were the best looking out of all 15. Kind of a bit shocking, to me.

All of em are actually sloted for the freezer, but I think I might hold these three back for a while, and see how they mature in the next few months!

I appreciate the time you took to critique these birds for me, I was hoping my eye was not decieving me, in how I viewed these 3 boys. Thank You!!!

you can see they have crossed dark large fowl into thier lines maybe Mr. Fox did at Ideal. Look at the black in the beaks. You can see some dark feathers on the saddle.

Feed store Reds dont have color like this.

They are trying hard to be R I Reds. maybe score 90 points.

They are better than some pictures people send me.
bob