I won auction for 8+ eggs from dinahmoe about 6 weeks ago on BYC. She sent me 13 eggs (bless her heart). Anyway out of the 13 eggs, 10 made it to lock down and all 10 hatched. They are now 17 days old and here they are with there hatchmates, (2 Reese line Barred Rocks). These are some of the sweetest RIR's I've hatched yet. Am still waiting for my babies from greathorse who has the Greg Chamness (Bob Blosl) lines. Thanks so much Gloria.
Jim
Wow look who made it on the Red page. I was talking about you last night with my friend Chuck from Arkansas and told him I sent you ten chicks and Ihoped I did not shoot my self in the foot sending them to you as some of these may turn out to be great show birds and breeders. I told him I trusted you that if I sent a bird that I could breed from that I could send you a box and you could send them back to me to breed from and then return them back to you. You are the first person to receive chicks from me who is not a master breeder who I partnered with two years ago. I have a fellow in Ohio, South Carolina and Chuck in Arkansas who I trusted my blood lines with. You can not cross these bantams with other Red Bantams as they came down from a cross 25 years ago from a Large fowl MOHAWK Red male and a Lee Roy Jones bantam female. I breed these birds down for 20 years till I got the to be small in size or to a bantam weight. I did not loose the large fowl look or type. Most Rhode Island Red Bantams were crossed with Cochin's and old English in the 1930s to make the bantam gene shrink down the large fowl bird. however, we also go the long and drooped down wing car rage from the old English and the wide Cochin feathers which today haunt us with Red Bantams that have backs like a Plymouth rock.Hello fellow RIR enthusiasts. Just wanted to post pics of my new kid's first day outside. These guys are way to valuable for unsupervised outside ventures. I use an old ferret cage as a "playpen". They were not very sure what the strange green substance under their feet was.....lol. Thanks again Bob for trusting me with these gorgeous little guys. Can you remind me again how old they were when you shipped them? I think you said 4 weeks on these guys and 2 weeks on the 6 smaller ones, but I don't remember. Thanks again!
The flash went off i the second pic and made them look much lighter than they are. I still have not taken pics of the younger kids. I will post them when I do.
