The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[docdandc]

I am going to take some pictures of him this week to send to Poultry Press..I will post some then.

excellent, thanks Matt.

Dan

 

[Mumsy]

I attended the Winter Brisk show in Chehalis, put on by Washington Feather Fanciers. I was there as a spectator and looking for heritage RIR. There were maybe five or six when I walked through at 8:30 am before judging. I took pictures. I have no idea who owns these birds or how they placed. We left before they were rated.

 

[ronniewayne]

I went to the haynesville ,louisiana show yesterday ..it seem to be mostly bantams but in the large fowl .a nice red hen took bb and best american...i dont know the ladies name who owned her but she was a nice looking hen..

 

[Robert Blosl]

This is a very nice male. He kind of reminds me of Matts male that I saw at his farm the other night.

Long body, flat top line a good colored bird.

It would be fun to see who this line came from as I know of no one in the Pacific North West that can breed anything like this bird anymore.

At one time there where two or three good breeders in the 1960s that had Reds like this guy.

Thanks for posting and try to locate the exibitor. I will contact my Frined Jim Volk who I grew up with and find out who showed this bird.

Bob

 

[immyjay54]

I have a question that is more aimed to (Bob as I call the RIR man and NYREDS who I know is a judge.) Please don't think that I am picking on you guys and don't jump down my throat over my question.
First off, Is or is not the RIR supposed to have a degree of raise to the tails? I notice on some of the pictures, that the tails are really flat with the back.
I'm going to post 2 pictures, these are my boys, because I don't want to nit pick at someone else's birds and cause any bad talk. I can say for sure that the different way that they are standing makes them look more brick like. In these two pictures, the first bird is a little narrower in the back but when standing right, his back is as straight as it could be. Just a little more rise to the tail.


The next boy is heavier, broader in the back but not as straight and his tail is a little lower on the degree. I'm not asking you to judge my birds, just using them to explain what I'm asking. I don't care if you judge them though. I just took these pictures a couple of days ago. They are right about 7 1/2 months old. Anyone here can give an opinion, I don't mean that only Bob or Bill can answer.

 

[MagicChicken]

I attended the Winter Brisk show in Chehalis, put on by Washington Feather Fanciers. I was there as a spectator and looking for heritage RIR. There were maybe five or six when I walked through at 8:30 am before judging. I took pictures. I have no idea who owns these birds or how they placed. We left before they were rated.

This is a very nice male. He kind of reminds me of Matts male that I saw at his farm the other night.

Long body, flat top line a good colored bird.

It would be fun to see who this line came from as I know of no one in the Pacific North West that can breed anything like this bird anymore.

At one time there where two or three good breeders in the 1960s that had Reds like this guy.

Thanks for posting and try to locate the exibitor. I will contact my Frined Jim Volk who I grew up with and find out who showed this bird.

Bob

Question for Bob: Why do you prefer that male over the other one (the top photo in Mumsy's post)? I'm asking because I think I'm seeing a bit of a hunch-back look to the male you like along with a bit of a slope up to the rear, and the male above it seems to have a straighter back. But the male above it also seems to have a back that slopes down to the rear. I'm trying to figure out the hunch-back thing. The pullet (bottom pic in Mumsy's post quoted above) has a more extreme rounded or hunched-looking back. I was at a show in Tucson this weekend and virtually all of the RIR pullets there had those hunched backs. I thought they were supposed to be flat-backed. Trying to calibrate my eyeballs for a good RIR bird. Going crosseyed instead.

Is the hunch-back thing what is referred to as "roach-back?"

Sarah

Edited to add that I do think the male Bob likes has a deeper chest and overall more brick-like shape. I'm mostly wondering about the flat back issues.

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

This is a very nice male. He kind of reminds me of Matts male that I saw at his farm the other night.

Long body, flat top line a good colored bird.

It would be fun to see who this line came from as I know of no one in the Pacific North West that can breed anything like this bird anymore.

At one time there where two or three good breeders in the 1960s that had Reds like this guy.

Thanks for posting and try to locate the exibitor. I will contact my Frined Jim Volk who I grew up with and find out who showed this bird.


Bob

If those are Bantams, then I am going to assume those are John Jensen's. He breeds Bantam S.C. RIR's here in Oregon.

 

[ChickMagnet207]

Its my understanding they should have two parallel lines back and the bottom line to form a brick shape. I would assume they would have to be level as well. like this;

 

[Mumsy]

This is a very nice male. He kind of reminds me of Matts male that I saw at his farm the other night.

Long body, flat top line a good colored bird.

It would be fun to see who this line came from as I know of no one in the Pacific North West that can breed anything like this bird anymore.

At one time there where two or three good breeders in the 1960s that had Reds like this guy.

Thanks for posting and try to locate the exibitor. I will contact my Frined Jim Volk who I grew up with and find out who showed this bird.

Bob

There were five or six LF RIR of this type. I didn't take pictures of two females because they were in poor condition in my opinion aka as dirty and rough feathered. There were exhibitors from California, Idaho, and Oregon in attendance but I have no idea where these birds came from. I am watching for show results to see how these birds did in judging. It was hard taking a picture of any of them because they were moving around the cage so much.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Quote: I got a phone call this afternoon from Jim Volk and he wanted to tell me that Jim Adkins judged the show there and was braging about a Rhode Isalnd Red he put on Champion Row a week ago in Flordia. He said it was from my old blood lines. Which was Matt 1616 male we pictured a few days ago. He said Jim was going crazy over this male and really liked him.

Jim Won Champion large fowl of the show at Centralia on a White Rock male.

He told me the meat cutter from up near seattle showed some birds he dont know who owned this bird you photograped. He did not win big but he still has pretty good type for me.

Many of the Washington show guys have reds from different strains and cross them then they dont look worth a darn.

I told him in a year or so you will see some very nice large fowl Reds at this show. That is if we can get some young started chicks to Washington this spring.

Nice to talk to him.

Matt the word is getting out by word of mouth. Thats great. bob