The Rhodebar thread!

[nicalandia]

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this will make it worst...

 

[nicalandia]

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they can actually produce Real Rhodebars if the have some RIR males... an F1 is all you need to reprdocue the Rhodebar.. eWh/eWh b+/b+ RIR male mated to a e+/eWh B/- F1 female would produce.. 50% e+/eWh chicks.. these are the keepers and just wait for the B/b+ males... cross this males back to the F1 females and you will get pure e+/e+ B/B males...

 

[melroseladi]

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It might make him worse but it sure has brought peace to the brooder with the other chicks. No fighting between them other then the usual pecking order pecks. This one was relentless. He goes after the two smaller ones especially but even goes after the bigger ones. He chases them, jumps on them, pulls out feathers, pecks them hard and makes them scream. Much nicer with him in isolation.

Penny

 

[dheltzel]

It might make him worse but it sure has brought peace to the brooder with the other chicks. No fighting between them other then the usual pecking order pecks. This one was relentless. He goes after the two smaller ones especially but even goes after the bigger ones. He chases them, jumps on them, pulls out feathers, pecks them hard and makes them scream. Much nicer with him in isolation.

Penny

A chick with an attitude! Maybe you can sell him to someone as a "guard rooster", if he did that to a hawk, it might end badly for the hawk.

 

[RedRidge]

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they can actually produce Real Rhodebars if the have some RIR males... an F1 is all you need to reprdocue the Rhodebar.. eWh/eWh b+/b+ RIR male mated to a e+/eWh B/- F1 female would produce.. 50% e+/eWh chicks.. these are the keepers and just wait for the B/b+ males... cross this males back to the F1 females and you will get pure e+/e+ B/B males...

@ nicalandia. .. I have a large group of customers who I provide production layers to. Most live in cities where roos are not allowed. They are all on a two year rotation. .. I replenish their high producing hens every 2 years (half each year). We take their 2-3 yr old production hens back in the late spring, slaughter them, return them to them for stewing, and provide them with 2-6 new pullets who are close to pol. This has worked great for years now as all the city folks know they have a steady supply of eggs from their own back yard and they don't have to worry about where they will get more every 2 years as production begins to drop off. So... providing laying pullets every year is a big part of my poultry business. Very few get bred. Now. .. The HRIR? That's a different story. Those are top notch show quality birds. I sell those to people interested in true quality heritage RIR. I have many "parts" to my poultry business... replacement pullets for city folks is just one part. I also sell about 15-20 dozen eggs each week. I keep three "groups" of chickens. .. My HRIR, Rhodebars, and a group of production layers. We also slaughter most of the cockerels and all production layers over the age of 3 twice a year.

 

[RedRidge]

 

 
. He is relentless and will probably be the first one to go to freezer camp if he doesn't settle down after a stint in isolation.



 
Penny

this will make it worst...

It might make him worse but it sure has brought peace to the brooder with the other chicks. No fighting between them other then the usual pecking order pecks. This one was relentless. He goes after the two smaller ones especially but even goes after the bigger ones. He chases them, jumps on them, pulls out feathers, pecks them hard and makes them scream. Much nicer with him in isolation.

Penny

Tell him how lucky he is to have his own hotel room. Around here he wouldn't be that fortunate. ;-)

 

[nicalandia]

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Wow I love your business...

 

[melroseladi]

Tell him how lucky he is to have his own hotel room. Around here he wouldn't be that fortunate. ;-)

LOL, he is not to happy. I have been known to butcher small cockerels who are nasty even though they don't give much meat. I am going to try and grow all of these guys out and see how fast they grow out to butcher weight. I had a black sex-link male that grew fast to a good weight and I am hoping the same with these guys.

Penny

 

[RedRidge]

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Wow I love your business...

Nothing magical, just logical. I farm for a living and for the most part we are self sufficient. We have a large year round garden and I raise 4 different types of livestock and each type must be self supporting at a minimum. The production layers help pay for my purebred birds who are not as profitable. Just like the sheep where the majority of my profits comes from meat (as opposed to eggs). The cattle profits are split between beef and breeding stock. For the past couple of years the bees have barely been a break even as the weather has not been great for a tremendous surplus of honey. We hope this year will be a better year. It seems from year to yeast when profits in one area are up they are down in another area, but we eat well and I'm blessed to no longer program computers for a living and instead I can farm which is my passion.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Nothing magical, just logical. I farm for a living and for the most part we are self sufficient. We have a large year round garden and I raise 4 different types of livestock and each type must be self supporting at a minimum. The production layers help pay for my purebred birds who are not as profitable. Just like the sheep where the majority of my profits comes from meat (as opposed to eggs). The cattle profits are split between beef and breeding stock. For the past couple of years the bees have barely been a break even as the weather has not been great for a tremendous surplus of honey. We hope this year will be a better year. It seems from year to yeast when profits in one area are up they are down in another area, but we eat well and I'm blessed to no longer program computers for a living and instead I can farm which is my passion.

Hmmm...my purebred birds are most profitable but I'm small scale. Chicks and hatching eggs pay for my hobby and then some. With the egg business, it buys the feed and our eggs but no profit. Good job!