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[Illia]

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No. The "chocolate" color you see on Rhode Island Reds is simply Mahogany playing over a normal golden columbian, like in "Buff" Brahmas. This mahogany is the SAME stuff you see on Black Copper Marans. Imagine a BC hen with that red on her neck throughout her body, and there's your RIR Red coloration.

Crossing one to another breed will just make brown and black mutts, and lose the mahogany. The birds will look a lot like hatchery type RIR's.

Come to think of it, that auction has some typical production type hens, but the cockerel isn't too horribly bad. His tail is at least at a nice angle. But I find it terrible for someone to claim "Show Quality" on birds they never even showed, and all their evidence is in that someone bred the RIR's in the same flock a long time.

Seriously? . . . A neighbor too? Does that mean I can go to some random neighbor who claims to breed RIR's since before his dad, and I can sell them as show quality? Production type RIR's have been around for a LONG time, and most of the Reds out there are indeed production type, even the ones bred in a family for generations.



Aaaanyway, back on a more polite subject. . .

 

[justbugged]

I use a lot of goat cheese these days. My favorite is on stuffed peppers. I hated stuffed peppers as a kid, and it took me more than twenty years to realize that my mother always overcooks them (more like cooked them to death.) So know that I am using brown rice and not overcooking them. Stuffed peppers are delicious. I had to buy some goat cheese for the pizza I made the other day also.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Chickielady wrote:https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=439986

OK maybe it is just me, but are these supposed to be chocolate RIR ?
Aren't SQ RIR supposed to be mahogany ?????
Nice choclate though....

They don't look chocolate to me. They look like your typical hatchery red to me. Maybe it's your monitor.

I'm 7 roosters down!!! WHOOO HOOOOO! They came for me free 5 banties and ended up taking the Lav Orps too. Now I can shuffle everyone around. Well....when it stops raining that is. It's pouring down buckets here now. Looking at Lake Snoqualmie again in the valley.​

 

[jbear]

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Welcome!
4H is really fun, your daughter will have a great time. I just PM'd you btw

 

[justbugged]

Okay I asked DH (or more like I was whining) because I couldn't figure out how to get enough of the boxes from down by Robin's place, to up here in the King/Pierce County area in an affordable manner. Well DH is a great troubleshooter, and came up with the idea of renting a Uhaul. So is anyone interested in going in on the cost of renting a Uhaul for the day? I don't mind driving the truck. I drove the big Uhaul truck from Arizona when my parents moved back in 2004. I know that I can do it, but I am not certain that it would be worth it just for myself. Maybe Puppy can ride shotgun.

 

[justbugged]

A warm welcome to DawnM.

 

[justbugged]

Does anyone know where I could get a show quality Silkie pullet?

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Justbugged, maybe Ultasol? She's in Eastern Washington but she has nice silkies.

OK, so since it's raining to hard to clean coops and reorg everyone outside, I divied up who's left into the sperate broody boxes. Of my 6 BLRW's, I still think 4 of them are boys. If anyone needs a nice Blue Laced Red Wyandotte dude, please let me know. I find wyandotte's harder to sex, so might wait a week or two more, as their saddle feathers are just starting to come in on a few of them. They are around 10 wks old.

 

[Chickielady]

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No. The "chocolate" color you see on Rhode Island Reds is simply Mahogany playing over a normal golden columbian, like in "Buff" Brahmas. This mahogany is the SAME stuff you see on Black Copper Marans. Imagine a BC hen with that red on her neck throughout her body, and there's your RIR Red coloration.

Crossing one to another breed will just make brown and black mutts, and lose the mahogany. The birds will look a lot like hatchery type RIR's.

Come to think of it, that auction has some typical production type hens, but the cockerel isn't too horribly bad. His tail is at least at a nice angle. But I find it terrible for someone to claim "Show Quality" on birds they never even showed, and all their evidence is in that someone bred the RIR's in the same flock a long time.

Seriously? . . . A neighbor too? Does that mean I can go to some random neighbor who claims to breed RIR's since before his dad, and I can sell them as show quality? Production type RIR's have been around for a LONG time, and most of the Reds out there are indeed production type, even the ones bred in a family for generations.



Aaaanyway, back on a more polite subject. . .

Thanks, I just wanted Chocolate Cochins....and this seller KNOWS better (so we thought)

 

[justbugged]

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Thank you I should have known. Maybe Utasol and I can hook up in April in Stevenson. DH said that he would consider going with me. We have friends in Carson, and they have been after us to come visit.


As for the rain, I let the the girls out earlier and they were happily running around the yard until it started to really rain. Just a little bit ago I heard a MEOW out in the garage, well
I had shut the garage door so that the nasty little dogs don't go out chasing chickens, and eaten chicken poop. Well poor kitty was locked in and needed out of the garage. So I open the garage door and out go the nasty little dogs to chase chickens. (Someday I think I may have to beat some nasty little dogs.)

Well out I go into the pouring rain, only to find that all the girls are sitting in the run under the cover. As soon as the girls saw me they started to beg. Well I am a big softy. The girls got Romaine trimmings from QFC. I can pick up produce trimmings and vegie scraps on Wednesdays. I often forget that it is Wednesday until till either to late on Wednesday,or sometimes not until Thursdays.

I just don't know what wrong with my brains. Well at least this week worked out, and I got a great big bag of trimmings. So my girls are very happy, stuffed full, and mostly dry. They are just a bit spoiled, but so are the nasty little dogs.