Rhode Island Red - Standard Bred

[Robbie]

QR_BBPOST My only point here was some RIR do have that bar....and it seems to help with deep mahogany colour....and others dont have it. They shouldnt-but since i have both production and heritage and my heritage are much darker it might be interesting to see if the truly dark birds do have. They shouldnt. Sorry for being off topic. Carry on....

I'm not so sure that the dark bar is correlated to better colour. I had a bright orange rooster, he had the best dark bars ever.

Are bars a disqualification for RIR's? If not, though I'd guess you'd lose points if the feather wasn't red all the way down.

[kenya]

Al ask Darren Smale from St Mary's he has some of the best RIR bantams around.

[Killerbunny]

Didn't see it as DQ in the standard.

[thegawd]

Thanks for the lead Kenya!

Well I finally took some pics of one of my breeding pens, these are the green bands. no flash as the batteries were dying on my phone. I'll get pics of my other breeding group tommorow.

[Skinny rooster]

Oooooooh ya, that's it, so beautiful!!!! Lol. I didn't know you could have barring? I honestly can't remember what the chicks looked like, I think mine were all reddish orange and not chipmunk. I had a hard time selling chicks and gave up when work was taking up all my days. I really regret doing that because word of mouth is a powerful advertisement that takes a little time, to this day I still get people calling me to ask if I have any. I gave up to soon, there is my lesson for anyone new to breeding who has them right now.

[thegawd]

THANKS!!!

heres some pics of day old chicks. i have some lb leghorns and some leghorn x in there... ill take some pics today at a week old. I have a handfull more hatching today as I speak or write LOL. some of Kathys reds and some more of the green bands.

[Robbie]

Gawd those chicks and you RIR's are lovely! Can we see some RIR egg photos when you get a chance? Thanks!

[thegawd]

why thank you Robbie! I took a pic in the sun, true to color of some of my unwashed hatching eggs. they are large and I put in a leghorn egg for comparison.

[thegawd]

Week old chicks. ill update every week until full grown if you remind me LOL.

[Robbie]

OOOOOhhhhh those eggs are fantastic!!!! And such lovely chicks!
It would be wonderful if you could post weekly chick pics!