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Hi AletaG! I am really busy outside this time of year but I haven't forgotten you. It's going to be three or four more months before I let go of any of my boys but I know how to reach you. It will be nice to have this strain predominately in the PNW. They are such beautiful and docile birds...

My Ron Fogle shipped chicks are now sixteen weeks. The hatched egg chicks are twelve weeks. Nice birds and I enjoy watching them everyday. Twelve week old pullet. Sixteen week old cockerel. Another twelve week old. I like the dark beak. The dark feathers. The dark horn on the legs, the...

My Fogle flock are around fourteen weeks now. The shipped chicks are a couple weeks older than the hatched egg chicks. A lot of molting going on but the new feathers coming in are really dark! Some of them are showing nice broad backs from stem to stern. It is looking like seven females and...

I have all seventeen HRIR cockerels running together free range every day. There is seldom to slim sparring between them. Such good boys. They run together in a yard with eighteen Silkies and a flock of barnyard layers. I pen all in separate pens in the barn at night and they all run together...

Hello AletaG. Yep. I'm outside with the flock and tending to the vegetable garden this time of year. I know exactly where Port Hadlock is. Your a ferry ride away from me. I'll get in touch with you about a couple cockerels.

Yes. When it recently dawned on me that ten of the eleven shipped chicks were male and seven of the eleven eggs I hatched were too.....It kind of made me sick to my stomach when I figured in what it was going to cost me to feed all those boys over the course of a year. Those five maybe six...

I just got the message. Thank you Mr. Blosl for the heads up. My Fogle flock are just now twelve weeks old. Out of twenty two birds, it now looks like I got five pullets and seventeen cockerels! Those are not great percentages. There is one that could up my pullets to six but still.... I won't...

...And some went with both chicks and eggs... Thanks again Ron for giving people around the country a chance to raise, preserve, and just plain enjoy your strain. Going out to the barn yard is a joy every day for me.

There are two feed sources within ten miles of me. Selection for poultry is not great but I finally chose Nutrena Turkey/Game Bird grower pellets to ferment. I add ground pumpkin seed to the mash to bump protein. The seed is sold in the wild bird and squirrel section and lists 30% protein. I...

Living on an island makes travel expensive and difficult. So far, anyone I've talked to locally rambles on about Production Reds when I tell them I am raising Heritage RIR. They are clueless. There is no shortage of people that would be thrilled to take any pullets but finding safe homes for...

Great advice. Looks like I may have ten or more cockerels to choose from and it's going to smoke my head to try and narrow those guys down to a couple. I'll be checking in with you too with a bunch of images of the contenders to sift through. For now, I just watch these babies eat, grow, and...

They are beautiful! Good pictures. I really like this one. I hope my bunch keep getting darker like yours. Each week that goes by they get better and better. I also noticed the big chests on these chicks. Your lucky to just get a couple males. I've got a hunch 3/4 of my chicks are male.

I hatched a dozen or so Production chicks from my layer flock while waiting for my real reds to arrive from Ron Fogle. The four I just butchered weren't out of this group in the above picture. They were raised by a broody. Not a lot of meat on them but they tasted good. Those production birds...

Thanks for the feed back. At nine weeks and six weeks old, it surely is too soon to know a lot but I really need the the Red breeders to let me know what they see and tell me straight. I caught up around ten young birds that look cockerel to me. Took some close ups but it was hard keeping...

Hah! It's true! A few of the cockerels are so striking that you can spot them out of the crowd across the yard. The oldest pullets are as large as the boys already. My husband keeps looking at them filling up on groceries and asks me when I will cull. I told him not this summer and not over...

Yes. The Production chicks have just about finished feathering out. They are four weeks old. Doing pretty well keeping up with the big kids free ranging all day and put up in the barn every night. The next batch are the hatched Reds. About six weeks old. The oldest and largest Reds hatched...

This beginner is checking in with new pic's of my Ron Fogle chicks. I still have eleven of the shipped chicks and eleven of the hatched egg chicks. They sure do like their groceries! Good golly they do like to eat! Sure is easy to tell the old reds from the production chicks. I run them...

All my flock from day old to layer get fermented feed from day one. They are all thriving on it. I ferment chick starter for the hatch-lings until four weeks. Then they go on All purpose ferment for the remainder of their life. I'm not a feed expert but mix my mash with what works for my birds...

I've got twenty two single comb Ron Fogle chicks and three Roslyn Pickens RIR bantam pullets. They all free range and look good.

Holy Carp! That is bad news! I've been away from the thread for a few days. Just came back on here and read this. Just know this Ron. If you ever needed to get some of your blood lines back, just let me know. When your birds start producing for me, you can have first dibs. They are looking...