New Hampshire Reds Question - Page 2

I just can't bring myself to look at his legs...  every time I do I think "Extra Crispy, YUMMY!!!", lol.

Yeah, the legs were the second thing that caught my eye as non-typical for a New Hampshire, the first was too light of color. New Hampshires should be chestnut red, he's more buff than red and the hackles are a little too orange. He's prolly BOxRed(RIR orNH).

Pretty boy.

I wouldn't get rid of him just because of this though, your already crossing him with different type females anyway, so hatch on man!

                                   catdaddy

Have to agree!!! YUMMY! *slurp*

If Bill Braden doesn't have them at this time is there anywhere else to get good quality New Hampshires?

If you can afford them, and he's selling any, Doug Akers in IN has lovely NHs. However, they're a work in progress, fwiw. He got them from a source that imported them from Germany (I think it was), and has been showing them this fall. Gorgeous!

Having off-colored legs is not an indicated that a bird is not of a certain breed and certainly not an indication of a particular cross.

I raise, breed, and show both Barnevelders and Welsummers.  Out of the same batch of chicks from the same parents, I have both nice yellow legs and the more washed out whitish legs.  The latter of course I'll be culling.

God Bless,

Here's a picture Doug sent me last night of his bird that won Best of Breed at the Ohio National last month in a class of about 20 birds:



Again, he is working on color, this is not a perfect bird, but the type is wonderful! He said he may be selling some birds this year, depending on how many chicks he gets hatched off. Email me offline for his contact info.

Since this thread has become a bit of a tutorial for the breed I would like to point out again that the breed is New Hampshire's.  To refer to them as New Hampshire Red's would be to imply that there are Rhode Island Red's, New Hampshire Red's, Ohio Reds, etc.  The Rhode Island is the "Red" and as it happened, got in its beginning it Rhode Island Red.  So there is only one "Red and that is the Rhode Island.  New Hampshire's are are just that ("New Hampshire's").

I know many hatcheries use the New Hampshire Red designation but it is incorrect unless one considers that the differnence in RIR and New Hampshire's in many hatcheries is little more than the flip of a coin.

Ok off my soap box now.  Just saying that if you call a prominent breeder and ask for NHR you might get a cooler reception than if you named them correctly

Greathorse I know what saying..

"The thing with the Rhode Island Red that alot of people dont know is that the breed is a Red and not Rhode Island. I think is was best said by Underwood...
The R I Red may be the only breed of poultry that has it's color as part of it's name. In most poultry breeds various colors or color patterns existing within a body type account for the several varieties
found in the breed. Other breeds are generically referred to by their type name such as Rocks, Leghorns, Cochins, Cornish, etc. and then the variety moniker is stuck in front much like a first name is used to identify various members of a human family. But, when we refer to our American breed we use their "family name", we call them Reds; their color not their type distinction.
They are Rhode Island REDS, not red Rhode Islands. They are RED chickens that were developed in the state of Rhode Island, not Rhode Island chickens that happen to be red."

Chris

Whitish is different than flat out white.  Plus, the bird lacks the body type for New Hampshires as well as differs in coloring.  That's not to say he isn't a pretty bird.