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All right. I bet when this thread was started no one ever realized it would go on for 4 years. I have the, I guess what one would call the Hambar mutt rooster. Hambar in looks but not the best specimen. I have read that to get the double barring you can take it back to a New Hampshire and the daughter of that mating back to the father to try and creat a double barred rooster to start your breeding from. I then noticed that some call the hen a New Hampshire and you also see a New Hampshire Red. Is there a differnce in these two chickens? I have a local breeder that I believe is breeding true New Hampshire chickens if that is what I am looking for to take my rooster to, to start with. His are show quality, pure bred heritage chickens, not hatchery chickens. Not out rageous in price but $8 a chick. I want to know if the New Hampshire is the hen I need without the Red at the end of it's name and that I am looking at two, slightly different chickens? It seems that when I look these two birds up I can find information on both breeds. The New Hampshire Red coming from a combination of RIR.