Did you get them from a hatchery or a feed store?
I would never by birds from a feed store, people pick them up and never put them were they belong and most of the feed stores never know what they have.
As far as hatcheries, there are good ones out there and even more bad ones out there. Just...
I am interested in seeing what you can find.
Just keep this in mind though.
The New Hampshire (NH) was bred solely from the Rhode Island Red (RIR) to create a faster maturing meat producing breed not a faster maturing egg production breed. This means if you cross a RIR to a NH you only...
Then you will be calling them a incorrect breed name.
Childish aren't we?
Judging by the way you talk and type I will assume that your still in grade school, if so I will just let you know that I have been raising, breeding, showing and researching poultry since before you was born.
As I...
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It's kind of like people thinking that the Rhode Island Red and the Rhode Island White are the same breed or how people think that there is such a breed as a single comb Rhode Island White.
As for why there is no "Red" in the New Hampshire breed name. Well that has to do with the...
Nope your wrong, You need to learn your breeds. The breed name is a New Hampshire.
Check out the American Poultry Association and or get a Standard of Perfection.
http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/
Also as I said before a Rhode Island Red/ New Hampshire cross is nothing but a backcross.
I have...
First there is no such breed as a New Hampshire Red, The breed is a New Hampshire (NO RED).
Second The Production Red is not a breed.
A true Rhode Island Red bred to a New Hampshire is just a back cross not a Production Red since the New Hampshire was bred solely from the Rhode Island Red...