German New Hampshire

[The Old Yolks]

Catdaddyfro,
Thank you for being kind and doing some footwork for me. I really do appreciate it. I'm a novice when it comes to heritage breeds and you who have these birds and have been breeding them for many years can be a little intimidating to those of us who haven't. Mr. Braden has been nothing but kind, overly generous and extrememly helpful to me. He really wants to see my efforts be successful. I am trying to do things the right way and I went to a person who has a very respected reputation to get my birds. They are only 12 weeks old and I'm sure they will change alot in the next year. I will forever be grateful to Mr. Braden for helping me get started. Walt once said worry about the color last, as far as I can see Mr. Braden has done all the work in getting their conformation intact, I don't mind working on their feathers. It will be a great learning experience for me. I think I will just go back to lurking, it is much easier to pick up all the good points of information when you don't feel like you have to be defensive. John Farmer your birds are really beautiful, my hope is to one day have a flock like that as my daily viewing pleasure. Thank you for sharing your picture. Have a blessed day everyone. Thank you again for your comments.
Nan

 

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Catdaddyfro,
Thank you for being kind and doing some footwork for me. I really do appreciate it. I'm a novice when it comes to heritage breeds and you who have these birds and have been breeding them for many years can be a little intimidating to those of us who haven't. Mr. Braden has been nothing but kind, overly generous and extrememly helpful to me. He really wants to see my efforts be successful. I am trying to do things the right way and I went to a person who has a very respected reputation to get my birds. They are only 12 weeks old and I'm sure they will change alot in the next year. I will forever be grateful to Mr. Braden for helping me get started. Walt once said worry about the color last, as far as I can see Mr. Braden has done all the work in getting their conformation intact, I don't mind working on their feathers. It will be a great learning experience for me. I think I will just go back to lurking, it is much easier to pick up all the good points of information when you don't feel like you have to be defensive. John Farmer your birds are really beautiful, my hope is to one day have a flock like that as my daily viewing pleasure. Thank you for sharing your picture. Have a blessed day everyone. Thank you again for your comments.
Nan

Bill is a great guy. If you go to his web site Land of Tobe you will see some of his New Hampshires. He did get some eggs from me last year and they were GNH but I don't know what your birds are out of. I guess I would have to assume that the parents of your birds came from my eggs. But I really don't know for sure.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: What type of Barred Rocks does he have? .... if you know

Not an easy site to find things in. I found the picture gallery but none of the Barred Rocks.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Catdaddyfro,
Thank you for being kind and doing some footwork for me. I really do appreciate it. I'm a novice when it comes to heritage breeds and you who have these birds and have been breeding them for many years can be a little intimidating to those of us who haven't. Mr. Braden has been nothing but kind, overly generous and extrememly helpful to me. He really wants to see my efforts be successful. I am trying to do things the right way and I went to a person who has a very respected reputation to get my birds. They are only 12 weeks old and I'm sure they will change alot in the next year. I will forever be grateful to Mr. Braden for helping me get started. Walt once said worry about the color last, as far as I can see Mr. Braden has done all the work in getting their conformation intact, I don't mind working on their feathers. It will be a great learning experience for me. I think I will just go back to lurking, it is much easier to pick up all the good points of information when you don't feel like you have to be defensive. John Farmer your birds are really beautiful, my hope is to one day have a flock like that as my daily viewing pleasure. Thank you for sharing your picture. Have a blessed day everyone. Thank you again for your comments.
Nan

Well keep lurking on here for about 3 more months and show those on here again(things WILL be different then) I gaurontee ya then see what everbody has to say. I bet you they will have a change of heart, people forget these are Heritage type birds (slow to mature)and will prejudge them almost evertime they see them. They are not cherry-eggers or strawaberry-eggers/(Poduction Reds)
I saw a pic of the parent stock of them they will look like John farmers birds as they are indirectly related maybe even closer then most realize too(MAYBE not PERFECT SHOW QUALITY) but to the general novice's eye, just fine. Show quality birds now that's a whole "nuther" story and work of ART that not too many people can produce/reproduce.

Jeff

 

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[fowlman01]

This is a bad picture, but I took it to show the color of these in the sunlight. Most of the people I know think that the German New Hamps are too brown and I have a couple that are, but overall the females match the color of the US birds. These came indirectly from kathyinmo and started laying at 4.5 months old. I could have shown them at 5 months of age and will show them at the end of the month at approx 6 mo. The females mature faster than any other large fowl I have raised and I have raised most. I will be showing two females at the end of the month. The males are slow maturing, so they will be shown later. This picture was taken yesterday.



Walt

 

[DMRippy]

This is a bad picture, but I took it to show the color of these in the sunlight. Most of the people I know think that the German New Hamps are too brown and I have a couple that are, but overall the females match the color of the US birds. These came indirectly from kathyinmo and started laying at 4.5 months old. I could have shown them at 5 months of age and will show them at the end of the month at approx 6 mo. The females mature faster than any other large fowl I have raised and I have raised most. I will be showing two females at the end of the month. The males are slow maturing, so they will be shown later. This picture was taken yesterday.



Walt

Wow.... mine are almost 8 months old and NOTHING... not one egg from any of them

I think I just got DUDS all the way around..... I am thinking I need to just move one... luck is just not on my side with this breed. All my roos had split wing, most of the pullets do too, no eggs and they have dropped like flies too. I can't keep them alive. They have been a waste of money and time for me

 

[fowlman01]

Wow.... mine are almost 8 months old and NOTHING... not one egg from any of them

I think I just got DUDS all the way around..... I am thinking I need to just move one... luck is just not on my side with this breed. All my roos had split wing, most of the pullets do too, no eggs and they have dropped like flies too. I can't keep them alive. They have been a waste of money and time for me

I got these when they were about 3.5 months old and the only thing negative I have found is that some have feather stubs on the legs. The person I got them from got chicks from Kathy but had to get rid of some of here flock and so she offered them to me.....free. I am going to give her some runner ducks for them, but only because I like to keep things even. She had them on free range. I have them in a large flight pen with lots of room. They prefer to drink muddy water and I don't see any health problems. Our rainy winters will be the final test though, but I expect that they will remain healthy. There were no split wings in this group or in the group my friend kept.

Walt

 

[crazyhen]

I also got some from Kathy and they were very healthy. I got day olds.

Most were boys that had to find new homes but they are healthy too. I love her old NH better than I do the other ones I got from another breeder. Gloria Jean