Heritage New Hampshires

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From the ALBC website. Their data gathering methods seem more exhaustive than I had been led to believe.

How does ALBC determine the status or conservation category for each poultry breed? Poultry censusing is different than censusing for mammalian livestock. Poultry censusing requires a much more extensive approach to get a comprehensive picture. With poultry, ALBC contacts hatcheries, known major breeders, and ALBC members. ALBC also sends out surveys through the American Poultry Association, breed clubs, and the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities. ALBC advertises its poultry census in magazines and makes the survey available on the ALBC website for anyone and everyone. We try to reach as many people as possible. We also gather information from individuals.​
 
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Yeah, I agree last year there was a thread about New hampshires and I patiently waited for some time to see great pics of them, there were a few but mostly what people posted were hatchery(Production) reds and from the best I could tell RSL's (not the GSL's with white tails) as some red sex links do resemble NH but with poorer color and also much smaller bodies.

Anyway kathinmo beautiful NHs you purchased there and youv'e rekindled my intrest in the breed as I see there is actually some real versions still out there. I raised NHs back in the early eighties they were pretty good stock then. I took about 20 year hiatus from faming and now that I'm done (sowing wild oats)
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I finally settled back down to earth and started back farming and looking for good birds to project with, got a start on Delawares sorta but thats gonna be a long haul from what I've gathered so far, anyway might get into a second breeder program and it will prolly be NHs especialy since I see how rare they are now.

Anyway maybe there will be some great pics arriving soon and maybe some more reading material on a great heritage breed, you know NHs were the leading bird in the broiler industry one upon a time.

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Dang, Kathy, you better start setting some eggs!!! You can send me a dozen chicks in March, along with our project babies....
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Kathy those are gorgeous!! Glad to see there are some real NHs still around BIG fan of them. Just need to get my act together so I can track down your breeder and get my hands on some also. Those are something else!!!
 
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Well, I am still waiting .......
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I know it, mee too. I went searching on google last night didn't get much there either 'cept the same ol' same ol' every other site just repeating the same info over and over.

Sure wish somebody would come on here and relay some info on this wonderful breed of chicken. I did my term paper my senior year on chickens some umpteen(25) years ago. I got most of my info from the library and ag class in the little po-dunk high school (est. in the 30's) I graduated from. My Grandfather was the librarian for some 20-something years there he also was a chicken entusiast so he had lots of good chicken books, the old ones where they tell you things that you can't find now-a-days. He is where I got my start in chickens and some great info that is nowhere recorded in anything but my VERY vague memory, every once in awhile something pops up in the ol' memory bank, but it has to go through quite a few layers of pickled brain cells from my wild oat sowing years. I'm gonna dig through my stuff and see if I can find my rough draft and try to see if maybe my english/lit teacher might still have the term paper stashed away somewhere. I personaly know the current librairian, I'm gonna check with her and see if the old books are still around and my cousin is the ag teacher, so I'll check with him and see if the old books are still around, it's prolly a long shot though, I don't think they even use the books anymore. These old books are like in the 20's ---60's I'm talking when a lot of chicken breeds were new, and the info is not tainted by hand me downs, wives-tales or good ol' Joe's rendition of how so and so came about, know what I mean. Ever heard of a White Australorp well they had 'em and if I get these books or at least the names and info on them I'll sure post them here on the BYC.

Sorry to be so long and seem off topic but it's really not, because some of these books were printed back when the NH and others (Dels, Australorps, etc...) were actually being developed and not cross-bred or(out-bred)to darn near extinction, so on and so forth. Let me do some digging around I'll get back to ya'll with some good old timey info,
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hopefully.

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