New Hampshire Breed Thread

[silkiechick236]

I got 10 NHs from Ideal in Oct and love them to pieces!!!

 

[usschicago1]

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Nice! Have any Pictures?!

 

[silkiechick236]

No, but I'll try to get some this weekend. They are so pretty! We've a big storm that's suppose to be coming in, maybe I can get some snow pics.

 

[usschicago1]

Thats be so cool

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[Barred Rocker]

I only have one but I love her to death. She has the best personality and lays huge eggs. I'd love to get some more just like her.

 

[Nizzletripe]

This is Miracle my 8 month old baby. Isn't he handsome? Miracle was an egg in distress that I hatched back on Memorial Weekend. I'm a teacher and each year I hatch eggs in the class. Last year my incubator went haywire and the temperature rose above 103 degrees. After 25 days no eggs hatched. On the 26 or so I noticed one of the twelve eggs was beginning to pip. After a whole day, into the next morning, the little guy still had not hatched. I helped it along, slowly, carefully and after 4 hours, my little Miracle came out. He was scrawny, had a crooked neck and I thought the chick would not survive. He didn't drink or it. I coaxed him and fed him water with a syringe and little bits of mashed feed and egg yolk. That was then. Now he's a robust healthy rooster. I never brought him back to school. I'm now the proud owner of one New Hamshire Red Rooster and 5 five month old Diominique hens.

 

[silkiechick236]

Nizzletripe - What an awesome story! He is one handsome roo!

Here's some pics of my girls, not so great, it's overcast here and of course they won't hold still.

 

[americana-chick]

I have a pair of new hampshire reds actually. At my feed store you can buy them and they are a very nice looking and a very good egg layer! I will post pics later.

 

[usschicago1]

Nizzletrip, that was a beautiful story, that what makes this hobby worthwhile, is story's like that. And the fact its a new hampshire, makes it so much better

Nice Birds Silkiechick, how old are they?


Cant wait to see your birds america chick

 

[silkiechick236]

Thanks! They are about 3 months old, got them mid-Oct. The pics don't do them justice.