New Hampshire Red thread!!!!!!!!!

[Blackberry18]

I'm going to get a few New Hampshires this Saturday! Very excited! Anyone have any info or pros/cons on them? Personality-wise/egg laying? I'm buying from a poultry enthusiast friend and breeder who was recently accepted by the NPIP as a hatchery. Hope my birds are show quality!

 

[goldeneye girl]

hi I have a Hampshire Red her name is Tina she is a great 4-h show chicken I like the breed it is a easy breed to be held

 

[shortlid]

Good to heartheylike to be held. I have five NH reds two week old chicks to start our back yard flock.

 

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Here are my little guys, the red jolly ball is trying to keep the chicks out of their favorite hangout, the turkeys now use that as their favorite hangout. (No bourbon red thread?) ... ( heck no bourbon thread?, mmm love that stuff) I digress... Although our chessie is only more interested in the bird for stealing his jolly ball, but he's doing surprisingly good, he has yet to bring me one of our ducks, he mostly leaves them alone. We had one turkey looking a little sick, but I ended up giving it a little water and it perked right up so I put some 2x6's under the water container and it's doing better because the NHs are scratching less shavings into the water.

It's funny the chicks are sparing a little when I come around.

I'm thinking of trading a rooster too keep them from in breeding as next year I'll probably let them hatch some birds for meat and replace some of the hens. Do that with the turkeys and ducks as well, although the ducks won't stop quacking this morning.

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[MrsHatz]

My lovely NH Reds: The Colonel, Anastasia, Violet, Goldie and Thumbalina (with my silkie Elsa doing a close up).

Love my girls!!!

 

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A couple more of my NH I've had for 4 weeks

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[gward]

I have new chicks think they are Rhode Island reds but place I bought them couldn't tell me attaching pic can anyone help

 

[TeaChick]

First cricket chaos for The little ones

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I use spaghetti, but it's still chaos.

 

[TeaChick]

I'm going to get a few New Hampshires this Saturday! Very excited! Anyone have any info or pros/cons on them? Personality-wise/egg laying? I'm buying from a poultry enthusiast friend and breeder who was recently accepted by the NPIP as a hatchery. Hope my birds are show quality!

A lot of things depend on the strain (line). Most hatchery quality NHs are great layers, some breeder quality ones are good brooders, etc.
Mine took over from the former flock in short order and they lay great as long as the temp doesn't get too far past 90 for more than a few days, then they're useless. (They better lay all winter or they'll be stew and I'll start over w/ a different breed; I need chickens that will lay me an average of 5 eggs a week all year round from below freezing lows in the winter and above 100 highs in the summer).
Sorry for the rant.

I've only had mine since Aug. and Sept.
They all started laying in Mar. So they were six-seven months old. IDK if they would have hit POL earlier than that had I gotten ones that were hatched much earlier in the year. I have one left of my Feb order, and she hasn't started laying yet. We'll see if she starts laying next month or Sept. Either way, it will be this year.

In re: show quality
From any 25-ish chickens, you're only going to have about 2-5 that are exactly what you're looking for (whatever combination of traits that is).

hi I have a Hampshire Red her name is Tina she is a great 4-h show chicken I like the breed it is a easy breed to be held

Congrats!
Out of 15 NHs, only three will walk up and want to be held. To catch the others, I have to wait until they're in the coop and catch them in a corner.

Here are my little guys, the red jolly ball is trying to keep the chicks out of their favorite hangout, the turkeys now use that as their favorite hangout. (No bourbon red thread?) ... ( heck no bourbon thread?, mmm love that stuff) I digress... Although our chessie is only more interested in the bird for stealing his jolly ball, but he's doing surprisingly good, he has yet to bring me one of our ducks, he mostly leaves them alone. We had one turkey looking a little sick, but I ended up giving it a little water and it perked right up so I put some 2x6's under the water container and it's doing better because the NHs are scratching less shavings into the water.

It's funny the chicks are sparing a little when I come around.

I'm thinking of trading a rooster too keep them from in breeding as next year I'll probably let them hatch some birds for meat and replace some of the hens. Do that with the turkeys and ducks as well, although the ducks won't stop quacking this morning.

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Start a Bourbon Red thread. =)

From what I understand about chicken breeding (which is very little, really), breeding brother to sister is the only place you really run into trouble; father to daughter and mother to son are okay.

I have new chicks think they are Rhode Island reds but place I bought them couldn't tell me attaching pic can anyone help

If you can get a pic of it not in mid-peck, that would be easier, but it looks too dark to be a NH, IMO.

 

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Got my first egg today. 16 weeks on the dot, it was outside the coop and didn't have a shell. I picked it up and it cracked so the dogs got it. I tried taking some video today but my camcord battery is dead and my phone is only producing corrupt images and videos and I couldn't do a quick format so its scrubbing through 60 gigabytes right now.