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

[sssharon]

Why not just stew those tough birds. My friend gave me 27 roosters and I took them in to be butchered and then I just stewed them whenever I wanted to. I pulled the meat off the bones and made different things with it. Chicken and noodles, quesadillas, casseroles with chicken. The meat was never tough.

 

[sssharon]

I actually didn't know you had to join, but sure you may. I have 4 New Hampshire pullets. They are 5 months old and 1 week this Sunday. I had a little brown egg in the nest yesterday and I think it was one of them that laid it. Anyway welcome!

 

[TeaChick]

I actually didn't know you had to join, but sure you may. I have 4 New Hampshire pullets. They are 5 months old and 1 week this Sunday. I had a little brown egg in the nest yesterday and I think it was one of them that laid it. Anyway welcome!

Okay.
Good for you (& her); first egg!
Thank you.

I have 12 pullets and 4 cockerels. They hatched out on Monday and I got them on Tuesday. The chickens I already have are golden Comets and barn yard mutts; I'm super excited to start a purebred flock!
Is there anything I should know about this breed?

 

[sssharon]

Well, they are a beautiful bird especially when they mature. They're not real noisy. They get pretty big also. Mine are only 5 months like I say and they are good size. I wish I could figure out how to put pics on here. I'm working on it and maybe someday I'll be able to post some great ones. I have several different varieties and am having a good time with them. I weeded out 3 brown Leghorn that I had and would not recommend them. They are great egg layers but that's about the only thing I liked about them. New Hampshires are a real nice bird and have read that they are good layers too. Good luck with your birds! Keep me up on things.

 

[TeaChick]

Well, they are a beautiful bird especially when they mature. They're not real noisy. They get pretty big also. Mine are only 5 months like I say and they are good size. I wish I could figure out how to put pics on here. I'm working on it and maybe someday I'll be able to post some great ones. I have several different varieties and am having a good time with them. I weeded out 3 brown Leghorn that I had and would not recommend them. They are great egg layers but that's about the only thing I liked about them. New Hampshires are a real nice bird and have read that they are good layers too. Good luck with your birds! Keep me up on things.

Thanks for the info!!!
I have found they're not noisy, at least at one week old. Most of the time you can't even tell we have chicks on the back porch; all the other chicks we've had have been noisy and the Cochins were real loud-mouths!
I got 5 white Leghorns in my original flock. I agree they're great layers, but that's about it.
What different varieties do you have?

About posting pictures, if you look at the bar where you can change the font, you'll see a picture of a landscape, then a film, then the smileys, then a quote. That first icon, the one that looks like a landscape picture is the one you click on. Then click on the option that says "Upload Files", then you'll see your picture folder on your computer come up, after that you can double click on one picture or you can control+click on several pictures and then click "Open". Then you have the option to choose the size. I chose small for the pictures below; Medium is the default size.
This is one of my loud-mouthed Cochin chicks. (We thought he was a pullet, so we named him Lavender, he's the only one we still have of the four; looking for hens for him.)

This is Snoodle, my Cochin Bantam Frizzle. I lost her to some unknown illness. This is her in the rain; all my chickens like pecking around in the rain.

I really should have chosen pictures instead of clicking at random. Sorry about that.

I hope this doesn't count as off topic; I don't have pictures of my Reds in my computer yet.

Also, are your girls laying? I'm trying to figure out when I can expect mine to start laying.

 

[sssharon]

I have 4 New Hampshire pullets 5 months and 1 week old and am hoping they well be laying soon. I've heard different stories about when they lay. They should be ready though. I have 1 buff and 1 black Orpington. They are around laying age too. Although I read that Orpingtons can lay as late as 8 months. I have 2 Rhode Island mixed, 1 Welsummer 1 gold laced Sebright. and a Barred ;Rock and an Americana. That's it, no more. hahaha. Not that I wouldn't like to have more. Thanks for the info about the pictures. I'm going to try it out and get some pictures on. I wouldn't worry about being off topic. This is supposed to be for fun I think. As long as you're not cussing about chickens you should be fine. Just making a joke. I have one chicken laying and that is my Barred Rock. Little brown eggs and she is huge. It's funny. That's the way they start out and then get good size. I've watched my daughters chickens eggs change. Guess I'll try my luck with the pics right now. ttyl

 

[TeaChick]

My lead rooster is GLW X WL. I have 4 golden Comets, 1 white Leghorn, 3 pullets from my Leghorn eggs (I've lost two this year and two last year, they're not my favorite choice for free ranging). All five hens and one of the pullets are laying; if the other two don't start laying fairly soon, I'm going to have to end their days of free loading.
My jr rooster is (I think) NH x BO.
I also have what my DH calls my mascot flock: Cochin bantams, one black roo and two girls (black & barred).
I have a bachelor LF Cochin cockerel, gotta get him some hens and build them a tractor. And a bachelor BO, he's only 2.5 mos old.

 

[sssharon]

Leghorns are supposedly great lovers of free ranging. Mine loved to get out and forage. One of them would follow me when I was out digging up plants or whatever. That was the only amusing thing they did. They would get real close and watch what I was doing and the minute I stepped out of the way they were right there getting bugs. There was one specific one that did that and I got a kick out of that. Unfortunately the cons outweighed the pros. My BR has been laying me eggs daily, Each day for the last 4 days. She's my favorite. She sees me coming and starts squaking up a storm. It's real cute. She follows me around like a dog. I made a page last night and put my 3 chicks I raised out of the incubator but don't know how to retrieve the page now. I must be computer challenged. Maybe you will see it floating around.

 

[TeaChick]

My leghorns (white) were not the most intelligent chickens I've ever met. I only have one left. I lost two of them b/c they thought they could sleep in the woods (white isn't a good camo color), and I lost one to predation from inside the coop (Ugh!), and I lost one to my own stupidity (she had a bumble foot and I put her in a wire dog crate, but couldn't get to her right away, one of the kids put the crate in the sun so that she would have grass under her feet and the heat killed her). Anyway, the one I have left (Cottontail) is the most skittish and careful and wary thing I've ever seen. Lots of eggs though. My sex links keep up with her pretty well though (and they can sleep in the woods if they get mad at me and still come back in the morning, as long as it's not winter, too many predators then).
I'm really happy for you about your BR's eggs!!! It's so exciting when they start laying. I free range, so I didn't know when my first flock started laying last year. Now I've got them laying in a 5-gal bucket on the back porch, in a Tyson's chicken wings box behind the shed, and Cottontail decided yesterday to start laying in the Bantam pen.

Cottontail needs to give me a break. lol
I lost my favorite hen (my CBF) Snoodle. I don't even know why she was sick. My current favorite is a BO cockerel, he's about 10 weeks old. He (apparently) got into fire ants, both his legs swelled up, they're better now, but he lost half his toes on one foot and walks with a hobble now; I was going to butcher him, but I can't now. DH said something about it today; I told him he'd have to do it. I've done the others, so I told him he needed the practice.
Don't worry about being computer challenged. I am too, really, but we all help each other here on BYC. =)
So, are you posting from a computer or a phone/tablet? It will help me a lot to know what you're looking at.
Also, I'll try to find the page you're talking about and post you the link for it, then you can copy it and paste it anywhere you want to. =)

 

[sssharon]

I am on a Netbook. Same as a computer but smaller and actually it would be a mini laptop. I need to post some pictures of my reds. They are really pretty. My chickens could free range too if they would quit eating my tomatoes. They don't have a chance to get red. I decided to just let them out under supervision but get tired of babysitting. I sure miss my Highstepper. I don't know if you got my message but he turned out to be a cockerel instead of a pullet so he went to my daughters. At least I know my grandkids will take good care of him. Can you give me that link that you gave me again so I can copy it. I should have done it when I had it. Sorry to be a pest. I'll try to get some more pics on.