new hempshire chickens

[sóley]

are new hempshire chickens friendly and calm? and how big are there eggs? are the eggs similar to the Rhode Island red eggs in size and color maybe?

I have also heard they sometimes get broody, are they like crazy brooders like the pekin bantam that's always broody, or just occasionally ?

 

[Pretty Birds]

are new hempshire chickens friendly and calm? and how big are there eggs? are the eggs similar to the Rhode Island red eggs in size and color maybe?

My New Hampshire Reds are friendly. They don't really like to held, but are curious and friendly. Their eggs are large in size and are a typical brown egg.

 

[chickenlittle21]

I don't have any experience with them but I know that they are not crazy broody.

 

[sóley]

My New Hampshire Reds are friendly. They don't really like to held, but are curious and friendly. Their eggs are large in size and are a typical brown egg.

okey have you ever had anyone with aggressiveness (aggressive to other hens) or are they aggressive free?
just wondering because I had lohmanns that got aggressive, killed for of my other hens, so I had to stop owning lohmans, and now I just have 2 brown egg layers left and miss not having as many brown eggs as I used to.

I think the new hempshire are so beautiful in pictures I have seen of them, so I'm really hoping there friendly to other hens to

 

[Pretty Birds]

okey have you ever had anyone with aggressiveness (aggressive to other hens) or are they aggressive free?

I have never had any problems with aggressiveness. They get along with everyone else in the my mixed flock.

 

[sóley]

I have never had any problems with aggressiveness. They get along with everyone else in the my mixed flock.

okey that's great to hear, I know of one breeder of them her in Iceland and will contact him later this year, about getting fertile eggs, thank you for answering my questions

 

[Pretty Birds]

thank you for answering my questions

Your welcome. Glad I could help.

 

[50-45-1]

the New Hampshire birds i have had in the past were friendly and good layers.
Much fewer problems than with any Rhode Island Reds i have had.
Im sure they might go broody depending on the bird, but mine never did.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

are new hempshire chickens friendly and calm? and how big are there eggs? are the eggs similar to the Rhode Island red eggs in size and color maybe?

I have also heard they sometimes get broody, are they like crazy brooders like the pekin bantam that's always broody, or just occasionally ?

okey have you ever had anyone with aggressiveness (aggressive to other hens) or are they aggressive free?

The New Hampshire's I have and have had are decent layers, large brown eggs.
Aggressive it not a word I would use, but they stand their ground. Mine are cliquish and are not the most welcoming to newbies. Human friendly and curious, but don't like to be held much.

You see...it's like this. Read all the posts above. Everyone has different experiences, ideas and even different definitions of certain words. Highly likely MY definition/idea of "aggressive" is much much different than yours.
I'm still learning, but none of the breeds I have had would I define as "aggressive free".

 

[sóley]

The New Hampshire's I have and have had are decent layers, large brown eggs.
Aggressive it not a word I would use, but they stand their ground. Mine are cliquish and are not the most welcoming to newbies. Human friendly and curious, but don't like to be held much.

You see...it's like this. Read all the posts above. Everyone has different experiences, ideas and even different definitions of certain words. Highly likely MY definition/idea of "aggressive" is much much different than yours.
I'm still learning, but none of the breeds I have had would I define as "aggressive free".

thanks, what I call aggressive chicken is when a chicken kills another chicken or injures it badly, like my lohmann hens just gang up on these 4 hens. they grew up with 3 of them so this was not some hen I just added to the flock, these hens had been living with them since they hatched out. one was older tho, (she was 2 year old brahma, but she had been living with them since the where young chicks tho, and no problem until just one day they decided to attack these 4 hens) the others where hens that grew up with them and hatched out the same day, one of them where 1 year old Rhode Island red, 2 of them where 1 year old cuckoo Maran.
I know hens sometimes bully other hens that are newbies to the flock, but in this case, these hens where not newbies. to me chickens that bully newbies are not aggressive, just showing them who's boss. but when hens kill or injure a another hen, that is something I call aggressive.
sorry if my English is bad, I'm from Iceland, and not the best in English, haha, but hope you understand what I mean. thanks for your answer, I think I will try this breed out and see how I like them, hopefully they will be able to live in the same coop as my 2 Rhode Island red hens I got left and my 2 light Sussex