New Hampshire Red
A variety of the New Hampshire Red
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the New Hampshire Red
The sole recognised colour: a brilliant medium-to-light chestnut red, distinctly paler and more buff-toned than the deep mahogany of its Rhode Island Red ancestor, often with pale yellow highlights that bleach lighter in sunlight. The tail is black, with greenish-black sickles in cocks, and wing and lower-neck feathers are edged in black on hens. Admitted to the APA Standard in 1935 in this single colour, it carries the breed's fast-growing, quick-feathering dual-purpose build and a steady supply of brown eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 220
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus