So glad that you are enjoying them, hope to get more of them out there, APA will not recognize a color pattern until many breeders have experience with them.
I have not been in good health, i am struggling to keep everyone warm and happy, so far so good, i think i have a nice group of girls to breed with this year.
The birds look great, I have been checking in and enjoying seeing them all... My luck and my health have not been good, i am hoping for better luck and health in the new year. Best of luck to you . happy holidays.
Hi Cynthia, sorry that I haven't been able to take the time to have a real dialog, but things are rough for me rt. now...I am very glad that there are no vulture hocks. I cull those birds the min I see one, fortunately I have not had any at all in several generations. The birds are looking...
re USPS employees, i agree that you can get diffrent answers from diffrent employees. I believe i had looked this very issue up in postal regs, and i think that I read that shipped eggs are not covered by insurance even if you manage to get a postal agent to sell you the insurance. T.
Hello, I am glad that the thread that I created has helped so many people, i saw a need and i filled that need with the thread. Regarding the marking issue that you raised, I have never in the many years of purchasing and selling encountered a seller before that flatly refused to mark the box as...
...were making the chouce between which boy chick to keep, i would keep the blue partridge as my blues are better conformation, larger and i think so **** handsome. Glad you are enjoying raising them up, i am sure you will love them. BTW I would rely on Sjisty's call on sexes, she has dealt with...
do you keep water constantly available, i have seen that water ejection after picking up a bird that had been watered after being very thirsty and they filled their crop to capacity. In my estimation not a problem. As far as the being light on weight, i wouldn't venture to stipulate as to the...
Im with you, the characteristics of the pure standard large fowl brahma are what most of us breed for. The only departure is that many of us want to eventually see more color and pattern options beyond the standard Light Brahma, Dark Brahma and Buff Brahmas that are the only colors and paterns...
i totally agree with Big Medecine's recommendation to not use brahmas as broodies, for all the reasons he mentioned and more. your fear of stinking eggs is without foundation. Except for a bad egg which in hatching thousands of eggs i have never had, you have very little chance of anything going...
see the feathers extending rearward at the elbow of the leg, those are vulture hocks. i hope this is a help, and i hope that your birds do not have them. the standards in europe allows for vulture hocks. often when advertising chicks or hatching eggs the seller will identify as being european...
re, breeding from hatchery stock.......out of desperation searching for large fowl dark brahmas i ordered 25 dark brahma chicks from mcmurray hatchery,{ this was several years ago}, all arrived healthy but after 3 weeks they all went to auction because every one was showing the heavy quilled...