My Brahmas matured really late - I think they started laying around 10-11 months old. However I have a Brahma currently raising her third spring brood, so she must be four years old. I fully expect her to start laying again once these chicks have matured. These heritage breeds are very different...
Sample space of one, but my (incubator-hatched) Brahma has been a wonderful broody! I put 12 under her. 8 hatched (the rest culled as infertile or fairly early quitters), 1 died at hatch, and I now have seven vigorous, healthy 2-month-olds running about. She has been attentive and protective...
I'm afraid we're suburban so no roos here :/
Purple-spotted? Huh! My Marans (I suspect - they're not shaped like the Wyandotte eggs) occasionally produce a mid brown egg with purplish spots, but this Brahma so far is giving me china-white eggs.
I don't even know what her colour is called! Around the web I've heard it called Isabella, pearl grey partridge, lavender somethingorother, porcelain? She was sold to me in the shell as a Buff Brahma, believe it or not! I love her to pieces.
A whole year to lay, that's amazing. I guess I'll...
Pretty birds, everyone!
My beauteous Isabella has finally started laying this week, at the ripe old age of nine and a half months! Lovely medium sized eggs, porcelain white and very smooth-shelled. The golden partridge Brahma is still holding out on me, but she must be on the edge of laying.