And here is what they will look like in 2-3 months.
The splash translates to "salt and pepper" is some languages. It is mostly white with a some flecks of blue/black here and there. The blue is my favorite color in chickens. Good quality blues have a baby blue ground color with thick black lacing on each feather. Like seen below. Black are well black. Good quality should have a green sheen to it. Poor quality could have a purple or red sheen to it, but it black all the same.
I'm new on this thread, but I have a question for experienced Breda breeders. I have a black pullet, a blue pullet, and a blue cockerel (almost a year old). I was hatching some Campine eggs, and I had extra room in the incubator for eggs. Since the Breda eggs were showing fertile (bullseye on yolk), I stuck 5 of them in the incubator They all hatched healthy babies. 3 blues and one black. And one yellow one.
He/she has feathered feet and the bump on her beak. Is this a standard Breda color, or is she a cross. The other possibilites are a young true Aracauna cockerel (who doesn't have the breeding thing going yet -- he keeps falling off) or a very large English Orpington Jubilee cockerel. I doubt it was the Orp because the two groups don't usually cross over. I know the parent stock is pure. I know the chicks hatched from eggs from both of the Breda pullets because their eggs are slightly different.
That is actually an Andalusian Hen. Here is the Andalusian Rooster.
That is actually an Andalusian Hen. Here is the Andalusian Rooster.
They are very similar in color to the Blue Breda, but they could never be confused because they lack the feathered legs, lack vulture hocks, lack the cavernous nostril, lack the tassel cresting and of course have a comb. Below is the Breda Cockbird that I was breeding before I went to a single breed flock.
Yes she is. I have been handling her often and she is so sweet. Thank you!
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Bredas definitely are sweet birds! We got a juvenile cockerel and a juvenile pullet from two different breed sources and both came to us outgoing, friendly, curious, and unafraid at about 4-months-old and I know the breeders did not handle them that much before we received them. The birds seem to naturally be sweet unafraid birds. We re-homed the cockerel with a friend because we aren't zoned for roos and they treat him like a family pet with his own dog bed and all. Our pullet was such a naturally outgoing friendly pullet she was already following us around the house the day she arrived, tapping on our shoes and toes, jumping up on the bench next to us or next to our visitors to their amusement, or flying to our shoulder. Never had such a friendly pullet right at the start that wasn't used to us yet. She's over a year old now and still just as outgoing funny and friendly as ever. What's nice is that she is a non-combative flockmate with our gentle Silkies and Ameraucana. As a non-aggressive LF she is a dream to us and lays her eggs with a lot less fuss and noisy egg songs than some other breeds we've had in the past. It's so funny that a breed with such a piercing Eagle look can be so incredibly gentle and pesty-friendly! We think her fluffy ear feathers are adorable when she looks straight on or viewing her from the top of her beautiful head.
I've read and talked with breeders who have had issues with raising Breda chicks but once they get past the chick and juvenile stages they're a hardy bird. When we received our shipped juveniles they had little sneezes but when it got frequent and louder we decided to take them to the vet for Baytril -- I guess those cavernous nostrils of theirs make them prone to respiratory issues but nothing serious if you know how to recognize it and whether it needs treatment. Most breeders just let the sniffles run its course but I paid a lot of money for our Bredas with shipping costs and didn't want to take the chance of losing them when their sneezing got harder. Other breeders said they had issues with Bumblefoot on their Bredas attributed to the wet climate and said they thought Bredas did better in non-soggy climates. In our dry sunny SoCalif area soggy climate is not an issue. Our pullet has one funny feather that sticks up at the top of her triangle crest of little feathers and my DH asked her, "Is that your personality showing?" from the Alfalfa character on Spanky and Our Gang from the 1930's films.
