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as soon as i seperated the brahmas they stopped laying so i only have 4 eggs (1 days laying) that are definitely brahma but i have 3 hens sitting now, a maran a pekin and a La Bresse cross that the maran raised last year. Who knows what ill get when all 3 nests have chicks, ill just have to wait...

i have not read ALL of this thread, i will read it while waiting for a responce to my querie..... my laying nests are made from strong heavy guage wire mesh, its like a metal grid with about 2 inch squares... like a chess board but the squares are empty if u know what i mean, they were never...

they do it in hatcheries to prevent feather plucking and pecking, it cuts down on injuries but that particular pic looks very severe, don't usually cut off so much and the beak still seems to have a point, usually its a straight cut

what does it mean when you've got "ovation" on this site?

i was given a broody today so when i got her home i grabbed 4 eggs from the nest for her to sit on. i really only want to breed brahmas though so this evening i put my 4 brahmas into a coop by themselves so that i know the eggs ill have are defo brahma. thing is i still havent finished my runs...

ya, id definitely go with darks or as theyre called over here "silver"

hi. its impossible to tell just by looking at the top of their heads. can u post better pics? what colour were u told they were when u bought them?

heres my newest acquisitions a pair of Light Brahmas that are about 10 weeks old as you can see the hen is so far all white, im hoping she will stay that way and that she produces a white son so that i can start a white Brahma line... how cool would pure white brahmas be

hows that for a barred brahma

any help that experienced breeders can give me is appreciated The hen on the right is the one im going to pair with my cockoo x brahma cross rooster. See how badly marked and washed out she is, Im hoping thatll mean the roosters colour will carry over into the chicks

@nicalandia sorry but im new to the whole gene experimenting thing so i havent a clue what " heterozygous for the sex linked barring gene" means or "eterozygous barring" either

very nice, nice young birds too, combs still developing... ummm... think ill get eggs from u instead lol heres a pic or two of my cuckoo brahma roo hes as big as my gander (thats him in the middle of the pic with the grey on his back) got two black brahma hens and two...

im on a nokia n8 smartfone and cant figure out how to post a pic

oooooooooooohhhh i gotta have some eggs with his genes, what colour brahma hen are you pairing him with??

thanx for the advice nic, however, i thought u werent supposed to mate siblings, i was told go no closer than father to daughter and mother to son but never brother to sister. can u explain why the sibling mating please {ill never learn if i dont ask}

im gonna try to make cuckoo brahmas, so id really appreciate advice from experienced breeders how i should go about it. i know colour comes from the cock and body type from the mother but thats about it..... i already have a maran x brahma cross cock, brahma body and maran colour and i want to...

some of my chickens have a bit of a sniffle, one sneezes and a grower has an eye that closes every so often, cleaning it with sterile wipes help in the short term but doesnt get rid of it. my geese have sore and swollen eyes and one had bubbled covering one eye and is using her wings to help her...

ill get some pics up tomorrow

one of my two geese has had a very thin bald line (only maybe 2mm around her eyes, one of the geese has grey patches and the tip of her wing sticks out at 90 degrees to her body so i thought this pink line was just a colouration thing,but its been getting a little worse so i thought it might be...