I'm a bit concerned for the ladies here... Brahmas are a very large breed. I had 2 breeding roos and around 25 hens plus several mamas brooding eggs/chicks, also another 5 cockerels not quite ready to start crowing. My poor hens looked (and still look) like someone plucked their backs and the...
Well then the jury's gonna be out for a couple more weeks. 😂
As R2 said (and I learned this from him), rose-comb breeds can have trouble with fertility, so ever so often, hatcheries will mix in a single-comb bird. The single comb is recessive, therefore while it can pop up now and then, it's...
At this stage you can't know it's male or female unless you know how to vent sex. The hatcheries are pretty good at sexing them. Tractor Supply is famous for miss-sexing chicks (or mixing them up in the bins). Unless you got them there, I'd lean toward the sex being accurate. They do...