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Is there any way you could use cloth tape & cardboard to splint the toes/legs back to their correct position? You might be able to correct it this way.

I'm so happy to find a breeding home for them. I wish I had space and time and money to work with so many different breeds.

Bredas are so sweet. It's wonderful that you are interested in making more of them. Average LF chicken sized accommodations will do. The thing to think about w these cuties is that due to their bell bottoms and vulture hocks, they are not the most graceful of chickens. Keep this in mind when...

Which part of the country r u located in? I hatched a couple this spring which I'm looking for good breda homes for. I'm in NY & would rather not ship them far if at all. One hatched in April is blue & I'm pretty sure she's a pullet. A splash hatched 4 weeks ago, can't tell the sex of that...

Anyone in the NY area working w Bredas? Im in central NY and have a pair of blues that I would like to sell, but I'd rather not ship them. They were hatched June 2014 and are a handsome couple. Pm me if interested.

That's a great article. Thank you for posting it. It is interesting to read the methods he used with line breeding. The reference to breeding Cochins to Bredas is from feathersite, http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Breda/BRKBreda.html. Looking closer at the article, Cochin crossing...

Thank you GaryDean for your wise words. Seems outbreeding can be a long slippery slope. My concern w the bredas is that even sourcing stock from other Breda flocks w/in the states may still not be that deep of a gene pool. The handful of beautiful young birds I have show no signs of lack of...

Reading the limited info out there on bredas, I found something about how the Dutch bred them to Cochins. What is the consensus on outbreeding bredas to a line of Cochins? If all American bredas are related to a handful imported by green fire, the gene pool must be shallow. Breeding in some...

So a couple days after setting Breda eggs I unexpectedly happened upon some Cochin eggs. So they hatched out a couple days apart and are in the brooder together now. I thought it was interesting to see how their foot feathers are developing differently. The Breda is the darker, black bird & the...

Sylvester, you so need some breda chicks. Hope you get some soon! :)

Pictured is a black and a blue I think. I don't think any that I hatched are splash. Love the blue color tho & I think I ended up with 4 of them. The chicks are so calm and gentle. They already try to stand straight up so they wobble & trip over each other. It kills me how cute they are.

Hatching 101, Diary & Notes, and incubators anonymous are all great threads on incubation. I used info from them to hatch my first bredas (yesterday): They are from shipped eggs that I let sit for 24 hours before placing them in the bator. Good luck!!