7-8 Week Brahmas

[Kholts]

Anyone know how normal it is to have blue & green sheen on hens?

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

Anyone know how normal it is to have blue & green sheen on hens?

Entirely normal. Here is my Black Brahma hen Chili showing off her sheen. (I just want to add that she does have the wrong earlobe color, just so she isn't seen as an example of what they necessarily should look like )

 

[Kholts]

Entirely normal. Here is my Black Brahma hen Chili showing off her sheen. (I just want to add that she does have the wrong earlobe color, just so she isn't seen as an example of what they necessarily should look like )
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Phew ok because 2 of the 7 week ones have a blue/ green sheen starting. Still not seeing a rooster looking tail & combs are still in that “is it or isn’t it” stage.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Anyone know how normal it is to have blue & green sheen on hens?

Yep, I agree... All black feathers, on all birds will sheen. Its not a gender specific thing.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I love the splash ones! Where did you get them?

 

[Kholts]

I love the splash ones! Where did you get them?

Splash ones? My blue looking Roos?

All the Brahma chicks I got were from a lady working on coloured Brahmas. Blue, black & blue partridges I think.

They are beautiful birds even if all turn out to be cockerels which I can’t keep lol.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Splash ones? My blue looking Roos?

All the Brahma chicks I got were from a lady working on coloured Brahmas. Blue, black & blue partridges I think.

They are beautiful birds even if all turn out to be cockerels which I can’t keep lol.

Ya the blue, my bad, they are gorgeous!

 

[Kholts]

Ya the blue, my bad, they are gorgeous!

Haha that’s ok. They do look splashy with the lighter & darker feathers. I get it.

 

[Kholts]

Update: sold my suspected Cockerels. Have 2 left that I kept as I'm unsure still.

 

[Kholts]

Well was woke up At 4:45am this morning to a botched crowing sound....

Thought I got all the cockerels but it seems I missed 1 or perhaps 2. Which means all my Brahmas were boys.

Went & looked at them & I think I’m seeing saddle feathers coming in on both now.