Backyard Brahmas!!

[big medicine]

Big med... i want splash silver columbian hatching eggs

Yeah, that ship has sailed. I no longer have any silver Columbian (light) Brahmas, in any formulation, on the place. I at one time thought the blue lights would look cool, but once I had some on the ground, they seemed to lack enough contrast, I liked the regular (black) lights better, popped more, really catch my eye.

I thought the blue might look better against a gold base color, so tried that. Liked it better, and went that way for a while, breeding for a deeper red ground color.

 

[bumpercarr]

Yes, I'm looking for the best personality. I have one that will just grab the back of a pullet's head and hold her. I'm thinking its a submission hold, however not sure. She will squawk and he will let go after a few seconds. He never tries to get on them and he never pulls any feathers out. Is this normal or is he being aggressive? The other males don't do it (yet),

It's probably normal, I would guess that he is the alpha male in the group which is why the others aren't doing it yet. As they get older, they will try to sneak in a snuggle when he's not looking.

 

[livininbrazil]

Physically, splash only pertains to the parts of a bird that would be black with out the presence of blue, or in this case two copies of blue actually. So the "white" birds in this photo, being silver columbian, are mostly white genetically to begin with. Only the neck, tail, and wings are affected by having two copies of blue. If you look really close, you can see a dark spec in a tail feather of the pullet looking away.


Just as there are varying degrees of gold, affected by multiple color enhancers, or restrictors, the cleanness of the "white" in the splash portion of a bird can vary pretty widely between individuals.

Looking at the photos you posted, I would speculate that they are genetically a solid, or mostly solid, black bird with two copies of blue. Now in a case like that you can get away with calling such a bird a splash, (or blue, or black), as there is no pattern, (being unicolor) at play. Now that I look closer at the shots, there are some red shoulders bleeding through on at least one of the cockerels in the pen with the Cochin looking cock.

Thank you. It´s getting clearer.

 

[ChickAdee317]

my babies

 

[bamadude]

my babies

are those brahmas? Where are the foot feathers

 

[cabinchicky]

Here is the best pic I can get of my girls. they like to huddle with my Cochins and Lurch.

 

[ChickAdee317]

baby

about 2 months ago

they were wet ......maybe sticking to their legs?

 

[ChickAdee317]

Maybe they picked them off do they do that?

 

[bamadude]

Idk. They are good looking to me tho.

 

[ChickAdee317]

They are just wet I think