Backyard Brahmas!!

[suyoder]

@big medicine i love your birds!! Do you raise Bantam Brahmas too? I KNOW what most pple think about hatchery stock, but are there any hatcheries that you recommend? Or maybe a better word would be "tolerate".

 

[Katt66]

They are just wet I think

Probably just wet in the first pics you posted. My two can look pretty thinly feathered When their foot fluff is wet. None of my guys pick at each others or their own feathers. My Brahma pullet has lost most of her baby leg feathers now though and has new blood feathers all up and down both legs growing in. We try to be very gentle with her right now so as not to break any of them off till they come in fully.

 

[ChickAdee317]

Blood feathers?

 

[big medicine]

@big medicine i love your birds!! Do you raise Bantam Brahmas too? I KNOW what most pple think about hatchery stock, but are there any hatcheries that you recommend? Or maybe a better word would be "tolerate".

15 - 20 years ago I had some pretty decent light Brahma bantams. I figured I could help the economy more by pumping a whole lot more money into the system feeding and housing large fowl.

As far as hatchery Brahmas go, probably six of one, half a dozen of the other. Although every so often somebody will post some that seem to be extraordinarily bad, for the most part they seem about the same.

 

[Katt66]

Blood feathers?

The new growth. When feathers first start to grow in they are blood filled quills that will eventually grow into full feathers with a solid shift down the middle. Until they grow out though they are pretty painful to the bird when you handle them and will bleed like crazy if you break one off or cut it accidentally.
The main reason most moulting birds of any species tend to be so crabby I think.

 

[ChickAdee317]

Oh

 

[holm25]

I'll get more pics of our brahma's later there growing fast

 

[bumpercarr]

15 - 20 years ago I had some pretty decent light Brahma bantams. I figured I could help the economy more by pumping a whole lot more money into the system feeding and housing large fowl.

That is certainly why I raise LF, need to keep the local feed store in business!

 

[Sjisty]

... and why we just bought two Great Dane puppies - $89 at the feed store yesterday!

 

[Pennychickens]

We have two mastiffs buy 100.00 dollars of feed just for them a month plus all the chicken food.