Backyard Brahmas!!

[bumpercarr]

I'm not a seller. I just love to keep them and breed them. Yup, he doesn't have much feathers on his toes. Lemme post a picture of one of it's chick. That chick is now 6.5 months old and it's a Male. Have a look at him. And lemme know how's it.

Comb is definitely not a pea comb (what brahmas are supposed to have). Usually my young cockerels have a definite 3 rows of peas, changes as they get older.

 

[Katt66]

He's got more of a rose comb.

 

[WendyF]

What are vulture hocks?

 

[scratch'n'peck]

What are vulture hocks?

Do you mean Turkey Vultures a kind of raptor bird? If so here is a link: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/turkey_vulture/ID

Or is is a hock like part of the anatomy rather than hawk? Then I don't know.

 

[Katt66]

Vulture hocks are the long stiff feathers on the upper thighs ofcertain feather legged breeds. They almost resemble a second pair of wings on some birds.
For an example look up d'uccles.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Vulture hocks are the long stiff feathers on the upper thighs ofcertain feather legged breeds. They almost resemble a second pair of wings on some birds.
For an example look up d'uccles.

Ah ha, I learned something new. If I hadn't ventured giving the wrong answer, I might have never known what those feathers were called : )

 

[bumpercarr]

here are some vulture hocks on 5 week olds:





They aren't as pronounced as some, but you can see that they have long stiff feathers on their hock areas (knees sort of). Hope that helps.

 

[Katt66]

Yeah. For brahmas and cochins and some other breeds they're a big fault here in the US. But for breeds like D'uccles they're an adorable part of the breed standard.

 

[livininbrazil]

Henry might do some kind of abbreviated crow kind of thing right after she lays her first egg.

 

[HenHacienda]

This is actually a Breda Fowl, but if you look at the stiff feathers on it's legs those are Vulture hocks.