Backyard Brahmas!!

[mes]

Pics are a little fuzzy. (I am not an expert at this...just learning...so others please join in and correct me if I am wrong!). I think the first looks/sounds pullet-like and the second two more cockerel.

 

[nicole63021]

These are my original hatchees

How old are your older GL Brahmas? We have 3 that we have been trying to figure out gender on as well. Yours look quite a bit different, but may also be older.

 

[Huntress78]

Pics are a little fuzzy. (I am not an expert at this...just learning...so others please join in and correct me if I am wrong!). I think the first looks/sounds pullet-like and the second two more cockerel.

I agree with this but may also be wrong.
I do feather sexing in the first couple days and even then it's not 100% accurate. By the third week some of the cockerels are catching up in feather growth and it makes it much harder to tell.

 

[mes]

How old are your older GL Brahmas? We have 3 that we have been trying to figure out gender on as well. Yours look quite a bit different, but may also be older.

They were probably 4 months (?) in that top photo. They are 11 months now and their first babies just hatched!

 

[trochefarm]

Hi! I'm not entirely sure what Henri is. My grandson's kindergarten class hatched her. (They insisted she looked like a he, and named her "Henry".) His (grandson's) teacher said she came out of a brownish egg, not small but not large. I can't find her chick pics right now, but she was very dark. So, brown egg, feathers of feet, dark chick.... I thought for a long time she might be a Cochin. But now, at @ 14 weeks or so, I'm thinking more Brahma. (??)

She has always had a limp and I could never find anything wrong with her foot or leg. I just examined her this morning (so many feathers on her legs) and noticed her right leg... the one she limps on, doesn't seem to have any muscle...or at least not much. Her left leg is nice and plump. Right leg is just thin.

Could she be a Brahma?

As for her limp, she seems to get around fine. Not picked on. I have a Silver Laced Wyandotte(two weeks older than Henri) that was always protective of her. Big Sister. So she isn't messed with much right now.

 

[elliechooks]

I managed to get some better pictures. I am hoping at least one of the three is a girl
So this is the darker one having a sit down!


The darker one showing the impressive length of his little legs!

All three together for comparison



And one of the lighter ones doing a little wing stretch for us.


So, any guesses (I'd like you all to say 2 pullets & a roo please!)

 

[elliechooks]

I managed to get some better pictures. I am hoping at least one of the three is a girl
So this is the darker one having a sit down!


The darker one showing the impressive length of his little legs!

All three together for comparison



And one of the lighter ones doing a little wing stretch for us.


So, any guesses (I'd like you all to say 2 pullets & a roo please!)

 

[trochefarm]

I managed to get some better pictures. I am hoping at least one of the three is a girl
So this is the darker one having a sit down!
So, any guesses (I'd like you all to say 2 pullets & a roo please!)

I'm no expert by a long shot, but the two lighter chicks have the feathers on the wings, so they look like little ladies to me. I know there isn't much tail feather, but still look girlie to me.

 

[fhlavaty1280]

located in nj anything but gold

 

[nicole63021]

They were probably 4 months (?) in that top photo. They are 11 months now and their first babies just hatched!

Ah, ok, so they're older in the pic than ours (hatched July 10th). They hide their genders so well, lol.