Backyard Brahmas!!

[threesons]

No problem if I can help I will try

 

[kirbyekitchen]

Hi! You can add me to the list of new followers... HERE I AM! You guys seems like my type of folk...

-Kirby

 

[Gryphon]

Fluffasaurus is as grumbly/growly as ever, looming over the rest of the girls and laying...The smallest of the eggs! They're a solid size medium so I'm not complaining, but I find it funny that the largest of my girls is laying ping-pong ball eggs. She's incredibly steady with them, too!

 

[kirbyekitchen]

it's been the worst day and I am a bit worried about my chicks. But... I'll just wait and see! I bet things will look better in the morning!!

 

[bumpercarr]

it's been the worst day and I am a bit worried about my chicks. But... I'll just wait and see! I bet things will look better in the morning!!

Generally the chicks will clean their own feathers. Give them a day or two and they'll probably either pick it off or one of the others will pick it off or it will dry up and go away. I think your chicks are too young to get bumblefoot, I don't think I've ever heard of one getting it so young, but I could be wrong.

Here's a good read on bumblefoot. http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/07/bumblefoot-causes-treatment-warning.html

 

[kirbyekitchen]

Thank you! I'll definitely check that out!

 

[Sjisty]

ma thread!

If you are worried about your babies' feet, you can always just wash them. If the spots come off, they're poop!

 

[sharron]

Yay! Thanks, Vickis Girls, for mentioning this thread. I love my Brahmas, every one. I have been developing unusual colors, and they are not show quality, but I think they are beautiful.

Yay! Thanks, Vickis Girls, for mentioning this thread. I love my Brahmas, every one. I have been developing unusual colors, and they are not show quality, but I think they are beautiful.

ah, here you are, been waiting to see what you produce in colors

 

[Sjisty]

I have nothing new in colors. We pretty much took the winter off. I'm having problems with straight combs on some of my unusual colored Brahmas. I have no idea where the combs are coming from, I only have Brahma boys, so my chicks can't possibly be mixed breeds, but someone out there is throwing straight combs!

I do have one little beauty out of the only six we hatched over the winter. She looks like a partridge, but she has a black head and neck -

 

[Gryphon]

It could be a couple of things, either waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back there was a straight comb somewhere in the line (not knocking your birds, but Brahmas weren't always Brahmas, at one point they were a "mixed breed" and that comb has just been hidden all this time, or it's a spontaneous mutation, which can happen especially when you go through so many generations in a short time.