Backyard Brahmas!!

[Amberjem]

Here are the splash brahma's first chicks at ~ 1 week. One seems lighter than the other to me. Maybe a blue and a black. I am glad I don't have capacity for 270 eggs. Too tempting! Haha!

 

[SD Bird Lady]

@mescute babies, do their wings feathers appear as different as their down?

 

[mes]

@mes cute babies, do their wings feathers appear as different as their down?

It is a little hard to tell right now, but not to my eye. The color seems similar.

 

[bumpercarr]

I hate to think what my hubby would say if I had 240 eggs in the bator...it would probably be time for me to find a good lawyer.

 

[bamadude]

I hate to think what my hubby would say if I had 240 eggs in the bator...it would probably be time for me to find a good lawyer. 

Honey this is R2D2. He needs charging for 21 days.

 

[Sunshine0235]

Im really liking my little gold laced brahma, can't wait til all the feathers grow in, and I am some hatching today, so hopefully will have more than just this one by tomorrow. 'He' is 5 weeks old now.

 

[Amberjem]

Im really liking my little gold laced brahma, can't wait til all the feathers grow in, and I am some hatching today, so hopefully will have more than just this one by tomorrow. 'He' is 5 weeks old now.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Honey this is R2D2. He needs charging for 21 days.

I am wondering something. With Dark Brahma so long as the feathers are coming in patterned they are hens right?
(I have one overly friendly 4 week old chick and "she" also has the most feathering on the legs as well as some yellow in the face.)



Girl? or ......

 

[annascadp]

Yours looks like a girl to me. Check the similarity to the one in front in this photo, which was taken when they were one month old. She turned out to be a pullet, and the one in back is a cockerel. Both are Dark Brahmas, and even when he was three weeks old Sir Nigel had many feathers that were solid black. All of Neenas were "penciled," or rather splattered. (They are getting cleaner, now.)

 

[21hens-incharge]

Oh thank goodness. I was getting worried since her head is getting some feathers instead of just fluff and they are lightish.

I really like her so am very relieved.