Brahma Thread

[Illia]

Very nice head on that Blue Partridge boy!

 

[SarahIrl]

Yeah, and they ALL have green eyes to boot! Green eyes a bit of a rarity over here.

 

[pgpoultry]

My Blue Partridges have green eyes.

Close up

 

[SarahIrl]

I hope mine grows up to be like him! I love my brahmas, but enjoy crossing colours even more... so I have 2 pens now: one pen has a gold/black patridge rooster with two blue hens, and the other pen has the blue rooster with a blue partridge hen. May well swap the girls over between pens next year for a month to get a differrent genetic line for crossing chicks back the year after.

 

[pgpoultry]

SarahIrl....your Blue Partridge pen will give you a little variety at least...50% Blue Partridge, 25% Gold Partridge and 25% Red Pyle.

 

[Sjisty]

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That's what I'm getting with my guys. These are from my blue/blue Partridges -

I love the coloring on this guy - This picture is about three weeks old now. He is absolutely beautiful!

The black guy in the back is not related.

This little girl has so much blue, she's really striking.

 

[SarahIrl]

As I only have the blue male and blue partridge pullet I need more girls for him to make it feasible to keep them together. I will not be able to hatch as many at once if I only have one hen, and by the time I can fill the incubator, the oldest eggs will be too old. I try not to stagger hatches as I hatch for other people too. I must try and find at least one more pullet for him.

Edited to add: I thought Red Pyle was red on white? So does that make it a blue/red splash? On your pic of the young boys together: that is exactly the male colouring I got from blue hen x gold rooster. Also, I got pure blacks from that crossing of colours too, as well as pure blue, well I say pure, it was single laced with black. The last pic: I sold a couple of what I thought were blue hens as 10 weeks old, and I am pretty sure they will be displaying the same colouring as they fill out.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ya'll have the most georgeous Brahmas I just can't get over the coloring on them, they are so beautiful..

 

[2 britts]

As I have had only light brahmas a long time ago,I now have both light(2-roos & 3-hens) and dark(5-roos & 2-hens) brahmas. I hatched them out in April so they are a little over 16 wks old. I was thinking of culling the roosters down to only 1 and don't know which one to keep. They are all becoming very large and very handsome looking. My question is. if I decide to keep a dark roo, what would be the outcome from a light hen and if I keep a light roo, what would be the outcome of a dark hen? I would really like to keep one of each but I would like to get some expert advice on my question first. Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[sableboi]

Keep one of each, then you don't have to guess...