Brahma Thread

[big medicine]

How are the hocks running on these birds ?

 

[cherylcohen]

The pictures I've seen look really good, why?

 

[Sjisty]

My blues and blacks are looking good. This is my current blue partridge roo. His hocks are not bad, either.

It's still hit and miss on the chicks, though, I keep popping up some major vulture hocks!

Petey - love his chest!

 

[cherylcohen]

gorgeous! Who carries the vulture hock gene, female or male or both?

 

[Illia]

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You know, you can actually use Petey to work on Gold Laced birds. Being that Partridge aren't very far from Gold Laced anyway. . .

 

[Sjisty]

Petey hasn't started to crow yet, but he has started to mount the girls, so I'm going to decide pretty soon what color to pair him with.

As for the vulture hocks, it's mostly my boys who have them, so I'm not sure who carries them.

 

[big medicine]

This is the simplified version, (which fits how my brain works), vulture hocks are recessive, requiring a copy from each parent to produce a chick with full blown vulture hocks. Birds that look prefectly normal may still be carrying a single copy. So a bird that has visible vulture hocks, having two copies, can not help but pass a copy on to all it's chicks, and should never be used as a breeder.

This seems to most commonly come from crossing with Cochins, whose massive soft feathering can often cover this fault. Overseas vulture hocked Brahmas are allowed in many countries, which would be easier, as it takes considerable effort to breed it out.

In reality it is more complicated than that, there are likely three genes and other modifiers at play here. Bottom line is don't use birds with vultire hocks in your breeding program if you ever hope to get it out of your line. Even clean hocked birds can produce VH chicks, if it is in their familly line.

 

[big medicine]

Both sexes can be vulture hocked.

 

[big medicine]

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Doesn't appear to be anything wrong with her Tim.

 

[Tim63]

Thanks Gary.