Brahma Thread

[big medicine]

Don't know that they where used in developing them, or are a by product. With projects like this, you raise many chicks, hoping for the few that recieved the combination of genes you where shooting for. You often end up with some interesting side shoots as well.

 

[ElitePoultry]

Thanks big med! So why does everyone say Dan created these to created the buff laced? That's honestly why i acquired them. I thought they were an asset in breeding buff laced. I cant wait till my silver laced mature and start laying. Im really looking forward to those beauties. But my Buff Laced laid her first today! And heres my palomino Brahma. Whatdya think?

 

[Sjisty]

He looks a lot like my red splash roo.



This is a lemon pyle, also very similar, only with more blue in the tail than your palomino.

 

[big medicine]

Thanks big med! So why does everyone say Dan created these to created the buff laced? That's honestly why i acquired them. I thought they were an asset in breeding buff laced.
I cant wait till my silver laced mature and start laying. Im really looking forward to those beauties.
But my Buff Laced laid her first today!

Honestly, I am a little perplexed myself sometimes, with what is all said about Dan, and his birds.

My best guess is the "palominos" are genetically close, but may lack a key component, or two, for single lacing. Judging from pictures I have seen of some folks buff laced flocks, I suspect there will be a higher percentage of palominos in the future. As in any breeding program, selection of your breeders determines your future success. Inclusion of birds with less than ideal lacing in breeding pens, will not likely improve the situation.

 

[big medicine]

Sjisty, refresh my memory here. The females to the birds you posted above are penciled, right ?

 

[Sjisty]

Sjisty, refresh my memory here. The females to the birds you posted above are penciled, right ?

Actually, the mother of the red splash is a blue partridge. The red splash is is not really a color I'm trying to perpetuate, but I like his size, so I kept him.


The lemon pyle came from my lemon pyle female and a partridge male. I'm also not setting him up to breed, he's just yard candy.

This is my lemon pyle hen - No pencilling

 

[big medicine]

Maybe we have discussed this before, but with the lemon pyle, are they a variation of splash buff columbian ?

 

[Sjisty]

Maybe we have discussed this before, but with the lemon pyle, are they a variation of splash buff columbian ?

I don't know. Years ago I bought blue partridge eggs and as a bonus I received some lemon pyle eggs. She was the only one that hatched.

 

[dak]

Thanks big med! So why does everyone say Dan created these to created the buff laced? That's honestly why i acquired them. I thought they were an asset in breeding buff laced.
I cant wait till my silver laced mature and start laying. Im really looking forward to those beauties.
But my Buff Laced laid her first today!

And heres my palomino Brahma. Whatdya think?

Seems to me that "palamino" is just Buff Columbian with the dominant white gene turning the normal black columbian markings creamy white.

If Buff (Columbian) Brahmas were used, plus something with the dominant white gene to start the Buff laced project, there would be these offshoots. This is just speculation as I have never heard exactly what went into the mix to create the various project colors.

Or anyone with Buff laced Brahmas could cross them with Buffs to make these by selecting against lacing. It would take 2 generations and alot of hatching the second generation.

That said, proper lacing is difficult to maintain if non laced birds are brought in to improve type. It seems that the best typed birds are never the birds with the best lacing.

 

[Tim63]

Yeah, thats why it is easier to win with a solid colored bird. It is extremely difficult to put perfect(or very near) color AND type in the same bird. Some shows I have gone to this year, 80% of class champions are black. I still prefer the parti colored bird.....its a challenge.


Tim