Brahma Thread

[brahmabreeder]

Here's my whopper I hatched yesterday with one of it's siblings. Both are the same age, just one's HUGE. BTW it's a female.

 

[big medicine]

I started out with black Brahmas, bred to my blue partridge and got this -


and this -


I bred the blacks back to the roo above and from one black hen I'm getting -


and -


and -


The other black hen is still producing blues and blacks -

So from the resulting chicks, we can assume the male used at least is blue, correct ?

Is it possible one of the females used might be a very dark blue ? I ask this because one of the light chicks looks to be a splash, appearing to show a little color along wing and neck. As to the white chick, and it does appear white, could be recessive white. Another possibility is it could be be a very clean splash. I had some splash phase blue columbian hens that looked for all outward signs to be pure white. I suspect there may be some enhancing, and or, possibly repressing genetics involved that allow a whiter shade of splash. ( Any other old timers hearing a Procol Harum song in there head about now ?)

Breeding the white chick to a true black would be interesting. If she is splash, she should produce 100% blue chicks. If she is recessive white, depending what color is hidden by the white, and it could be splash under the white, and they produce any black chicks, it's not a splash. If they produce some colored, and some white chicks, then it likely is recessive white, and the the black bird used also carried a copy.

 

[big medicine]

Some splash blue columbian pullets mentioned above.

And as to the song reference above, for the youngsters.

 

[brahmabreeder]

My light Brahma pullet who I WAS going to show this weekend just broke a wing feather and pulled another. Guess I have to move onto the next pullet.

Hopefully she doesn't flip out while I'm washing her or I'm destined to fail. The other hen and the silkie did just fine. Still have to wash the two Leghorns and the two male Brahmas I'm bringing.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

My light Brahma pullet who I WAS going to show this weekend just broke a wing feather and pulled another. Guess I have to move onto the next pullet.

Hopefully she doesn't flip out while I'm washing her or I'm destined to fail. The other hen and the silkie did just fine. Still have to wash the two Leghorns and the two male Brahmas I'm bringing.

Always something with chickens, isn't there.

 

[Sjisty]

So from the resulting chicks, we can assume the male used at least is blue, correct ?

Is it possible one of the females used might be a very dark blue ? I ask this because one of the light chicks looks to be a splash, appearing to show a little color along wing and neck. As to the white chick, and it does appear white, could be recessive white. Another possibility is it could be be a very clean splash. I had some splash phase blue columbian hens that looked for all outward signs to be pure white. I suspect there may be some enhancing, and or, possibly repressing genetics involved that allow a whiter shade of splash. ( Any other old timers hearing a Procol Harum song in there head about now ?)

Breeding the white chick to a true black would be interesting. If she is splash, she should produce 100% blue chicks. If she is recessive white, depending what color is hidden by the white, and it could be splash under the white, and they produce any black chicks, it's not a splash. If they produce some colored, and some white chicks, then it likely is recessive white, and the the black bird used also carried a copy.

I'm guessing she's a very white blue splash. Her mother is definitely solid black. I also have two more solid white chicks(so far) from her, but they are only about 4 weeks old, so we'll see what they look like.

 

[big medicine]

To my understanding it's impossible for a black bird to produce a splash offspring. Requires a blue gene from each parent. What color is the bird sitting on somebodies knee in your last photo ?

 

[Sjisty]

To my understanding it's impossible for a black bird to produce a splash offspring. Requires a blue gene from each parent. What color is the bird sitting on somebodies knee in your last photo ?

That one is blue. He is one of the black hen's offspring.

 

[lightbrahmamama]

Here are my light brahma chicks. I ordered them from Murray Mcmurry Hatchery. All 15 arrived alive and on time. I didnt know chickens could be so cute and noisy.lol

 

[PaintedFeathers]

Eloise dug a hole

She's in "time out" for being mean to the other chickens and I think she's trying to escape haha