Brahma Thread

[LukesCityHens]

That would be fantastic thank you very much

I could ship eggs off my darks, I'm not a big fan of mailing chicks (as I used to work at the p.o.)

 

[Tammy N]

Quote: Yes and he is a Great guy PM me ill send you his info. Tammy

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Wow, what variety of Brahma do you raise ?

Actually, I can't raise a lap chicken to save my life. LOL. But I don't try. All mine breeds come running to me when I'm in the area, but NONE like to be picked up. WHich is fine. The only reason I have to pick them up is to check them if need be and eat them. LOL

 

[Dirt Farmer]

My nine and half week old LF Partridge Brahmas are crowing. I don't mean practicing, I mean crowing. Never heard of such a thing with Brahmas. My previous LF Lights started crowing more like ten months. Oh well, one of the few down sides to the Brahmas are the slow development. Looks like that's going to be less of an issue for me with this line. I have two partridge lines, and only one line is crowing, the other is silent to this point. Its always interesting to me how various lines differ. The crowing line is less concerned about my presence in the coop, one pullet even lets me pick her up. The silent line takes great care to avoid me. Doesn't take much to amuse me.

 

[big medicine]

My nine and half week old LF Partridge Brahmas are crowing. I don't mean practicing, I mean crowing. Never heard of such a thing with Brahmas. My previous LF Lights started crowing more like ten months. Oh well, one of the few down sides to the Brahmas are the slow development. Looks like that's going to be less of an issue for me with this line. I have two partridge lines, and only one line is crowing, the other is silent to this point. Its always interesting to me how various lines differ. The crowing line is less concerned about my presence in the coop, one pullet even lets me pick her up. The silent line takes great care to avoid me. Doesn't take much to amuse me.

Just out of curiosity, are the adults of the crowing line much smaller at maturity than the silent line ?

 

[big medicine]

Actually, I can't raise a lap chicken to save my life. LOL. But I don't try. All mine breeds come running to me when I'm in the area, but NONE like to be picked up. WHich is fine. The only reason I have to pick them up is to check them if need be and eat them. LOL

I don't pick mine up much, maybe to check wing color, general development, in the youngsters, or move to new pens, and so on. I wish they were wild enough that you didn't have to be so carefull of not stepping on their toes, or footfeathers, when in the coop.

When the NPIP lady comes out to blood test, she just keeps picking up and testing Brahma hens while I'm grabbing the Cornish, or running around with a landing net trying snag the dang guineas as they bounce off the walls .

 

[Dirt Farmer]

Just out of curiosity, are the adults of the crowing line much smaller at maturity than the silent line ?

That's an interesting question. I don't know because I bought chicks and had them shipped with both lines. Currently the crowing line is bigger as might be expected. It will be interesting if the slower developers finish bigger. I wish I had bigger numbers to assess. I lost my first birds ever to predation this year. I had too many chickens this spring, and tried growing some out in a flimsy portable ark. I came home from work one day to find I only had three gold/partridge brahmas left from the line I was most interested in. One was dead beside the ark, and I found feathers out in the field about 200-300 feet away. Looked like coyote work. Had I known he was coming there were other birds in there I would have gladly given him, like the cross beak ameracuana.

 

[Tim63]

That's an interesting question. I don't know because I bought chicks and had them shipped with both lines. Currently the crowing line is bigger as might be expected. It will be interesting if the slower developers finish bigger. I wish I had bigger numbers to assess. I lost my first birds ever to predation this year. I had too many chickens this spring, and tried growing some out in a flimsy portable ark. I came home from work one day to find I only had three gold/partridge brahmas left from the line I was most interested in. One was dead beside the ark, and I found feathers out in the field about 200-300 feet away. Looked like coyote work. Had I known he was coming there were other birds in there I would have gladly given him, like the cross beak ameracuana.

They say that predators are the best chicken judges. They ALWAYS take the very best birds.

 

[brahmabreeder]

Buff cockerel got Reserve variety.
Light Pullet got Reserve variety, reserve breed, and reserve Asiatic.
Light hen got best Asiatic, best variety, best breed, and Cham. LF.
These were all entered into the junior.

 

[brahmabreeder]

I had another buff cock who got reserve variety but the pictures haven't been uploading on this site very well for me lately. I was the only one in the junior to show Brahmas. There were roughly 20 junior exhibitors and in the Asiatic class about 10 or 12 birds. I also got first place on my showmanship.