Brahma Thread

[dak]

Sort of true. I have white crop up in the wings of some of my buff males every year. I have not yet done the cross, so it is a result of Greg doing the cross years ago. The females will pass the white to their male offspring even if they show no white. I showed three of the Buff males with white last year at Shawnee. The judge was so impressed by their type he placed them high, 2nd and third if memory serves. I sold them all. I pointed it out to the buyers and told them it would show up in some of the offspring, mostly males AND the females might carry and pass it as well. Minor thing....the females are worth it.

Tim

I'm seeing the white tipped wing feathers in my Buff males too. I'm not convinced that it is from a cross to Lights. A number of my other breeds/varieties have this happen. There hasn't been a recent cross to White to my knowledge. Just another fault to select against. If this pullet produced a disproportionate number of males with white wingtips I will become a believer.

 

[Tim63]

In my experience, white on primary tips is stress related. The white I'm speaking of is specifically in the wing bows and coverts. Usually these birds will have white under the saddles at the base of the tail also. You have to look under the saddles to see it. When my males are growing in their final sets of primaries, I pull any white tipped ones when they are first coming in. They are USUALLY(not always) replaced with ones of correct color. It happens in the Buffs and Lights. The thing is its hard to identify the females that are carrying the white. Greg always said they hide it so well. A few years back I culled EVERY male with the white in wingbows and coverts. It still shows up, so I know its coming from females that don't show it. Like I said...its a minor concern. Gosh I still get a few light males with buff in their bows as well. I have two this year that I absolutly love with a slight buff tint in wingbows. Not sun related as they are shaded. Hopefully the bluing shampoo will lessin it some. Their type is eye-popping though.

Tim

 

[Apdeb]

Tim do you have buff bantams pix please
I inherited a sweet 4 month old pullet
What should her weight be?

 

[Tim63]

Heck, look at dak's recent buff pullet photo for an excellent example. There are tons of photos on my profile I think. Standard weights according to the Bantam standard are: Cock-38 oz, Hen- 34oz, Cockerel- 34oz and Pullet- 30oz. Most birds shown are above these weights.

Tim

 

[big medicine]

How about white tips on a foot feather or two ? I've had that pop up in some gold based birds occasionally. But I'm not the dare devil you guys are crossing up varieties an all.

 

[Tim63]

I have not noticed that BigM. You are the KING of dare-devils. One day when time and space permits, I'll work on the White brahma bantams. My Son has some excellent white cornish for me to steal a few. Right now the Lights and Buffs are more than I can really do justice.

Tim

 

[Gryphon]

Any chance that you experienced Brahma owners could help me sex Fluffasaurus? She's about 13 weeks old, and showed red in her face much earlier than her sister and was also much less friendly. They both feathered out at the same time though, so I'm wondering if it wasn't just the heat that was affecting her more than Foofasaurus. Here's a couple of pics that I took with my phone, if you need better ones I'll dig out the real camera. I can't put up any pics comparing her to her nestmate because I had to surrender her to the vet after an accident involving a fence and a dog. I live in town so crowing early in the morning it out, although there's so many barking dogs during the day that if it was at a decent hour I'd take the risk with keeping a roo as long as it's friendly.

Also I wouldn't mind a critique on Fluffasaurus, I'm extremely impressed with Light Brahmas especially with how insanely friendly Foof was (she would pester me to pick her up so she could snuggle with me, chirring all the while. She's even run away from food to come see me! While Fluff isn't nearly as gregarious as Foof, she still will hang out near me, and never pecks me.)

 

[LaLa Chickie]

Any chance that you experienced Brahma owners could help me sex Fluffasaurus? She's about 13 weeks old, and showed red in her face much earlier than her sister and was also much less friendly. They both feathered out at the same time though, so I'm wondering if it wasn't just the heat that was affecting her more than Foofasaurus. Here's a couple of pics that I took with my phone, if you need better ones I'll dig out the real camera. I can't put up any pics comparing her to her nestmate because I had to surrender her to the vet after an accident involving a fence and a dog. I live in town so crowing early in the morning it out, although there's so many barking dogs during the day that if it was at a decent hour I'd take the risk with keeping a roo as long as it's friendly.




Also I wouldn't mind a critique on Fluffasaurus, I'm extremely impressed with Light Brahmas especially with how insanely friendly Foof was (she would pester me to pick her up so she could snuggle with me, chirring all the while. She's even run away from food to come see me! While Fluff isn't nearly as gregarious as Foof, she still will hang out near me, and never pecks me.)

I wish I had a Cockerel to tell you, but I don't. My Light Brahmas are such lovey doveys...they doo the same thing until get picked up. So sweet!

 

[crowcreek]

Just had to share this fun picture of my great niece with my buff brahmas!

 

[windyflat]

Took a ride out to OH to visit BYC member brahmabreeder yesterday..
Very nice young man with a fairly large, very fine brahma flock..
Thank you Chris for getting us started with a fine flock of LF buff brahmas
Alex sure likes them!