Brahma Thread

[Dirt Farmer]

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Do these look like pur buff chicks or some other color

Did they look like these partridge as day olds?

 

[Nikki816]

This was the group pic at a day or two old.

This is the back of one at a few days old

 

[Nikki816]

This is one that looks more like what I expected. I contacted the seller and she said they also have buff laced brahmas in a different coop.

 

[Dirt Farmer]

This is one that looks more like what I expected. I contacted the seller and she said they also have buff laced brahmas in a different coop.

Well it will be interesting to grow them out. They do look partridge like at that age, but not quite right. I wonder if they could be a cross of buff and laced. I think there is some link between laced and partridge genetically. I'm not well versed enough in it to make that much sense of the chicken calculator. Looks like a job for Big Medicine. I'll light up the Brahma spotlight on the night sky.

 

[big medicine]

In has been my experience that a cross of a laced bird with a columbian (light or buff) will produce birds much more columbian looking with some very slight partial lacing or ticking visable.

Really there is only a few slight realignments of pretty similar genetics that determine if the birds pattern will be columbian, single laced, double laced, penciled (partridge/dark). We used to get a tweener pattern that was some where between pencilled and double laced that my daughters called "Paislies", not unattractive in itself, but was not looking for yet another side project at the time.

I think you guys may be getting more worried about what they look like at very young age than I do. As long as they are sound and healthy, just keep shoveling the feed to them and see what blossums, that's half the fun.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Hey guys got a question my Partridge Brahma hen tends to spend a lot of time in the corners or on the ground quiet. Do you think she is about to lay or should I be concerned?.

 

[brahmabreeder]

bird 1
bird 2. Not sure why her head looks so small here. She's the one in my avatar.
bird 2
bird 1
These are two lights I'm showing at Nationals. Tail still needs to come in some on the one.

 

[Nikki816]

In has been my experience that a cross of a laced bird with a columbian (light or buff) will produce birds much more columbian looking with some very slight partial lacing or ticking visable.

Really there is only a few slight realignments of pretty similar genetics that determine if the birds pattern will be columbian, single laced, double laced, penciled (partridge/dark). We used to get a tweener pattern that was some where between pencilled and double laced that my daughters called "Paislies", not unattractive in itself, but was not looking for yet another side project at the time.

I think you guys may be getting more worried about what they look like at very young age than I do. As long as they are sound and healthy, just keep shoveling the feed to them and see what blossums, that's half the fun.

Lol, I am impatient... I do the same with rabbits. I showed the breeder the pics and she has never seen any that color in her chicks. She offered me new eggs, but Itold her I was fine with these. I like birds that look different. Makes it easier to name them if they look different... the joys of a small flock. Since these are in a play pen in my dinning room right now I see them a lot. They'll go out in the small coop next week afternthe chicks for my aunt leaves

 

[CarolinaHen]

Genetics/color question...... Jubilee Orp cockrel over Dark Brahma hen. Would the jubilee coloring be dominant? Good idea, or recipe for disaster?

 

[big medicine]

Genetics/color question...... Jubilee Orp cockrel over Dark Brahma hen. Would the jubilee coloring be dominant? Good idea, or recipe for disaster?

I'm thinking you got the makings for a possible zombie apocalypse there.

Seriously, I'm not sure of the genetics of the jubilee pattern. I tried Henk's calculator to see if there might be something close. Not familiar enough with either pattern to be sure if the millefleur pattern is the same, or even really close, but why let that slow us down.

Using that cross, the calculator says, says a partial or incomplete patterned columbian, which I suspect will look like a kinda mossy backed columbian pattern. The pullets will be red/gold. Cockerels will be split gold/silver so will favor the silver, with gold likely showing in hackles and saddle.I would guess maybe a little deeper shade of gold, but something on the order of this.



Calculator also says will be split for mottled(the white tips) a recessive, so will not show in first generation crosses. Breeding the chicks to each other, or the mottled parent, could produce mottled chicks the second generation.

Comb wise, the pea comb of the Brahma would be dominant, as would the leg feathering, neither of which would likely be quite as strong as in a pure Brahma.