Brahma Thread

[Tim63]

A bop would be in order. The whole "show quality" business drives me crazy. I hatch a hundred or so every year and maybe a fifth end up being what I would consider show worthy. Ruthless culling is required to be successful at showing or breeding.

 

[LukesCityHens]

A bop would be in order. The whole "show quality" business drives me crazy. I hatch a hundred or so every year and maybe a fifth end up being what I would consider show worthy. Ruthless culling is required to be successful at showing or breeding.

You don't have to cull all of them....you can send them my way!

My GF has made the house into a chicken sanctuary. If I want to eat a chicken I have to go down to my friends house and get my meat birds and have it clean and in a package before I come back with it.....

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

WOW, awesome! They must be good if you can already tell they are show birds and they are STILL in the hatcher. What line are they out of? I might need to get some of those.

Ok since we are taking it literally

lol let me refraze the stock they come from are show quality

so therefore increasing our odds of some high quality breeders to work with

. They came from Dick Hortsman.

Yes I do realize of course that you would never get all high quality birds but starting with quality is better than starting with who knows what.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Good for you!!! I bet they Turn out PERFECT!!!!! We want peeper pictures!!!

I will be very happy with just good healthy cute breeding stock. A few award winners might be nice for the kids to show or maybe we might get a little carried away

. I ordered one of those new machines that can predict the quality of the chic before its hatched

. oh yeh and they will be perfectly mine, mine mine.

 

[cmom]

Each egg I hatch is like a Christmas present. The eggs are the Christmas packages...

 

[Vickis Girls]

I use a ladder roost for all my Brahmas, the first rung is 13 inches from the floor, they are heavy birds and they all want to be on the top rung of the roost. I have had a hen pushed off and she broke her leg, so all my roosts now have a shelve under the top rung with wire trays covered with newspaper for easy clean up and safety.
Lorrie

Lorrie,
Sorry about your chicken's leg. Do vet's in your area care for chickens? I hope she's o.k. Please keep us updated on her. Thanks for letting us know about what happened so we can avoid it ourselves. I'll make sure the roosts in my coop all go in at a foot or less.
Vicki

 

[Vickis Girls]

Sk8inChick(in),
Your girls are beautiful! I can see why you're proud.Good to see the patio furniture being used by them!!! Thanks for sharing
Vicki

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Lorrie, Dont foget about the nesting boxes too! keep them easily accessable or provide a nice wide ramp

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Each egg I hatch is like a Christmas present. The eggs are the Christmas packages...

You know it! I run around with a smooshed nose after every hatch!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

TIM you need one of these!!! no culling necessary, just go throw the eggs in the woods!