Brahma Thread

[Tim63]

I was not knocking NPIP. I was just pointing out it is not required in every State to show. Also, just because someone is not NPIP in no way indicates their birds are sickly, sub-par birds. My birds are inspected for p/t every year. Its my duty as a responsible breeder to insure my birds are healthy, disease free. I can hear the groans now, but here you go. The great poultry man and author, Fred Jeffery often stated, "the ax is the exhibitors best friend". Birds with chronic respiratory ailments should be culled. I have found it to be true.

Tim

 

[sharron]

big medicine, this what i bought, i know brahma, but what? thanks

 

[big medicine]

Well, looks to me to be double laced, blue laced gold.

 

[sharron]

he had marked on the cage tag, blue lace reds, how would you get that?

 

[Dirt Farmer]

I was not knocking NPIP. I was just pointing out it is not required in every State to show. Also, just because someone is not NPIP in no way indicates their birds are sickly, sub-par birds. My birds are inspected for p/t every year. Its my duty as a responsible breeder to insure my birds are healthy, disease free. I can hear the groans now, but here you go. The great poultry man and author, Fred Jeffery often stated, "the ax is the exhibitors best friend". Birds with chronic respiratory ailments should be culled. I have found it to be true.

Tim

Tim63 I didn't think you were knocking NPIP. No groaning here. I'm using culling as my only "treatment" except for medicated chick starter.

 

[big medicine]

Not sure I understand your question. How did l figure to call them double laced blue laced gold ?

 

[sharron]

Not sure I understand your question. How did l figure to call them double laced blue laced gold ?

sorry, what i meant was how did he get that color? by breeding what colors together, course i know it would probably take a few years with culling, breeding back and culling , and so forth
sorry, sometimes my fingers work faster than my brain

 

[big medicine]

I get double lacing showing up in my birds occasionally. Matter of fact I just sold a really nice splash double laced pullet at a swap this past Sunday. She was gold based and lacking the good deep red I am shooting for. Dang, if I had known, she might have helped you out with type and foot feathers here.

To my understanding, the only difference between single and double lacing is the presence(single) or absence(double) of the columbian allele. So not a big jump there.

Keeping the deep mahogany red is proving to be rather challenging. I was suprised how two dark birds can produce as many gold chicks as they do. I'm thinking this is really going to be a pet peeve with me in the future, people trying to pass off gold birds as reds.

 

[big medicine]

Just to follow up on the mahogany thing. It is dominant. So a bird carrying only one copy would look as dark as one carrying two copies. That explains some gold chicks.

 

[sharron]

well, i know the hen is striking but not thinking much of the rooster yet, but he might grow out of it, hes young yet, or at least looks to be to my eye, i have 9 young darks that bless their hearts, are so graceful that i fully expect to see them fall on their faces, and he looks like them in age.