Brahma Thread

[bumpercarr]

Here is it's waddles and comb at 3.5 weeks.

Still thinking pullet. How do his/her feathers compare to the others?

 

[LaLa Chickie]

Carmen & Miranda (if they are hens) spent the night in their new coop...soon we will put the big girls in there with them....






Love my Brahmas... the sweetest breed!

 

[bumpercarr]

Carmen & Miranda (if they are hens) spent the night in their new coop...soon we will put the big girls in there with them....






Love my Brahmas... the sweetest breed!

My new coop is almost ready. I'm thinking about doing the same thing that you did....put the chooks in first and then add the big girls to them. Maybe then there will be less pecking order shuffling going on since everyone will be in a new place, or maybe it will make things worse. Let me know. My coop should be done this weekend.

 

[big medicine]

I am building a coop and have a question about door size. Do they fit thru the standard 12 inch door or do they need a larger one like 14 inch?

Something that has come up here recently at my place. My second coop is a 8' by 10' shed I bought used, and then partitioned into two breeding pens. This shed came from a hunt club and had served as dog house, more or less. It came with 4 dog doors (two per side) cut into the sides, which worked out ok, as I built a porch roof, ramp, and door, for the front hole on each side. The back holes I used as access to external nest boxes I put on the rear of each side, and has worked out well.

Now lately it seems one of my more dominant hens has taken a liking to wanting to sit on the ledge of the door in the evening, effectively blocking any late comers from being able to get in the coop. Not a big deal, throw a handful of scratch in the coop, she turns around, jumps in, and everybody gets to go to roost. But there have been some rainy days when some of the girls got wetter than they would have liked. The fact it is a fairly high entrance, and resulting steep ramp, maybe makes it easier for her to block the door, as I have not had much such issues with this on the main coop, but the doors are much lower and they can probably jump over any blockage more easily.

So I guess what I am saying, is if you got the room, bigger won't hurt a thing.

 

[bumpercarr]

I am building a coop and have a question about door size. Do they fit thru the standard 12 inch door or do they need a larger one like 14 inch?

I use a 10 1/2 inch by 13 inch for my automatic door. The only ones that really have to duck are the roosters.

 

[mrstodd]

Still thinking pullet.  How do his/her feathers compare to the others?

One of the first to feather out. I don't think I'll know until it crows or lays an egg lol it's the biggest, the only one with waddles already.

 

[Berner Mom]

Thanks everyone for the reply's!

 

[kbandwe]

I bought what I thought were 2 pullets a few months ago. Imagine my surprise when one started crowing last week. It's kinda funny that Ladybird is a roo. My question is this... Fuzzyfeet hadn't started started crowing and "its" comb and waddles are still pink where as Ladybird's are red. Do I have one of each? Fingers crossed.

 

[bumpercarr]

I bought what I thought were 2 pullets a few months ago. Imagine my surprise when one started crowing last week. It's kinda funny that Ladybird is a roo. My question is this... Fuzzyfeet hadn't started started crowing and "its" comb and waddles are still pink where as Ladybird's are red. Do I have one of each? Fingers crossed.

Probably. Pictures would help us to tell.

 

[LaLa Chickie]

My new coop is almost ready. I'm thinking about doing the same thing that you did....put the chooks in first and then add the big girls to them. Maybe then there will be less pecking order shuffling going on since everyone will be in a new place, or maybe it will make things worse. Let me know. My coop should be done this weekend.

OK, will post when it happens...we've never introduced this early on, usually 4-6months and I think those were hard . In the past we separated them with a baby gate and it was very tiresome...I hope this goes much better. We've been letting them out in the day time and so far pretty good. Only Madonna the 14yr EE is interested and gave a good peck on the butt once., so not bad!