Brahma Thread

[gritsar]

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Not on feathering so much, but if you post some pics I might be able to help you out. I successfully sexed all of mine at 5 1/2 weeks old.

Yes, yes vortec...it's tomorrow. I just got home from the grocery store and I'm cooling off. The chickens are eating their yogurt. I'll go take pics in a few minutes.

 

[vortec]

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Not on feathering so much, but if you post some pics I might be able to help you out. I successfully sexed all of mine at 5 1/2 weeks old.

Yes, yes vortec...it's tomorrow. I just got home from the grocery store and I'm cooling off. The chickens are eating their yogurt. I'll go take pics in a few minutes.

lol, I was getting around to asking you, jk

 

[vortec]

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Great looking birds! How do you improve each generation? I am interested as this might become a hobby to breed brahmas as they are quickly becoming one of my favorite breeds

Great pics! Hope to get many many more.

vortec

 

[gritsar]

Okay, get ready for brahma overload! It's very windy today, so excuse them if they look at bit ruffled

Thor, opening his big mouth to warn the girls I was armed with a camera:

Chloe, as you can probably tell from the missing feathers on her back she's one of Thor's favorites:

Lilith, my mismatched brahma and my problem child:

Maggie, another one of Thor's favorites:

Sunny:

Lil' Bit, my half blind runt chicken. She's never had but the one tail feather.

My Thor again:

Edited because I just realized I spelled one of my girls name wrong. Shame on me!

 

[vortec]

Love the pics, expecially the one of Thor. I have never seen the dark brahma as an adult roo, but they are georguous! I like the buffs as well.

vortec

 

[silverlining]

dash it all! I bought Brahmas from the feed store. Love them to death.

Sweetest birds ever, but they were labeled as buff (which is what I wanted), and I THINK they are going to be white instead.

too bad I'm in love with them for their sweet chickenalities. I'm a first time chicken owner, and there is no way I will be able to give away these babies just because they weren't the color I wanted. Brahmas are just too sweet!

 

[KinderKorner]

My Barney has been rehomed. Luckily he isn't going to get eaten! He got a nice pet home with a few new hens! yay!


Anyway. I am looking for more feathering on the feet, and whiter. So I just keep the biggest, whitest, fluffish chicks out of each batch. And hopefully after a while mine will improve. I had a good start going, but unfortunetly a racoon got in and killed my entire flock last year except 3 pullets, and 2 roos. So I had to start quite over.

 

[gritsar]

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Talk about your foot feathering, this is a couple of my darks at 5 weeks old:

Thor used to trip over his feet feathers as a youngin'

 

[vortec]

How common is it that the brahmas will pull out there leg feathering?

vortec

 

[gritsar]

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My brahma flock is a little over a year old and none of mine do it. I've had two chickens break a foot feather off. The bleeding was minimal and they never seemed to mind.