Brahma Thread

[maidenwolfx80]

Okay, in an effort to get us back into safe waters, here is one of my project Brahmas. I have been getting a few solid blue girls, but only this one blue guy. At least he started out blue. Now he is looking altogether unlike anything I have ever seen! The pictures do not do him justice. He is mostly blue with this light tan coming out and now almost chocolate on his back. He is from a black Brahma hen and a lemon pyle roo.

Very beautiful bird

 

[Helen in the Desert]

Could it be Lemon Blue? looks similar to the lemon blue cochins I have seen but I don't recall the genitics of that. Beautiful bird, and a color worth keeping and working with I think.

 

[Petvet12]

That's a really nice bird. Great color and pattern.

 

[Sjisty]

Thank you. It's going to be interesting to see what he looks like when he's grown. I don't have a clue what I'm going to pair him with, though.

 

[thailand]

Um.....just to give a bit more information.....my brahma chickens have been purchased from a Thai breeder here in Thailand, who just 2 years ago imported fertile eggs from The Netherlands. He has built up his stock to something like 100 chickens now. Yes, I think they do have vulture hocks don't they, but I gather this is an accepted 'fault' by European countries.

Either way I love my Brahmas and couldn't imagine raising nicer chickens! I thought I might post a couple of photos of my best looking hen too. Can't wait for my baby roo (not the chick in question) to grow up. I have a brand new incubator waiting to be put into good use!

And just one of my previous rooster (sadly died of malaria a couple of months ago)




~ Angela

 

[pgpoultry]

Angela, I think your birds look beautiful.

The APA and European standards for Brahmas are not the same, and vulture hocks aren't considered a big problem here in Britain. Some of our birds are pretty huge here ,too.

I'm due for an unplanned flock expansion, though I am not at all sure what they chicks will look like. I found a Brahma hen sitting on 13 eggs (they free range over a large area). She refused to set elsewhere and I had to move her as I had just lost another hen to the fox when she stayed out overnight. 9 or so have good embryos on, I think, day 15-16 in the incubator. Mum is buff X Blue Partridge and dad could be anything from Blue Partridge or Dark Brahma, Naked Neck or La Flèche.....so the chicks (should they hatch) could look like just about anything.

Why do hens choose the worst places on earth to go broody?.....and being Brahma, they go broody often and are so big they cover a whole lot of eggs.

Oh and Sjisty, that blue/gold bird is amazing. I guess you could breed with a 'blue' hen, but you'll get white and black in the offspring as well as the 'blue' due to the genetics of the 'blue' colour as far as I understand.

 

[Sjisty]

I can't imagine breeding him to any color that would breed true. This morning I noticed a little pullet (I think) that has the same blue and chocolate colors. I will take a picture of her later today. Again, this is probably not a color I can duplicate, but it's going to be fun trying!

 

[Petvet12]

Pair those two up. That should bring interesting chicks.

 

[dak]

Um.....just to give a bit more information.....my brahma chickens have been purchased from a Thai breeder here in Thailand, who just 2 years ago imported fertile eggs from The Netherlands. He has built up his stock to something like 100 chickens now. Yes, I think they do have vulture hocks don't they, but I gather this is an accepted 'fault' by European countries.

Either way I love my Brahmas and couldn't imagine raising nicer chickens! I thought I might post a couple of photos of my best looking hen too. Can't wait for my baby roo (not the chick in question) to grow up. I have a brand new incubator waiting to be put into good use!

And just one of my previous rooster (sadly died of malaria a couple of months ago)




~ Angela

Pretty! Though, I do think it is funny an "Asiatic" breed had to be imported from the Netherlands.

 

[Sjisty]

Here is my blue (?) pullet.