Buff Brahma X Light Brahma=???

[v.cyr]

since our two banty chicks didn't make it, we are going back to get more this weekend, and I was thinking about getting another Brahma pullet or two, but light this time, instead of a buff... I was wondering what I might expect when I breed her to my buff roo next year...

 

[draye]

Sex Linked Brahmas. Gold hens-silver roosters.

 

[v.cyr]

thanks... that sounds handy...

 

[big medicine]

Now the resulting silver males will not be pure silver, they will also have buff bleeding through.

 

[v.cyr]

sort of like the hackles on the BR X BO Roosters we hatched had little patches of color?... when it first started showing, we thought it was blood, but it was just some color they got from their moms...

 

[big medicine]

Yep usually shows in the hackle, saddle, and maybe shoulder feathers.

 

[snowbird]

If you take pullets from this mating and breed them to the Buff father the second year you will basically get all buff male and female