Info needed! On this breed............Brahmas

[Bantimna]

Could you please share any info you know about Brahmas?
I need to know their:

Temperament
Broodiness
Egg-laying
Docile
Confinment adaptability


Thanks in advance,
Sibone

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I only have one, a HUGE light Brahma roo who is the sweetest bird in my flock. He does fine free ranging with his wife and in the run as well, and youcan walk up to him and pick him up at any time. I have no idea if this is typical, he came from Dunlaps hatchery.

 

[Illia]

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I don't think mine are old enough yet to get broody (turning a year this March) but their egg laying is pretty good - Almost as good as my Wyandottes and Polish, most of the girls lay every day or every other day, some have weeks where they lay every day, then take a couple day's break, then go at it again. Their temperaments are wonderful - Very friendly, very sassy at times, and they chatter a lot, and they're the very least likely to be bossed around. My brahmas never get a beating from someone else. One of my hens, Cheesecake, even bosses me EE rooster around. He can't touch her.

They're very docile, and they do pretty well to confinement. Since my girls are allowed a 3 acre pasture to roam in with a couple buildings to sleep in at night, they are pretty use dto being pampered, and if I lock them in their building/coop at day, the Brahmas will pace back and forth and back and forth - But that's because they are spoiled with such vast land.

I'd certainly recommend them, as they are probably my favorite of all my chickens right now, and they're not very common at all.

 

[Bantimna]

Good to hear such good reports.
I'm looking for a rare breed in SA, and people that are quite close to my home town.
How is their Dual-purpose properties?

 

[Angelline]

They are the greatest breed in the world

Friendly, funny, broody if needed, ours usually lay eggs every other day but sometimes they lay daily, they do well in a coop but love to free range. They are also very tender and juicy.

 

[Illia]

I don't know entirely on dual purpose - My girls are pretty beefy looking though

I don't have any roos, but I certainly want one!

If I were to choose one breed of my girls to keep, I'd choose the Brahmas. Course, this is with my Ameraucanas and BC Marans excluded, as they are only chicks and I'm dying to see their eggs when they lay.

 

[RAREROO]

Here is the Brahma thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=169790