New Brahma Group: Blue Partridge x Partridge, Plus Dark

[speckledhen]

I think you should do more hatching. Odds are eventually you will get more pullets, right?

 

[speckledhen]

I took some pics of all three Brahma baby groups (some BRs got in there, too, in the oldest group). Somebody want a gentle giant? Those, I got!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They are so big already. Hope you can find some homes for them.

 

[speckledhen]

They are so big already. Hope you can find some homes for them.

Me, too, Lisa. One of Brandy's 5+ week old chicks is looking a little more pullet-like that I thought at first, though it could be a slow-maturing male. The feathers are all patterned so far, no solid black or orange at all-if so, she is a partridge pullet. The males are already very obvious in that group and I have partridge, blue partridge and splash partridge in there. If so, that would be great news. I know there is one pullet in the youngest group for sure. I could at least sell them as part of a pair, which would get rid of two of those Brahma boys for me.

 

[speckledhen]

The chick on the far right is the one that may be a pullet. You can clearly see the solid color orange feathers on the other three males standing to the left of that chick. But, if it's a pullet, she is slow to feather in.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It does look promising.

 

[speckledhen]

Still feathered like a pullet on that one. Selling it with the splash male (or the blue partridge of that age) as a pair.

Three of the boys in Bonnie's bunch.

And a couple in the oldest group.
This is the splash pullet-she, her sister and the big blue partridge boy are leaving tomorrow.

 

[speckledhen]

I tried something today. The 5 week old pullet has never met her 7 week old sister and brother and they'll be traveling together tomorrow. I put all the oldest group inside their coop except the sister and brother who are leaving. Then, I got the younger splash pullet and one of the blue partridge males from Brandy's group and put them in the pen with them. The big blue partridge male lightly pecked little sister on the head and the younger blue partridge boy zipped right between them, blew up his chest and defended his sister! Good boy! He's been making the splash cockerel scream all day long with the newly beginning pecking order wars in his own group so he's already full of himself. But, they were not really men to their younger siblings, though there is quite a size difference. So, traveling in the same cage should work out fine.

 

[1muttsfan]

I was giving out treats in the nursery today and it was so fun to watch the littles running around. I have had little time in the last few weeks to just sit and smell the roses. The little Delawares, as usual, are first at the goodies, but the little Speckled Sussex are close behind them.

 

[speckledhen]

Nice young woman bought the blue partridge boy with his same age splash sister and younger splash sister today. Plus, she had a broody she couldn't break so I gave her four Brahma eggs I had collected for her broody.
Three chicks down and only twenty-five to go.