New Brahma Group: Blue Partridge x Partridge, Plus Dark

[speckledhen]

Hey, is Cora Partridge or blue Partridge? The other girls I sold were easier to tell. I think she looks blue, then I don't. Foot feathers seem blue to me. Geez, I ought to be able to tell by now.
@Sjisty
@anac1979

 

[speckledhen]

Bonnie is trying to go broody on me again already! She's screeching and clucking and her chicks are not quite 8 weeks old yet. Found her sitting on four eggs, guarding them. When I took them away and put her on the roost, she went right back to the empty nest.

She rejected her chicks just 3 weeks ago. She may be one of those perpetual broodies.

I would be concerned because she still has not gained all her weight back.

 

[BeachBumBiddies]

Looks like a regular Partridge, but you're right, some of her feathers look blue. Could be her under plumage though. Cute, either way.

 

[speckledhen]

Looks like a regular Partridge, but you're right, some of her feathers look blue. Could be her under plumage though. Cute, either way.

Thanks! She was confusing me a little. She does seem more like a regular partridge, then I see a bluish tinge and am back to being uncertain again.

 

[BeachBumBiddies]

The only way I ever stopped a broody is to put her in a different pen or a small cage by herself.

 

[speckledhen]

The only way I ever stopped a broody is to put her in a different pen or a small cage by herself.

I've never been able to break one up that was really determined. The half-hearted ones are easier. Just have to figure which one she is.

 

[BeachBumBiddies]

Lol..I don't let mine hatch. They always seem to crush the eggs.

 

[Sjisty]

Boy, you always have tough Ones! If I don't look at her feet, I would say not blue, but those foot feathers . . .

 

[speckledhen]

Lol..I don't let mine hatch. They always seem to crush the eggs.

Well, the first two broodies did great, no crushed eggs. I have one Barred Rock hen, or I did (she passed away a year ago), that I called Bigfoot. She always would crush at least one egg. Those Stukel line hens are hefty!

Boy, you always have tough Ones! If I don't look at her feet, I would say not blue, but those foot feathers . . .

Yeah, that's me. Guess she'll have to get some tail feathers and then, we'll all know!

 

[speckledhen]

Miss Cora today @ 8 weeks old. And Bonnie is going broody again only three weeks after rejecting her first batch of chicks, one of whom was Cora.