Ongoing Brahma Projects Thread

[big medicine]

When you say you need to improve the penciling in the blue partridge, is the pattern not there, or weak on parts of the body ?

 

[bumpercarr]

What was the breeding on the blues ? Any chance of splash in your youngsters ?

Don't think splash is a possibility. Gold partridge cock over Blue partridge hens. I didn't breed any of the blue partridge cockerels or the gold pullets before they were killed by the dogs. My intention was to have one pen with gold male/blue females and another with blue male/gold females but I didn't get to that point. I'm almost positive that my original eggs came from the same breeding, gold over blue (although there may have been some gold over gold there) because my hatch was pretty much 50/50, gold/blue. 100% positive that the father of my original eggs was gold, but not sure about whether all of the females were blue, may have been some gold or even a splash in there. I haven't gotten any splash though, but probably could breed some since I'm pretty sure I'll have a blue cockerel in the chicks and I already have some blue pullets.

So basically what I think and know that I have......dark chicks, sex unknown but can assume at least one is a cockerel (of course, you know none of them will be because I want one), gold partridge cockerel, blue partridge pullets are what I know that I have. Probably have based on statistics at least one blue partridge cockerel and at least one gold partridge pullet. I do not have any males of breeding age yet, should be able to breed this fall. I do have some females that are close to or at breeding age, but as I said, no males that old yet.

What I want: a good selection of darks, working toward show quality. Refine and fix the partridges, both gold and blue.

 

[bumpercarr]

Went out to take some inventory today since I've been gone this past week and wanted to see if I could get a better idea of what I have in the pen as far as the young'uns go. To my disappointment, looks like 3 cockerels and 3 pullets out of that last batch, I was really hoping for a 2/4 split as I could really use the pullets right now more than more cockerels. Anyway, that is what I've got and I definitely have gold of each and blue of each.

I asked this on the backyard thread, but maybe someone here knows. I just hatched some darks, 1/2 are very silver with light patterning and the other half are dark. Does this mean anything at all? I think it is probably just because the darks are silver based, but I'd like some confirmation of that. I lost all of the birds from the last batch that hatched and had noticed the difference, but was just waiting for them to grow up to see what the difference meant. This time I'd better ask before something else happens.

 

[bumpercarr]

When you say you need to improve the penciling in the blue partridge, is the pattern not there, or weak on parts of the body ?

The pattern is very light and weak. Some of that is fading from the sun, but some is inherent in the feather. I'll try to get a picture this afternoon of the older pullet. The feathers that are coming back after the dog attack are coming in better than her first year feathers, but still the pattern is not quite right. I'll get a picture so that you can see and I'll get both her old feathers and her new feathers. I think we've talked about their patterns before.....but then again I may have just thought about talking about it. That is what old age is doing to me.

 

[bumpercarr]

Okay, here goes. Here is the first pullet, 9 1/2 months old. Growing back feathers from attack, so please ignore all of the missing/broken feathers. You should be able to see her patterns in these pictures. She is blue partridge:







Now for the 11 week old pullet. She was also a survivor of the attack, so ignore her right eye, it was damaged.






She is also a blue partridge.

And just for fun, here are the 5 week olds. They didn't want to be left out, even though it is nap time so they are all vying for their favorite spots with Marmie (she loves to adopt the babies) looking on. This picture does show the cushion that I'm trying to get rid of on Marmie. Her cushion isn't fully developed yet, but you can see it coming.



Edited to correct which eye it was....having a hard time with directions this morning.

 

[cowsr4eating]

This is my silver penciled blue brahma that came from Green fire farms. I have him with 2 show quality dark hens. Ive only hatched one chick so far and it is blue. Im waiting fr them to get back to laying after their molt so I can fill my incubator.

Is this a dark brahma with blue introduced from blue partridge or splash blue partridge brahma? I've seen this breed referred to as blue silver brahma. I have several pullets/hen in this color and working on a pure cockerel. I believe I have one from a dark/blue silver cross but his blue is not as nice as yours. If we're talking about the same breed I would love to get tips on how to improve my blue in the males. The blue in my females (blue partridge and blue silver) is getting very nice, but not in the males.

 

[mothernaturesdaughter]

I do not understand color genetics very well so I cannot give that kind of advice but hopefully someone may jump in that knows how.

 

[bumpercarr]

Anyone know where I can go to get a trio of good, quality Partridge Brahmas? I am willing to travel in the continental US to get them.

 

[big medicine]

Is this a dark brahma with blue introduced from blue partridge or splash blue partridge brahma? I've seen this breed referred to as blue silver brahma. I have several pullets/hen in this color and working on a pure cockerel. I believe I have one from a dark/blue silver cross but his blue is not as nice as yours. If we're talking about the same breed I would love to get tips on how to improve my blue in the males. The blue in my females (blue partridge and blue silver) is getting very nice, but not in the males.

The cream shoulders indicate there is something besides dark(silver penciled) and blue, involved here.

Pictures would help.

 

[mothernaturesdaughter]

I really do not know what the parents were since he came directly from Green fire farms. I had assumed he was a Blue silver penciled since they had imported some of their brahmas. After recently hatching a few of his offspring I am not guessing he is an oops. He did produce males that look like they will turn out to look like him and I hope that they will be good to produce silver penciled blue chicks. The offspring are beautiful and such nice type it was a real disappointment the colors are not correct but, it gives hope any chicks produced down the line will have great leg feathering, nice heads etc.. A friend has several of their chicks that still have baby feathers but we are hoping there is a correct one or 2 in the batch.