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A redbird got into my white Malay pen the other day. I went back about an hour later and all that was left of it was a pile of feathers.

When my daughters cats follow me out to my Malay pen all may Malays run up to the wire and stare down at them like FOOD! and the cats hunker down and slowly back away from them. It is funny to watch. My Grand sons keep begging me to throw one in the pen. I put out traps to catch rats and I...

Mine LOVE rats. I place traps out for them and when I catch them I throw them in the Malay pen to watch them fight over them. The grand kids love to watch them. They want me to throw one of the cats in there.

I don't know about everybody eles's Malays but mine are like small raptors around small animals. If it is smaller than they are they will attack it, kill it, and eat it. Mine would not be safe around kittens or bunnies or small dogs or cats. To my birds they would be food. My cock killed a 7ft...

Around me is a different story. They are like a dog. When I go in the pen they are right beside me. They like to be petted. I have raised chickens for over 30 years and by far they are my favorite breed to raise.

Most people say that Malays are gentle giants. Well that is what I thought about mine to until they got up to breeding age and it was like someone flipped a switch. I found out real fast when my males got right around breeding age to separate them. I had to make sure they could not see each...

here are my young Malay chicks with mom. They are 13 weeks old and the stag is already as tall as mom.

I found it..https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/genetics-mini-series/

I know a lot of you like me play around with kippenjungle chicken calculator. http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html to try to come up with new colors for your birds. They have another one that goes one step further that is called Cross Breeds of Chickens Calculator. Say you want to cross a Malay...

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/gms4-incomplete-dominance-of-blue-feathering/ here explains the blue gene in chickens

http://www.chickencolours.com/Brownies%20&%20Khakis.pdf

you will know if you cross it to a black bird. If it was khaki the offspring would come out chocolate dun colored. If it is splash, the offspring will come out blue colored.

you really can't tell for sure unless you know the parents colors

did it come out of a mating between 2 dun birds or another khaki colored bird?

found one of a young bird

the one on the left is red and khaki

I have some Dun colored birds and Blue colored birds now Here is a Dun colored rooster

they are both on the same principle but a variation of the color. I have raised both blue and dun birds. Dun birds can vary from a Chocolate tan color to grey to black where Blue birds vary from light gray to dark grey to black. You get 3 colors out of the Dun birds. Dun, Khaki, and black. The...

yeah I stopped mine to. 12 gauge. It got 8 birds that night. I got him the next night.

They are highly melanized. Pictures don't show just how they shimmer when light reflects off them. I had another pullet the same dark dun color as the cockerel but lost her to a coon attack. I have a khaki laced pullet also but she is not as laced as this one.