BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

[Auntiejessi3]

@Auntiejessi3 I can’t remember if I’ve suggested this before but would it benefit you for me to send you pictures of the Orpington pages out of the British Poultry Standards? Or is the information accessible to you?

I don't breed them anymore, unfortunately. My roo did some serious damage to some of my older smaller ladies of different breeds (not on purpose, he was just entirely too big for them) I sold him and my blue orp hen to a fella who bought a ton of their chicks from me. I kept the rest of the hens, it's been downhill since. My splash died of a reproductive infection I just couldn't get a handle on, my lavender went broody a second time last summer during a heat wave and died in the nest box, and my sweet chocolate girl got a crop blockage that wouldn't come loose. All I have is Dahlia now and she is a healthy tough ol "B". But I appreciate the offer

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I don't normally get broodys until May and I'm 6 deep already with a couple more clucking about it.

Heyyyyy....a couple of those were your doings !!

#Co-Conspirator

I plead the 5th ️

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

I don't breed them anymore, unfortunately. My roo did some serious damage to some of my older smaller ladies of different breeds (not on purpose, he was just entirely too big for them) I sold him and my blue orp hen to a fella who bought a ton of their chicks from me. I kept the rest of the hens, it's been downhill since. My splash died of a reproductive infection I just couldn't get a handle on, my lavender went broody a second time last summer during a heat wave and died in the nest box, and my sweet chocolate girl got a crop blockage that wouldn't come loose. All I have is Dahlia now and she is a healthy tough ol "B". But I appreciate the offer

That’s a shame, those big boys need big ladies. That’s why I’ve had to keep Blue with the breeding Brahmas despite his infertility, because he’s too big for the other hens (not that he treads them much anymore).

What birds you you have now?

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

I don’t usually do digital art but it’s easier to colour in. Here are some different colours I would want to breed the Grouseleg breed in. White-breasted golden is based on Freddy, and Gold-necked blue on my Braham cockerel ‘the colonel’.

The empty two are open for suggestions.

I’d focus on white and white-breasted golden first.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

‘The Colonel’ he had golden hackles but not saddle or shoulders. He died two Easters ago randomly, only having one chick, boots my blue pullet.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I plead the 5th ️

I'm. Sure. You. Do. !!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

That’s a shame, those big boys need big ladies. That’s why I’ve had to keep Blue with the breeding Brahmas despite his infertility, because he’s too big for the other hens (not that he treads them much anymore).

What birds you you have now?

Yes they do, I wanted to breed them exclusively, but won't get rid of my OG ladies and my current setup doesn't have anywhere to put them.
I currently have:
5yr old Whiting True Blue
5 yr old Light Brahma
4 yr old OE
3 yr old English Orpington
2 yr old OE
1 yr old Splash Wheaten Ameraucana
1 yr old Wheaten Marans
2- 6 month old Wheaten Marans
1-8 week old Cream Legbar
2-8 week old Bielefelders
3-5 week old multigen OE's
1- 6 month old Wheaten Marans cockerel
And a partridge in a pear tree

 

[Auntiejessi3]

View attachment 4107398I don’t usually do digital art but it’s easier to colour in. Here are some different colours I would want to breed the Grouseleg breed in. White-breasted golden is based on Freddy, and Gold-necked blue on my Braham cockerel ‘the colonel’.

The empty two are open for suggestions.

I’d focus on white and white-breasted golden first.

I love the white breasted golden, and blue breasted golden!

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

I love the white breasted golden, and blue breasted golden!

Freddy and Echo, who have these patterns.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Freddy and Echo, who have these patterns.View attachment 4107443View attachment 4107444

That's what I'm talking about