What breed is this brahma?

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Okay thank

Thanks for updating! It looks like he's growing nicely and getting some pretty buff feathers!


If you are trying to breed Brahmas with good foot feathering, then this bird would be a poor choice for parent stock.


If his color is rare, it could be worth breeding from him anyways, but try to use females with really good foot feathering. That would be a way to keep his genes for good coloring, but get them into birds with better foot feathering.

Of course coloring and foot feathering are not the only points to consider, so you'll need to pay attention to other traits as well.

If you have lots of birds of a given breed and variety, of course you breed from the best and not the others. But if every healthy bird has some major problem with their visible traits, you have to work with what you have, and try to combine more and more of the good traits into your lines over time. Eventually you can have birds that show more good traits than any of their recent ancestors.


I can't say whether he is growing normally for his breed or if he is slower than normal. Brahmas tend to grow relatively slowly, and broilers definitely grow fast, so even a normal Brahma would look quite slow compared to broilers.

Alright
Thank you @NatJ although I do have another brahma a dark one that's my main concentration, would update on the process