Blue Brahma
A variety of the Brahma
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Blue Brahma
The Blue is the self-black Brahma carrying a single copy of the incompletely dominant blue gene, which dilutes black to an even slate-blue, often with darker lacing. Because blue is heterozygous it never breeds true — blue-to-blue matings yield blue, black and splash chicks. It is recognised as a self colour in standards such as Australia's, set off handsomely against the breed's huge feather-legged frame.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 150
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus