Uses: Exhibition. Utility: meat.
Eggs: 170 - 200 tinted. Origin: Asia
Weight: Cock: 4.55 - 5.45Kg, Hen: 3.2 - 4.1Kg.
Bantam Cock: 1080g, Hen: 910g.
Colours: Blue Partridge, Buff Columbian, Dark, Gold, Light, White, (Standardised UK) and Blue (Non Standard).
Useful to Know: Feathered feet are difficult to keep clean and with unbroken feathers: They are not suited to muddy conditions.
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The Brahma Chicken has received alot of coverage in the poultry press over the latter years of the 19th Century concerning the true origins of the breed. There were two schools of thought, one believed the breed came from part of India - near the Brahmaputra river (which is now part of Bangladesh) and the other that they were created in America, decended from a close relation to the Cochin - The Shanghais originally from China and crossed with birds that looked similar to Malays. This second theory is the one that most people generally accept now but history is littered with different names and theories about the breed. The Brahma Club was formed some time around the late 1800's and they were a popular breed up until the First World War when numbers declined. The Brahma Club ceased to exist by the start of the Second World War. The Brahma made a come back in the UK during the 1960's with imports from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The Brahma was represented by the Rare Poultry Society when it was created in 1969 but The Brahma Club of Great Britain took over in 1973 when it was formed.
The Brahma was first admitted to the British Poultry Standard in 1865 with light and pencilled varieties being the first standardised birds.
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