Lavender Brahma Chicken

Description

The Lavender Brahma chicken is an even shade of light slate blue. The color is also called self blue because the plumage is all one color and because mating two lavender chickens yields 100% lavender chicks.

Brahmas have a broad head, a short beak, and a beetle brow. Their small pea comb, coupled with their large size and heavy plumage, makes them especially winter hardy.

Brahmas are large, slow growing, meaty chickens. Imported from Asia in the mid 1800s, they were the leading meat breed in the United States until about 1930.

The hens are good layers, especially in the winter months. At the age of about 6 to 7 months they start laying medium to large size eggs with brown shells. They make excellent broodies, although with their large size and feathered legs, they can sometimes be clumsy mothers.