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  1. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    The DE is great in a box for dust baths, spriknkled over chicken waste that just sits, sprinkled on roost areas and used as a preventive maintenance on the birds. It is an organic razorblade to all pests with an exoskeleton, it gets into the joints of the bugs/insects and destroys them...
  2. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    I will say this only once because there is no point in kicking a dead horse.................I don't care how well eggs are packed, if they are shipped and sit in a holding station for 5 days and then shipped again taking another 4 day to the final destination, the germ has died, as it must...
  3. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    RattlesnakeRidgeWV also has nice birds and perhaps he can ship you some hatching eggs since he is closer maybe the postal service will be better also, because it certainly sucks in the southwest area and I cannot take follks money, promise them eggs and have them show up 9 days later and dead...
  4. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    Most Folks, meaning the general public, (not serious breeders) are so used to seeing a MurryMcMurry Mutt, they are not sure what real Australorps look like. This is the best that Ive raised so far in the last say 15 years, but still no comparison to the beauts in Australia! We here in America...
  5. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    Here are some pics of just a few of our birds here at Hupp Farms. Our females are a bit on the rough side due to breeding so no pics. This is Happy Jack, We bred Gary Rossman line chicks we bought to Urch line chicks we bought to produce this cockerel........Reserve Grand Champion Large Fowl...
  6. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    Thanks Kurt ! I have popped in time to time to see what folks were saying and showing but didn't seem the need to chime in. There are more and more folks with knowledge now a days vs. when we first started talking about our favorite breeds. So I like to sit back and see what info is being...
  7. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    The tail is to be set at 40 degrees off the back, If you cull out all squirrel tailed birds and keep the flat backs for breeding, you can obtain the tail that is required by the standard. It takes time and determination to develop the traits you want in your flock but you must cull, cull, cull...
  8. huppfarm

    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    Your Dark Blue female is awesome, we have been working on Blues here In America since 2008 and have had some great luck that turned bad for us with wild bird disease and cleaned us out having to start back to square one after working so hard for the first 4 years. Trial after trial trying to...
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