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Welcome to BYC! Glad you decided to join our flock. I agree with Wyandottes7. He looks like a blue Easter Egger to me. I've raised EEs for years, and have had a number of them with no beards and single combs. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. What other kind of chickens do you have?
 
I have 3 easter eggers hen with beards, 4 rode island red Hans, red island red mix hen, black astrulope hen, 2 Dominics hens, porelcian Cochin hen, Rhode island red easter egger mix rooster and this grey ee
 
10Momma14 said:
I have 3 easter eggers hen with beards, 4 rode island red Hans, red island red mix hen, black astrulope hen, 2 Dominics hens, porelcian Cochin hen, Rhode island red easter egger mix rooster and this grey ee
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You have a nice mix of breeds. Black Australorps are my favorite standard breed; extremely hardy, calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter, made lap pets of them), and excellent layers of large, brown eggs. Good luck with your flock.
 
She was our only hen that wanted to sit, so she sat on 11 eggs. The two roosters are from then farm eggs she sat on. I wonder what kind of chicks I would get out of the black Australorp and the blue EE would make. I'm thinking about breeding this spring if she will go into setting mode again this year.
 
After these roos hit maturity, what is there tempment? We had to kill our black Australorp rooster because he kept attacking my daughter and was breaking skin even with his nails clipped. She was so terrified of him. This one she is calm around, and doesn't mind him being out in the yard.

Another question, has anyone heard that if you mess with a rooster when it is a chick. That it turns it mean?
 
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10Momma14 said:
After these roos hit maturity, what is there tempment? We had to kill our black Australorp rooster because he kept attacking my daughter and was breaking skin even with his nails clipped. She was so terrified of him. This one she is calm around, and doesn't mind him being out in the yard.

Another question, has anyone heard that if you mess with a rooster when it is a chick. That it turns it mean?
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That's rather surprising since Australorp roosters tend to be among the more gentle roosters, however it just goes to prove that old axiom that there can always be an exception in any breed. I've heard that about roosters, but in my 50 years experience it has more to do with the individual bird than it does with how much they are handled as a chick. I've had roosters that I handled a lot as chicks that turned out fine, while others were very aggressive, and I've had roosters that were not handled much as chicks that turned out both ways as well.
 
Michael OShay said:
That's rather surprising since Australorp roosters tend to be among the more gentle roosters, however it just goes to prove that old axiom that there can always be an exception in any breed. I've heard that about roosters, but in my 50 years experience it has more to do with the individual bird than it does with how much they are handled as a chick. I've had roosters that I handled a lot as chicks that turned out fine, while others were very aggressive, and I've had roosters that were not handled much as chicks that turned out both ways as well.
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I think when my husband had to kill one of out best layers because she broke her leg. He saw it, and turned that way. Because he was a sweetheart before that happened, and he turned mean the next day. I have only owned chickens for a year and a half now, I'm still learning about them
 
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