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    Recommend a laying breed for these "needs"

    a little craziness never hurt anyone... alot can kill you but a little is ok
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    Favorite breeds?

    standard - australorps bantams (this is where it gets tricky) - mmmm i think... pekins... i'll go with pekins (thats bantam cochins for you guys )... i also like wyandotte, barnevelders and watermaal bearded i agree! the question is flawed
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    Recommend a laying breed for these "needs"

    YAY!!! aussie aussie aussie OI OI OI!!!! i hope you guys know what i'm on about otherwise i just seem crazy... i'm glad to hear you've made your choice good luck with your chookies. i hope they impress you as much as they impress me hayley
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    Recommend a laying breed for these "needs"

    Quote: you bet i do!!!!!your poor Austrian friend! poor guy must have kept getting questions about kangaroos!!!! you wouldn't get by long in Sydney if you didn't have some inkling of geography >< we are so darn multicultural it gets confusing sometimes... but the food is awesome anyway...
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    Recommend a laying breed for these "needs"

    Quote: Austria? AUSTRIA!?!?!?!?!:o:o:o:mad::mad::mad::mad: !!!!!! AUSTRALIA!!!!!! lol australorp's are from Australia *waves little Australian flag patriotically*. why does everyone always forget about us???? i don't know about the stock in American but the australorps in Australia hold...
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    Indian Game Bantams (Cornish Bantams)

    thanks napalongtail! that helps alot especially since your 5 yr old has no problems with them. i'm going to start a family soon and the last thing i need is a vicious rooster attacking the little ones. they sound pretty awesome... but now i'm down to my final decision... australorps or indian...
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    birchen pekin - gold or silver base? (genetics)

    today i was giving my black pekin cockerel his back rub when i discovered... he's not black! he's birchen!!! :o so now my beautiful 6 week old boy is going to be birchen i was wondering does that mean he is gold based?(mother was black and father was birchen) the reason why i ask is he has...
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    Indian Game Bantams (Cornish Bantams)

    Hi i was thinking about getting some indian game bantams as a duel purpose breed. can anyone tell me their experiences with laying taste/dressed size temperament fertility problems aggressiveness (towards humans, children, small dogs and small chickens lol) thanks alot. any photos would be...
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    dual purpose breeds?

    DONKEYS!?!?! thats such a funny thought. did you even see that terrible movie spoof 'Chicken Park', think 'Jurassic park' with bad acting, bad effects and GIANT CHOOKS!!!!! do you know much about the bantams cornish/indian game? someone told me that the bantams will have a dressed weight of...
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    cochin or pekin

    hehe we all knew what you meant!!! I was just laughing at the 'other country' bit! America IS the other country but I suppose its all relative to where you live, isn't it? oh well i hope we sorted it out for you Rchicks good luck! (by the way, out of interest does it have the 'bum up' pekin...
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    Recommend a laying breed for these "needs"

    Australorps are really good layers and very hardy. they are all black with a green sheen. Very docile too. i don't know how accessible they would be over there though. Wyandottes apparently lay ok during winter (but never as much as australorps) sussex (if you can get them) are reasonable...
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    cochin or pekin

    Cochins is the American way to say it. Pekin is the other country way to say it,lol. Not sure what country Bantam Cochin is the way Americans say it Pekins is the way the rest of the world says it (well at least UK, Australia, and Europe... don't know about Asia or Africa) I think its just...
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    dual purpose breeds?

    makes sense. thank greyfields! so exactly how large is a full size indian game? will it trample me? lol hayley
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    dual purpose breeds?

    wow thanks guys for the quick replies! there is a lot of food for thought here (hehe pun intended!!!). i'll have to go have a ponder. i don't think we have jersey giants in australia. and i'm not sure about the indian game though they sound excellent (neat idea for crossing the indian game roo...
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    dual purpose breeds?

    hi everyone i've got a few questions about dual purpose breeds i was hoping someone could answer. at the moment a few have caught my eye. they are (in order of preference) australorps, wyandottes (silver laced?) and orpingtons (buff?). I want a breed that will lay well (just incase i can't...
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