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    Hen or rooster?

    I think it's definitely a pullet! It looks a lot like one of my girls!
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    Chicks delivered tomorrow, it's 20 degrees at night, help!

    Oh, and about the male-female thing if you just ordered straight run unless you have them sexed you won't really know what they are until they are older
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    Chicks delivered tomorrow, it's 20 degrees at night, help!

    Hi there, my name is Mandy. I am new at the raising chicks thing to! I don't have tha many but I started out with 4 Black Australorp pullets that are now amost 8 weeks old and are now out in the coop. I now have 2 Blue Americaunas, 1 Splash americauna, and 1 blue orpington that are a little over...
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    BREEDS WANTED.

    Where do you live? I live in Arizona and just recently got some purebred Blue and splash Americaunas and a blue Orpington from a reputable breeder of show quality birds here! They are absolutely beautiful! I believe she may also ship hatching eggs if you are interested! Check out their website...
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    At this time I don't have any birds. I just got my coop this past Wednesday. I would love to start out with the blue aussie but, nobody close to be has any babies. Plus it really stinks because so many people will ship hatching eggs but I have no way of hatvhing them right now :-(
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    That's what I thought, I had just never heard it that way before.
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    What do you mean about outcrossing? I think you mean cross breeding, and the reason I would be doing that is because I can't find anyone here in the U.S. that has, can or will ship live Blue Australorp chicks because I don't have the means to hatch my own eggs.
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    I am not quite sure what you mean
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    The other issue I have been thinking about is if I am going to buy a few chicks from Champion lines I don't want to inbreed them, I would like to keep the quality in them. Am I thinking to much...lol?
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    That is somethong I did not know. I as far as advice goes, what are the main breeds that I should possibly cross with the Australorp? I have been e-mailing back and forth to a lady in Goodyear, AZ and her 10 year old son breeds Champion Blue, Black, and Splash Orpingtons and Ameraucanas. I was...
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    Blue Australorp breeding

    Hello everyone, My name is Mandy and I live in Tonopah, AZ. I am just starting out in the chicken world and am interested in breeding blue australorps. Can anyone offer advice? Don't have money to spend on an incubator right now, maybe later on the future. So for now I will be letting the hens...
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