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Australorp

Australorp

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Pros: Tamed easily, good layers,quiet, don't try to jump fences
Cons: Somewhat slows down with laying during the winter.
In April 2014, we purchased 4 Black Australorp chicks from a feed store. They were our first chickens, and we still have them.

(they were molting when these pics were taken, so that is why the second one is bald.)

They are VERY tame, very quiet, don't try to fly out of yard, smart and are a good choice if you live in an urban area. These are also very good with children and don't mind being handled. They somewhat slow down with laying during the winter, however. Also, they don't eat eggs. Once or twice I found the remains of an egg in the coop, but they never eat eggs after that.
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Hatcheries, Day Old Chicks

Hatcheries, Day Old Chicks

WoofMeowCluck
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Pros: Have lots of breeds
Cons: Gives you roosters as extras, if you order hens, you will mostly get roosters.
Okay, so my story goes like this: It was April 2014. We had just picked up our first chicks from a feed store. They were 4 Black Australorps. We still have them, and they are very tame and laying well. Since we had a good first experience with chickens, we decided to order 4 more hens from Mcmurray hatchery. We ordered 2 buff rocks (not Buff Orpingtons) ,one barred rock, and one easter egger. We were ordering as a large group from 4-h, so someone just went to Iowa to get them. Well, they gave us 6 chicks instead, so we got 3 Buff rocks, one barred rock, one Black Australorp,and one Easter Egger. One of the Buff Rocks died a few weeks later
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, so we were left with 5. As they got older, one of the buff rocks started to crow. We realised he was a rooster,so we tried to keep him quiet. Then the barred Rock started crowing. Then the black Australorp. They were making som uch noise, we just had to drop the Barred Rock and Australorp at someone's farm. We kept the Buff Rock, though, because he was so friendly. We eventually found a wildlife rehab center that would take him and put him with a large flock of hens. So we were left with 1 easter Egger, and one Buff Rock (which we thought was a hen,because it looked exactly like one.) We left for a trip to see some relatives, and when we got back, it was like someone swapped it out with a rooster. We didn't know what to do, so we just kept looking for homes for it. Until, one day we got an Email from someone who had seen out old posters at a feed store. He wanted to know if we had any left (he wanted to start incubating) so we said we had 1 left. That day I was also preparing a barn for the rabbit show at the County Fair, so we just met up there. I was happy to get all the roosters homes, but not so happy with Mcmurray hatchery.

The moral? Don't order day-old chicks from Mcmurray hatchery.
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