They are great layers :) good mums and you can get great sized table birds out of them also. The commercial Lorp is not so big. Below is a pics of our lorps. The commercial strain and Show line.
7 month old Commercial
9 months old Commercial
13 month old commercial
Both 9 month old...
Here is a few of our chooks
This is a 9 month old boy
These 2 girls are first year layers 9 months now, with a baby coronation in front of them.
This is our 5 and bit month old boy
Then our Second year layer 14 month old.
This is our next batch of eggs (Mix of...
Thanks thy are rather fat :) they love it now they get to free range during the day in part of the yard I fenced of just for them. Our LS hate chicks so have to be kept away from them.
These are my new Coronation Sussex, we have (we hope) a future breeding pair. The roo will also have 2 Buff pullets and 2 Australorp Pullets to play with :)
Ours are lavender, here's some pics
This is the meant to be pullet she is a lot lighter in the face than the for sure roo, also tail is...
We have 2 Sussex pullets, we did have 3 but downgraded the numbers of the first flock of Australorps, LS and speckled Sussex, to make room for the 4 chicks above. They are 2 buff orps, (pullets by the looks of it so far) and 2 Coronation Sussex, one roo for sure, we hope the other is a pullet as...
Our LS first two pictures are them the day we got them, rest are from a few weeks ago
Our Roo Lukey is 21 weeks same as the pullets which are starting to look like they are coming into point of lay, which I will take pics of them today
Thank you Nicalandia, so 2nd gen we would/might get the lavender colouring. Might just try and find a lavender orp and a black orp. but not been able to find one any where in Australia yet
we just bought some buff orp's today so cute. We have some lavender Coronation Sussex, we're thinking of maybe letting our coronation rooster breed with the 2 buff pullets once of age. Just wondering has anyone else done this cross? And if so what were the results?
Just after this shot she pecked him square on the head lol. He then went to flap at the other Light Sussex hen but our Australorp Roo loves that hen so very much and also pecked him for his troubles lol
was what they looked like when they left us to a breeder of speckled sussex for 10 plus years so think he should know his speckled by now lol if he is wrong oh well we sold them as red chooks as we had no clue. It was him that came to us and look them over fully then said they are speckled and...