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Here's a helpful article: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/hello-im-texasclucker-and-im-helping-you-learn-56-common-poultry-abbreviations.76646/

Any time but the worst heat of a hot-climate summer or the worst cold of a cold-climate winter -- as long as you can provide suitable conditions for the little ones. :D If you're using a broody you're at the mercy of her schedule. With an incubator you get to decide.

And don't even keep a bird you do like that doesn't further your flock goals.

That sounds like a good plan. Alternately, you could sell your unwanted Australorps now while they're young and valuable and use that money to buy new RIR chicks. You might sell off all but your favorite and most reliably broody of the Australorps and let her raise the chicks/hatch the eggs...