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I think you're mixing two things I've said. I'm wanting to add some blue egg layers to my flock, but my project is to get something close to an Australorp, including the brown eggs, but with the silver-laced color pattern. :)

A. I am working towards egg sales and a colorful egg carton sells better. B. For keeping my breeds separate for hatching purebred Australorps. C. Personal preference -- which is what all backyard chicken things boil down to because, after all, we can't in any way compete with the commercial...

Yes, parts of Texas definitely get even hotter than we do here.

Very informative. Thanks.

My end-goal is a breeding flock of Blue Australorps, a little project flock of Silver-Laced Australorp(ish) birds, some white layers, some blue layers, and some dark brown layers (Alas, I can't get the feather-footed French Cuckoo Marans from Ideal anymore, they only have clean-legged Cuckoo...

Sounds like my kind of chicken! That rivals my California White.

Please. And how old they are when they start. I'm completely unfamiliar with that breed. Where can I get more info and what hatcheries carry them?

I want to add blue eggs to my basket and would like to hear people's experience with various blue-laying options. Ideally, I'm looking for, Guaranteed blue or blue-green eggs. None of this "can lay any color" business. I have Australorps to lay brown eggs. Egg size at least US large (56-63g)...