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I decided to sell Yellow and Black: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/blue-australorps-in-central-north-carolina.1504505/

Thank you. I'm trying to pick some of both the males and the female for sale to cut the weekly feed bill a bit. :D There aren't a lot of Blue Australorps available so I figured I'd give a few of the boys the chance to be something other than a chicken dinner.

@Amer, since you explained the coloring so well in re: my girls, would you mind weighing in on my boys?

They got that wash as soon as they feathered out. I don't know what a really good blue is supposed to look like.

Any more opinions on who is looking promising? Specifically, for any breeder of blues, should I be worrying about that dark wash on their backs at this age or is that just a chick feather thing?

The one thing with Craigslist and roosters is that you have to understand that they're very likely to be eaten. I *might* try to sell my unwanted Blue Australorp boys -- because they're an unusual breed. But if they don't sell I'll eat them myself rather than give them away. Likewise for the...

(Which reminds me that I have to do some ad management there today).

I sold some last year through the buy-sell-trade forum here. This year I've had good luck with Craigslist.

I have very deliberately bought more birds than I need with the specific intent of selling. I keep that in mind from the moment I place the order.

No doubt that these were boys with those combs at 3 weeks. :D

I'm not particularly sure about splash because I haven't had a confirmed splash bird, but the two noted as possible splash have a few dark feathers here and there on the lighter ground -- which is different from the dark wash across the wings on the boys where that's noted. I want temperament...

It's hard to distinguish them in the group right now. I call the dozen or so blue chicks "The Blue Blob" because they're always together and hard to tell apart. They're from Welp. I loved my first 2 hens so much I had to get more chicks and some boys to breed them. The only problem is that...

Nothing sticks out in that aspect yet for any of them.

He is a handsome bird. He's good and solid (I really wish I'd gotten weights), and has the best-developed hackles and saddles at this point so nice and early in his maturation. I don't know about that dark shadow across his wings though. If either of them actually is splash he'll move to the...

For pure pretty at this stage I like Pink and Black -- though Black's comb might be a little wonky?

Obviously 10 weeks is very early to start this process, but all 5 of my Blue Australorp straight runs turned out to be male and I will end up keeping only one so I'd at least like to have a good idea what to look for even though they have a great deal of growing to do. I've read the Australian...