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Everyone is out gathering eggs!

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Very sorry to hear of your losses this year. May 2013 be a much better year for you, and yours.

I'd be pretty psyched to only have to drive an hour to get breeder BAs. As it is, I am going to have to have some hatching eggs shipped to me from 2000 miles away!

Thanks you RRWV! I was hoping to see some pics of their birds, but their reputation precedes them. No one has anything but good to say about them. I got their price list from Phyllis this past week. I am going to order eggs from them this spring (I have an excellent broody, and I am going to let...

Considering getting some BAs from Duane Urch. Does anyone here have any of his? Any pics??? Thanks, in advance!

My 16 week olds all sound like a cross between geese and the penguin, Topper, from "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town". They are hilarious in the stage between peep and boc!

Greetings, all! I have been pondering getting some proper BAs for my flock. I have become convinced that long-term, they are the better investment than breeding hatchery mutts and then culling most all of them. (that said, I won't be spending a fortune! I don't have one!) I understand that...

I have a hen who has been wearing a red leg band for over 2 years, since she was 10 weeks old. She has become the alpha hen, and nobody bothers it. Never has. On the note of the polystyrene, I am told they will eat as much of any "new" thing as they can hold, simply because it is new. I have...

I saw that! It cracked me up. My rooster Max was very offended by this, tho

Thank you Geoff. I do add cayenne to their feed as well as flax seed. I already have their replacements, at 8 weeks old. I was just hoping they might, as you say, gracefully decline, so I might be able to justify keeping my faves a bit longer. As it is, my husband is looking for dinner if he...

After almost 3 months of severely depressed egg laying, I have to ask, is 2 and a half the end of the road for productivity for BAs? I hear they would slow down a bit after 2 years, but this is major. Until August 1, I had 9 hens laying 6 eggs a day (3 were coming into molting, so I cut them...

We do!!!

We have been at an all-time low in egg production the past 2 months... but we just wait to eat eggs if we don't have any. Mu husband would blow a gasket if he had to buy eggs, while still having this many chickens on the payroll!

Both mine were hatchery hens who went broody. One within 2 months of starting to lay, and one at 2.5 yrs. old

I remember when this thread was about Australorps. Hope it will find its way back to that, again. This is where I hide from politics.

From my experience, which covers just a few years, Australorps are excellent egg-layers. This is not to say they don't go broody, because they can. I have had 2 hatchery BAs who went broody of the first 6 I bought. One became broody after just a few months of laying and went broody every 3...

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Looking forward to harmony in the Aussie group coop again...

So, would that be called Children Pox, when chickens get it???