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This popped up in my Facebook feed and I thought you guys might be interested to see as well. What we aim for with Australorps in Australia

You will absolutely know by 13 weeks id think as from there to 16 weeks crowing should start. I had two, one was lots bigger, more outgoing, larger comb and feathered in at a different rate to the other. Sure it was a boy but at the end of the day they turned out to both be girls. Go figure...

My Aussie chicks all used to hurt when they ate out of your hand. They seemed to not get where food ended and person started, but they did eventually settle down.

It's been my experience that they will constantly fly over an 8' fence to get out of their run into your own yard but don't try to jump the much lower neighbors 6' ones. go figure Think it's more about being near their owners than greener pastures.

Welcome! I think most of us have one called blackie. It's working out which one it is that's the tricky bit

Lots of people give it, they particularly like the fish ones apparently. Just read the contents well, was a show on Tele that highlighted that the contents of the chicken and meat cat foods of this one brand were identical right down to both being chicken So gourmet chicken and vegetables and...

Curious how you all handle the broody hen bit when all the chickens look alike! I locked up my broody Aussie yesterday morning much to her disgust, then stood back and had another look and decided I'd locked up the wrong one, and that one was just trying to lay an egg Had to let her out...

If you are talking about the red one in this photo I wouldn't have picked it as an isa brown. Ours were much darker in colour than that.

There are a few threads on here from when they closed and comments on them from people disapointed as they had been ordering from them for years. I wonder if it would be worth posting on those old threads asking if any of those posters still had their australorps?

Same here, I can pick up all my broody BA without a growl, can't say the same for my other breeds lol I wonder how pure the BA rooster in question is?

My Aussies eggs are about the middle colour (Australian line) Definatly not the darker brown. And yes they are purebred (the breeder has her birds used as an example on the Australorp Club of Australia website).

Just a random photo off internet but you will gent something along these lines. A white bird with bits of black on it. You might get more or less black spots. To get a splash you need to get from white to soft blue grey and from black spots to dark grey flecks. That's a lot of selective...

Yes our Australian ones look the same. These are my little guys at the same age. They were never fully black like that at that age, it took till they got their feathers instead of down for them to loose the yellow.

Never seen anyone doing that on here before. Wouldn't you get more bang for your buck just taking the supplement yourself though rather than diluting it through the chickens? Or are you doing it as much for the chickens health?

Omega 3? Do you feed that to them to get it in the eggs or something?

It's pretty common, they aren't egg machines :-) so eventually their bodies need a break from all this laying we have bred into them. Normally winter is their slow down period (just as other birds don't hatch in winter) so as you head into autumn it's common to have a reduction. They also...

Not quite right, there is interest in breeding the splash if only because it can be used with black to give you 100% blue. plus they sure are pretty

I'm going to guess black and white will give you a white birds with a few black spots leaking through here and there. White isn't used to get the other colors and white isn't available everywhere, think the US is still working on it but it's in Australia. First thing I would check is what...

If I worried if mine missed a day I'd be a nervous wreck Mine aren't all australorps but I've had months without a single egg at times and even now it's spring and alls going well I'm getting 2-4 eggs per day from 7 birds so lots of missed days from lots of them. You would have a record...

These guys should come with a weight warning! My splash has been in the nesting box at lock up time the last couple of afternoons and trying to reach in there and get her out is not easy. She weighs a tonne! Easily twice my faverolles!