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South Australia. The summers have been a few degrees hotter each year for the last 5

Wow I would love to see a summer that cool again. We have usually 120f to 140f for months over summer. Surprisingly the RIR and silkies coped best last year. I have frizzles and frilkies now so I'll se how they go when summer comes back

I would be very doubtful of the amricuana and doubtful of the polish. I would suggest go for an EE rather than a pure americuana , and talk to a polish breeder about them. Rocks an RIR are both good layers and have similar temperament.

The bigger problem with Marans is that many people who aren't breeders are selling birds as Marans that anyone who new what they are doing would just sell as a mixed breed. Your right about Americana, but there are breeders to vet there trying to improve the useablilty of them.

The white leghorn used to be the egg production breed of choice. They held the egg production record in the 70's. These days RIR, astralorps , and production reds match or beat the 300 eggs a year. The interesting thing I found is that all although the astralorps are an Australian breed the RIR...