Hey everyone, I've got a 4 year old Australorp girl that isn't walking properly, she seems quite weak and her muscles tremor slightly when she does try to walk (a symptom of the weakness I'd imagine). I took her inside and checked her and she has a pretty bad mite infestation (mites on nearly...
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I have an odd situation going on with my blue Australorp Blueberry who is nearly seven months old. She laid her first egg just over 7 weeks ago and has not laid since. We did have to take her rooster buddy away a couple days afterwards as he finally started to crow and we can’t...
Hi everybody. I have a 6-7 month old Black Australorp hen, she is really sweet and friendly with us and got sick suddenly. She gets bullied a lot by the other hens and a few days ago when we saw her a little weak, we brought her inside to eat and drink.
Right now she is inside in a cage. She...
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We have two Australorp chickens we’ve raised since 5 weeks, they were from a straight run mix.
I’ve done my best to research the breed, and have not come to a solid conclusion on their sexes. They do both crow - which I enjoy but our neighbors do not. They’re about 5 months old now...
Hey everyone!! So I was just out feeding my 8 chickens, 6 black australorps (hens), 1 black jersey giant (hen) and 1 salmon faverolle (rooster), and couldn’t find one of the hens. I told my hubby to check the coop, we haven’t put in the 4 best boxes yet as we weren’t expecting the girls to lay...
Hello! I got another mystery gender on my hands. I'm worrying it's a rooster, but praying it's a hen! (S)he is around 9 to 10 weeks old. I have never owned a australorp before, so I have no clue what the differences are or what each gender looks like. Thanks for any and all guesses! And let's...