4 week australorp pic anyone?

Here are some of my australorps in their (very) ugly duckling stage. They were right around 4 weeks in these picture.





And here's one at about 8-9 weeks with my two-year-old daughter

 

Here's my girl when she was 6 weeks old.

 

Springchicken -
Sex of those birds, please? I've got 3 Australorps - one I'm pretty sure is a roo - pink comb bigger than the others at 4 weeks and change. Actually "his" comb is similar to your birds. I new to this and have nothing to compare him to other than the other birds we got - a couple of barred rocks and EEs.

 

These were all packing peanuts, so they're all boys. You probably do have a little roo on your hands.

 

Here are pictures of my roo and hen, they are about 4 weeks-


This is the hen
this is the roo looking at the rain

they are both real sweethearts-

 

Here is my beautiful, sweet girl when she was about 6 weeks old last May.



Poor little homely looking thing.

 

I have a pile of 5-6 week old black aussies. They are the ugliest chickens that I have ever seen. Although they are beautiful when they grow up. I had a lady that wanted a few but when she saw them she changed her mind until I showed her adult birds.

They are so mild tempered and loving chickens. Wonderful breed. I just sexed mine tonight.

I had never heard of them until I bought a few and now everyone that sees my birds wants chicks.


Darin

 

Mine will be 5 weeks in the next couple days. My wife went down stairs to look at them the other days and says to me "Ugh, why did you choose this breed again?" Evidently, she thought they were ugly too. After I explained to her that they are supposed to be proficient brown egg layers that are winter hardy, curious, and not flighty she seemed to calm down a touch.

To of my Australorps have a single white tail feather though, I wondered what that was all about but I'm figuring it's something that will change as they age.

 

Here's a five week old pullet on the left and five week old cockerel on the right.