Any Australorp experts or lovers there...!

[Elixafar]

Cheers Ron,
don't think I've posted the following theory from prominent breeder, George Norman before. Interested in your experience over there. " If you wish to enhance your stock's leg and eye color prevent any form of coccidiosis occurring. ...... Australorps bred from parents with black eyes and leg color end up brown eyed and slate legged. .....I am sure many excellent breeding stocks have been discarded for failing to pass on their good eye and leg color to their young. The culprit perhaps is coccidiosis." He stresses that all fowls get a form of it, with the majority overcoming it with little effect. His experience is that those that get it do so despite feed being medicated. He stresses the paramount importance of good husbandry.
Cheers Geoff

I found this. Its from Australorp thread.

 

[Elixafar]

I don’t know why someone told you this because it is not true.

I found it Amer....

 

[Amer]

I found this. Its from Australorp thread.

That breeder is saying you should prevent coccidiosis because that can cause young birds not to produce enough pigment in their legs and eyes. Fascinating! It has nothing to do with whether the parents had the proper black legs and eyes.

 

[Elixafar]

That breeder is saying you should prevent coccidiosis because that can cause young birds not to produce enough pigment in their legs and eyes. Fascinating! It has nothing to do with whether the parents had the proper black legs and eyes.

Sorry my english is not that much good..

 

[getaclue]

I use medicated chick starter, since it's all I can get here, unless I switch to a grower/flockraiser feed. I'm careful to keep their brooder clean, I don't overcrowd, waterers, and feeders are cleaned daily, and temperatures are monitored regularly. Chicks are checked over at least twice a day for pasty butt. Fortunately, I've never had to deal with coccidiosis, but I check for the symptoms, and am able to treat it immediately, if needed.

As to eye color, I've never had a problem. Leg color is not to be black, but slate. The bottoms of their feet are to be pink(ish). No yellow. Mine breed true, in regards to eye, leg, and foot color. That does not guarantee that all of them will grow out to be S.O.P. Chest curvature, back curvature, tail angle and height tend to be bigger factors as to whether they are culls, or S.O.P.

 

[Amer]

Sorry my english is not that much good..

Oh, well I hadn’t noticed.

 

[Amer]

I use medicated chick starter, since it's all I can get here, unless I switch to a grower/flockraiser feed. I'm careful to keep their brooder clean, I don't overcrowd, waterers, and feeders are cleaned daily, and temperatures are monitored regularly. Chicks are checked over at least twice a day for pasty butt. Fortunately, I've never had to deal with coccidiosis, but I check for the symptoms, and am able to treat it immediately, if needed.

As to eye color, I've never had a problem. Leg color is not to be black, but slate. The bottoms of their feet are to be pink(ish). No yellow. Mine breed true, in regards to eye, leg, and foot color. That does not guarantee that all of them will grow out to be S.O.P. Chest curvature, back curvature, tail angle and height tend to be bigger factors as to whether they are culls, or S.O.P.

You’re birds are gorgeous!

 

[getaclue]

Thank you.

 

[Elixafar]

Thank you.

My Australorp girls have blue/purple sheen. How can i get rid of thi for next generation.....

 

[Sally PB]

My Australorp girls have blue/purple sheen. How can i get rid of thi for next generation.....

That's gorgeous! Send it to me! Mine have an iridescent green sheen. Pretty, but I like purple better.