Australorp Pride! Let's see those pics!

[Mace Gill]

7 three year old Aussie hens, 2 one year old Jersey Giants. Been cutting back on too many treats, cutting back on grains in the treats, foraging them as much as I could this week ... just got eight eggs from nine layers ... the union is happy! Upper management is happy, rooster refused to comment.

 

[rainee63]

If he's a roo ... don't cull him! Keep him for breeding stock at least!

You can breed him with his sisters ... blues are still kind of rare in the states, if he Is a roo, and you can't keep him, SOMEONE will want him!

I want to keep him, but if I get more Aussies eggs they'll all be from the same rooster. So I wasn't sure how that worked. They're coming from a friend, and I have a little addiction to the whole hatching experience. and my incubator has been empty for 2 whole months, and now that all my babies are outside it keeps calling me...

 

[rainee63]

Plus we already know I'm not gonna be good at 'culling.' Sigh...

 

[Mace Gill]

I want to keep him, but if I get more Aussies eggs they'll all be from the same rooster. So I wasn't sure how that worked. They're coming from a friend, and I have a little addiction to the whole hatching experience. and my incubator has been empty for 2 whole months, and now that all my babies are outside it keeps calling me...

Wish I were closer to Alabama, I'd take a couple of blue pullets in a hot minute!

 

[rainee63]

Yup, the boys develop a nice showy tail.
Do you get your own eggs or local rather than shipped?

I got the eggs from a friend. And he keeps tempting me with more. I just need to do a little rearranging and get some poultry netting and I'll have an empty coop.

 

[Blue Ridge Farm]

Here' my two 10 weeks old along with a Black Asian. I think all are pullets. What does everyone else think their sex is?

 

[rainee63]

Wish I were closer to Alabama, I'd take a couple of blue pullets in a hot minute!

If I could get a job as a chick hatcher, I so would! Lol. I'm kind of afraid of having eggs shipped tho.

 

[Mace Gill]

If I could get a job as a chick hatcher, I so would! Lol. I'm kind of afraid of having eggs shipped tho.

Well, you have some gorgeous blues ... I to experiment, maybe cross a black and a blue and see what results!

 

[Mace Gill]

View attachment 1031288 View attachment 1031289 Here' my two 10 weeks old along with a Black Asian. I think all are pullets. What does everyone else think their sex is?

At a guess I'd say the blacks are pullets but their easier to sex when they're one or two weeks old, or than they are now

 

[rainee63]

Well, you have some gorgeous blues ... I to experiment, maybe cross a black and a blue and see what results!

Someone else on this thread said to breed them with black. The guy who gave them to me told me how all that works but it was over my head. Black, blue, splash... I'm still trying to get it.