Australorps breed Thread

[aveca]

Yes thats the one, Stacy drove way over there to get several of them..She will be setting up this spring , she sets up early being in tenn, its a little warmer there..so contact her if you want any hatching eggs.. she'll be sending me some this spring..I am sending her delawares so get your name in with her or contact the origional breeder at the bulldog page and see what they have..so that should help people trying to get started now..Im bit behind this year but next year I will have a lot. more to work with.

 

[larryp]

Hi a new hatch here. I want cross my black austrope roo with hen or ba hen with rr or columbia roo to get different colors. any suggestions? I want chicks with different colors such as black and red, red barred etc. I have red sex link, black sex ink, white leg, barred rock, Mixed breed, columbia , rhode island red, andb lack austrolope hens and ba rhode island red and colunbia roo. any combinations for color appreciated.

 

[aveca]

I think you need a plan, mottled? lavender? then study what other people have done to get those colors. In the past a farmer would have a need , like winter egg laying increase..some dabbled in colors..If you are going to keep it a correct australorp you would have to use a correct foundation breed like orpington..might be interesting what you get..at the same time you have to keep the tight feather..at one point in history they added a touch of cochin, not so much in america but in england then they bred back out into australorps to keep the clean leg and got a neater tail out of,,its a plan like that.if you breed orps in you need to remind yourself that you need to get your color then work back toward the tight feather..
in australia there are whites, chocolates,blacks so far.suddenly someone told me that murry mcmurray is offering white orpingtons , Im sure they would be more suited to australorps.

 

[tigercreek]

I ordered a couple of white orpingtons along with my Australrop order, to arrive in the first week of Feburary from McMurray. Hope there isn't a snow storm in Iowa ! Don't think I want to outcross for color though, I really like the black, But I do agree, that the orpington would be the way to go for an outcross for color. Don't think you would get red, but in a couple generations you could get blue (grey) and splash. There was a thread on here from Hupp asking about how you can get a lavender Australorp, and some one told him the breeding sequence. They said to cross a blue or splash orp rooster to an Australorp hen. Keep blue roos and cross to Australorp hens. Keep blue hens and cross them back to Australorp rooster. I assume the last rooster is blue, or carries the blue gene? Maybe these are all from the orginal cross to the orp?? I wasn't really clear on that. Might get better results if you posted another thread . You might get someone with more genetics knowledge to give you a more difinative answer. .......stan

 

[cubakid]

Anyone in the US have Bantam Australorps. I have seen BBS Orpington bantams but not Australorp bantams?

 

[aveca]

I saw a bantam black orpington in here , the person posted several pictures..that bird could have been a bantam australorp champion, he was a little tighter feathered than you might want an orp and hed a super nice build . It was over a year ago. Im sorry I cant remember the persons name you might try the search in here..I think it will come up in a topic line

 

[aveca]

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I hope you post some pictures of them as they grow..I saw the ad where mcmurrays was selling them..Interesting.

 

[cubalaya]

heres my rooster and my favorite hen. not the best pic, they look better in person

 

[Inkheart]

Very nice!!!!

 

[jc12551]

Australorps are my all-time favorite chicken (out of the two breeds I have had

). I had two sisters that I had to give away when I moved in August. You can see them in my avatar in the hammock with my oldest son. He taught them to walk on a leash with a toy dog sized harness. One girl laid 350 eggs and her sister laid 348 in one year-sept. to sept. Can't beat that. At 2 1/2 they were still going strong. I miss them so much! I am ordering some from Cackle this year. Any idea on the quality I might get from them?