Australorps breed Thread

[DeesHens]

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Thank you for sharing in my happiness Ron. I enjoyed your adorable banner. ~Dee~

 

[MeanV2]

fingers crossed for you

....i have gotten 100 % out of lot of shipments, then in others 1 or 2... first batch of orps i got this year looked like pop corn popping...they were hatching like crazy...next batch, not so good ,post office broke 1/2 of the eggs in shipment the rest were milk shakes...one poor egg tried to fight it out but couldnt...so its a gamble but so worth it.last year received a shipment, lots of broken in that box ,thought ,well....this isnt going to go well..but every one of the surviving eggs hatched..had to let the air cells heal straight up for 8 days..but it worked..have had lots of good luck with the medishippers thou they can make a cocktail out of them too once in a while..dont give up ,thats the trick..get a lot of nice birds that way...

Lynne, I am too stubborn to give up. I will be hatching some of Chet's eggs this Fall or next spring!

Dan

 

[aveca]

You wont be sorry Dan.Chet and Berta have worked so hard at thier birds....I will be showing them this fall...too bad I couldnt get a blue one or 2 to hatch..the aussie breeders around here would be shocked! Im not afraid to take one along for the interest..the competition is stiff in aussie classes here..they come from MD, MASS,Ohio, tenn, NY PA a few from mid west..had almost 30 entries in aussie class last year..nice group of birds to tour..Im just going to fly under the radar and have a great time..one pullet looks like shes going to be nice, we'll see how she feathers out..you never know..

 

[groche]

Hi folks,
been away for a bit. Great to see so much chick breeding/buying happening. There's that whiff of excitement in the air at the start of hatching for the season. I wish you all successful rearing. Kurt, thanks for the appreciation of my girl pics. They're all the same girl! I'll post pics of my final selections. Reckon I've got 6 or so nice girls and I've got the cockerel selection down to 3. Great to see your blues and splashes. Folks will be haunting you for some of those once you get them going. Just from the pic of 4 older birds, I'd say that the middle 2 are pullets, purely on comb size. I've said many times though that I've not come across any surefire method of sexing young chickens other than hiring a professional.
Cheers Geoff

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Geoff,
You are right about the Tigercreek 4, two pullets and two cockerels. I am still guessing on the 6 blue and splash babies. I see 1 splash cockerel and 1 blue cockerel for sure though. I cannot wait to see how the Hupp 6 turn out, breeding may begin next winter or spring, we will see. Chet informed me that it takes about 6 generations to have true blue Australorps if you start from scratch. He has worked hard at it so he should know. Then you have to deal with type, combs, color and all the other issues to make good birds or chooks as you call them.
Kurt

 

[DeesHens]

Hi everyone!

Thought I'd post a couple pics of my new BA chicks from Privett Hatchery. It is very difficult to get any good pics as many I took were blurred with their movements. My digital Canon camera isn't the best but it is what I have to work with so there ya go.

I think one of them does act like a protective little roo already but I am so hoping it is just a dominant female.

I want egg layers for heaven sake!

~Dee~

 

[Vamvakas]

My BA's from D. Urch are 6 days old and a lot of them have grown a hairy tail and long wing feathers. This mean there girls? My other chicks from Urch (the naked necks and the RIR) have no tails at all and small wings. Maybe BA grow faster?

 

[ocap]

My BA's from D. Urch are 6 days old and a lot of them have grown a hairy tail and long wing feathers. This mean there girls? My other chicks from Urch (the naked necks and the RIR) have no tails at all and small wings. Maybe BA grow faster?

at three weeks, my BAs from Mr. Urch are still ahead of his buckeye and silver penciled wyandotte in total size, feathers are about the same. Cockerals of all three breeds have been fighting since day eight

 

[aveca]

The babies outside. they look like little pullets to me.4 BA pullets and possible 1 cockeral..,,Sorry I had a really hard time getting a shot of all of them..they scatter everywhere...baby australorp have some black orpington in thier history so they are a little hairey or poofy when they are young sometimes a poof tail but that all sheds and grows into beautiful green black feathers ...










they have come a long way already , seems like just yesterday they hatched

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Dees and Aveca,
Nice pics, and they sure grow fast!