Australorps breed Thread

[ronott1]

Forgive my noobishness, but what does DQ stand for?

Dis Qualifier--it is a bad fault that will remove a bird from competition. There is a list of them in the Standard of Perfection in the American Poultry Association rules for all breeds and then different ones for each breed.

A lot of them show up right away but some do not show up until after molt.

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Holypolish,
your BA looks like a pullet to me at 15 weeks.

Ron,
did you say you have two blues? The butt shot looks like a splash or real light blue, can't tell from the pics.
kurt

 

[ronott1]

Holypolish,
your BA looks like a pullet to me at 15 weeks.

Ron,
did you say you have two blues? The butt shot looks like a splash or real light blue, can't tell from the pics.
kurt

Yes, two blues. The pullet is very light colored.

I would love a splash! Maybe next time....

 

[MeanV2]

Ron,
I will definitely be culling before 1.5 years

I will probably thin down at 5 to 6 months. Some things are just obvious and I highly doubt would change. I am pretty pleased with the way they are looking at only 6 weeks old, but anyone feel free to critique.

There are some that are obviously better than others.

Dan

 

[huppfarm]

Are these two chickens blue australorps?
the roo


the hen

Awesome roo! Love the darkness and the lacing....................Excellent!

 

[CinnamonQueen]

Howdy, Blackish green feet is not an Australorp breed trait.
What color is the skin under the feathers...............should be white if its an Australorp. Any other color is another breed or its mixed.
I had raised the most beautiful Blue Australorp pullet (I thought) until the legs started a greenish slate color, I then checked out the skin color and it was yellow.
Too bad, she had the best lacing I had ever seen, but would not breed her, as those traits could pop up in future birds and that is not any" Quality " to have your name be associated with.
Raise those babies up but don't breed to them if you plan on selling and calling them "Pure Breed Australorps."
Sell them as friers or egg production or process them and you cant go wrong.

Good luck
Chet

Ok, I'll check tomorrow. I am certainly not a breeder, so if she's not purebred, its not that bad... just wanted to see if they were good layers and friendly!

 

[huppfarm]

The 7 Hupp Farm chicks are 8 weeks old and looking nice!





I have two grey and five Black chicks and three cockerels and 4 pullets.

Cockerel 1



Cockerel 2--nicest so far?



This is the special one, a Blue Cockerel--I also have a very nice blue pullet:



They really enjoyed being outside today and I was able to add two panels to their brooder. They really needed more room....They are huge!

Your birds are looking good there Ron! Love the Blue Male, you can ship him back, I don't have a problem with that!

I was amazed that the same breeding pen would produce 7 down to 4 spikes on the males comb when I use only 5 point to 4 point males and females. All that work and still nature rules!
I have red banded 1/2 my 34 total hatch for culling with 7or more points and one male with greyish green eyes? all the breeding pens have dark brown to blackish eyes, where the heck did that come from?

 

[huppfarm]

They are 3rd generation Blue Australorp................I keep a pedigree on all my birds as normal routine. I have had several very light Blues in all my hatches and then I get some that molt and produce a darker plumage and lacing. Nature dictates and decides, not humans..............no matter how much we think we know.

 

[huppfarm]

9 of the Gilbert 20. They are now 6 weeks old.

At what age do most of you start sorting for culling? I know they have a lot of maturing to do yet but I am starting to get my favorites.

Dan

Those birds look super happy in that nice green grass!

 

[huppfarm]

Forgive my noobishness, but what does DQ stand for?

Disqualification is the term used in the "Standard of Perfection" referring to any trait or characteristic not accepted by the American Poultry Association that would not be of the specific breed being addressed. Every Breed has to fall under the guidelines of specified Colors of plumage, eyes, legs/feet, earlobes, types of combs, clean legged, feathered legged ect. ect.
An example of D.Q. in Black Australorp would be yellow skin................not an Australorp breed trait. This would be a cross breed and not pure breed. Or a totally other breed such as Black Jersey Giants.

Hope that helped