Australorps breed Thread

[Winisk]

I bought a couple of BA pullets a few weeks and I have to say they are a different pair than the rest of my flock of RIR and BR. Granted they are still cautious and learning the lay of the land but when I let them free range with the others they slink out and head off in a different direction. Much of the time I don't even see them. They just disappear. I thought the worst the first time this happened but I have since discovered the two of them like to hide under the shadowy low hanging boughs of a bushy spruce tree. I imagine they are very good at avoiding predators. They are always the last to return to the coop. Calm, shy and secretive.

 

[aveca]

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Yep, those are just baby feathers..some are born with full white beaks , this will also dissappear when they are months old, the beak will turn grey-black...
Some of those with white beaks and tipped body feathers will go on to have a darker green in feathers. dont really know why that is but just a casual observation.

BAs are less agressive than some breeds so they will stay to themselves, Im glad the one owner has more than one so they can stay together..black australorps have sumatra(sp) in thier background , so dissappearing into the woods is somthing all of mine do,,,at certian times of the day you would never know I owned a chicken..they just take off ..those are our non - breeding -egg laying australops..the breeding birds are kept in pens..chickens take quite a while to accept newbies into thier groups when we inttroduce new birds , mostly babys , we have them in introduction pens so they meet everybody and little by little they become all part of the family and all hang together but there is always a little bit of a pecking order..the lower birds eat last drink last ect...even when we finnally run them altogether, they still seperate into cliques, old freinds they are comfortable with..

Ive gotten suprises in the breeding pen, a group of hens that all get along in one setting, in smaller breeding pen, one hen was singled out and picked on by other 2 hens, the rooster had his hands full trying to break that up all day so we had to remove that hen so she didnt get too stressed out and injured.. too bad she was nice breeding hen..we finnaly put her back in after other 2 were removed..

 

[aveca]

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He looks like an interesting cross bed..almost a sexlink coloring ..interesting..he has wrong eye color...wrong leg color to be pure australorp..and feather color looks like somone might have worked on improving egg laying in cornish or meat quality on australorp..interesting ..

 

[salvationfarms]

ordered some on yesterday want be here till July, I am just getting started with chickens and after much research I narrowed it down to 3 breeds Australorps, and I picked up my New Hampshire Reds , and Rhode Island Reds today ...........

most of the people I talked to here said they had own Australorps prior but didn't like them is there something I missed in my research? They never gave me a why.

 

[aveca]

Not really sure why they didnt like them..there are so many wonderful breeds to choose from, somepeople are bantam lovers some people cant stand bantams..I guess its just preference..My husband couldnt stand the sebright bantams I had..he prefered the quieter australorps who tried to get in the car with him..we took the sebright hens down to my moms barn and they love it down there and everybody loves them, they are little lawn ornaments....husband hated any bantam rooster. talk too much he said..and all have napoleon complex.. I presonnaly like the little loud bantams..saw a pair of blue bantams and wanted to get some ..husband said...Lynne....NO!

 

[happyhensny]

Our big boy, Shadow, basking in the sun. He is so gentle and sweet and his gaggle of girls lay some HUGE and plentiful eggs.

 

[happyhensny]

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I have a blue bantam Cochin pair for sale.

That is "Little Boy Blue" his mate is currently brooding 3 chicks she just hatched last week.

 

[tadyergey]

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He looks like an interesting cross bed..almost a sexlink coloring ..interesting..he has wrong eye color...wrong leg color to be pure australorp..and feather color looks like somone might have worked on improving egg laying in cornish or meat quality on australorp..interesting ..

Aveca -

It is almost like he is 2 different birds... the back half is BA, black with the gorgeous green tint, then there is the front... He is the submissive of the 2 roos, I sure hope as the hormones kick in they can get along. Really would like to keep him.

 

[reereechickens]

Hi! I just picked up my BA chicks tonight!

What a bunch of cuties! I got 5 and I think they are a week old and 5 blue egg layers. I will get some pics and post hopefully tomorrow.

 

[reereechickens]

Hi! Here are some pics of my chicks that I got Mon. My BA's are mixed in with some Blue Ameraucana's.