Australorps breed Thread

[WKYChick]

I am so glad to have australorps! My DH picked them up along with buff orps and speckled sussex

this is Raven

this is Crow

I just love their personalities, they are so sweet, would love to add more to the flock later

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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They're so pretty! I have 9 Aussies I hatched out. They're in a pen with my adult Buff Orpingtons and my one EE hen Julia. I know for almost all are roosters, but I'm hopeing for at LEAST 2-4 hens!

I'll be keeping the best 1-2 BA roosters and selling or butchering the ones that I don't keep.

~ Aspen

 

[ginbart]

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Same here. Mine have brown on them also. I'm going to take a pic and you can tell me if your's look like mine. I got my from Tractor Supply also.
Roo's, are they a mix?

Here are some of the girls. What do you all think about them?

Now I need to go back outside I'm missing a WO.

 

[ItsAZOO32]

Hey everyone!! I have a bird that came in a batch of EE eggs I bought. It hatched from a brown speckled egg. I was thinking it was a rooster but someone said they thought it was an Australorp pullet. I have no idea so I am here!

Here are some pics of her:

Around 5 weeks old

and now around 9 weeks old.

I was thinking rooster because of the bendy tail feathers and redness in the face.

Thanks for the opinions

 

[ginbart]

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I think, IMO it's a hen.

 

[ronott1]

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Hi ItsAZ0032,

The eye and leg colors are wrong--eyes should be black legs should be grey. Could be a Jersey Giant or a mix of BA and something else.

Looks like a hen to me.

Ron

 

[ItsAZOO32]

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Hi ItsAZ0032,

The eye and leg colors are wrong--eyes should be black legs should be grey. Could be a Jersey Giant or a mix of BA and something else.

Looks like a hen to me.

Ron

Thanks

Could be a mix since it came from an EE guy.. No idea. The legs are kind of a slate/grey color in patches but have a yellowness here and there as well

 

[ronott1]

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Same here. Mine have brown on them also. I'm going to take a pic and you can tell me if your's look like mine. I got my from Tractor Supply also.
Roo's, are they a mix?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0745.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0747.jpg
Here are some of the girls. What do you all think about them?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0741.jpg

Now I need to go back outside I'm missing a WO.

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Tractor store gets their chicks from hatcheries close to them. The ones here in Woodland, CA(Close to Sacramento--Northern) come form Ideal in Texas.

Your chickens look like a mix with Wyendott?

My BA's came from Cackle Hatchery. One of them has frizzle feathers on the back. The other four have regular feathers.

Do they lay eggs yet? The egg color might help figure what the mix is. I bet they will be great layers regardless of how they look. Hatchery chickens are bread more for production than for a standard.

Ron

 

[DreadElliot]

Dont think BA as it has yellow legs.

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[ginbart]

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Same here. Mine have brown on them also. I'm going to take a pic and you can tell me if your's look like mine. I got my from Tractor Supply also.
Roo's, are they a mix?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0745.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0747.jpg
Here are some of the girls. What do you all think about them?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7163_img_0741.jpg

Now I need to go back outside I'm missing a WO.

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Tractor store gets their chicks from hatcheries close to them. The ones here in Woodland, CA(Close to Sacramento--Northern) come form Ideal in Texas.

Your chickens look like a mix with Wyendott?

My BA's came from Cackle Hatchery. One of them has frizzle feathers on the back. The other four have regular feathers.

Do they lay eggs yet? The egg color might help figure what the mix is. I bet they will be great layers regardless of how they look. Hatchery chickens are bread more for production than for a standard.

Ron

Thanks, no eggs yet I think they are only about 16 weeks and from the 6 I got 4 are Roos and 2 hens, well they will be. lol DH said we are not rehoming the roo's as I like to do. I only ever keep one of them.