Australorps breed Thread

[cubakid]

Im the farthest to the right... this is before my haircut. Im no judge, but i like the Cock other than his tail angle is too high for my likeing, but that is my opinion. they should have a nice curve with, as little jaggedness as possible. More of a sweep.

 

[aveca]

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yes thought i was the only one ha!

this guy crows probably once a day. no one knew we had a rooster because hes so quiet..and the girls all sound like a flock of geese. he has much better girlfreinds for next year and they sound even more like geese than the old ones, its much more pronounced.
a good freind of ours thought we had baby blk heritage turkeys after we received the baby blk orps they were so big, so it was sort of a strange summer flock of turkeys and flock of geese honking in australorp and orp disguise.

i guess they looked a little like a turkey , they just look like chickens to me..fat ones. our other neighbor asked when did you get those heritage turkeys? I said turkeys? we dont have any turkeys, he told us stteve told him we bought turkeys and lynnes chickens honk like geese hee hee

 

[aveca]

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Cubakid, do have some more good aussies offspring for us to see? would love to see some of your flock..Chet Berta and I are always on the lookout..i shopped some fall sale up at the big fall poultry show, they must have had over 50 aussies for sale...attracts a lot of breeders from around the northeast , so a good place to talk to people and lot of aussie breeders from VT, mass, maryland, ohio ect....I went right down the line in the sale barn , some were OK.they had them all in pairs until right about the middle I stopped dead in my tracks and said ...WOW!!....Bob Whitney had sold a pair, I got my rooster from him..they were big enough they had to go in thier own cages not paired and show stopping curves. Bobs Hen was grand champion english in a huge class. he also won at least 4 other big shows from maryland to ohio with that aussie hen....what a fantastic pullet, sadly they had a great big SOLD sign on them.. I did score 2 very good pullets this year..so keep your fingers crossed for next year..I had junk hens last year and it really showed up in the offspring...bluk!.im feeling a lot better about next years results..just trying to keep them all safe right now..we have every predator imaginable from racoons to hawks to coyotes out there and they get very determined ..spring is the worst when they are denning. so far there have been no breechs all summer so i think we ironed out the kinks..

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

I am officially a black australorp owner! I inherited 3 of beauties yesterday & I LOVE THEM!!!

Their names are Minerva (Roman goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industries and trades), Juno(Roman Queen of the Gods and goddess of matrimony), & Pax, (Roman goddess of peace).

Here are Minerva & Juno:

Pax:

 

[cubalaya]

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i agree but he is good sized and very docile and i just gave him 2 new hens today. hopefully the chicks next year will have better tails.

 

[RustyHen]

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i agree but he is good sized and very docile and i just gave him 2 new hens today. hopefully the chicks next year will have better tails.

Does anyone on here know of a breeder of Australorps in Washington state?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Black Jack wanted to have his picture taken today

 

[Inkheart]

I am a proud member of the Black Jack fan club! - Love that rooster!!!

 

[BayouPoules]

DD and I just wanted to give a shout out to " aveca"

Congrats aveca!

She and DH had a big day at the Twin Tiers Poultry Show

1st and reserve of variety...
1st, best of breed best of variety, and
reserve champion English ..plus an award for best Orpington at the show
Wow!




And thanks to both of you for having been so much help and given so much encouragement to DD, Olivia, as she works with her Australorps,..
ya'll have such a great attitude about helping out the youth and getting them started,..
yvette

 

[Inkheart]

Congrats Aveca! That is great! Would love to see some photos!?