Australorps breed Thread

[valiantlo]

Thank you for compliments.Today in Serbia is much better.There are no rain and the water retreats.Thanks again

 

[ronott1]

Thank you for compliments.Today in Serbia is much better.There are no rain and the water retreats.Thanks again

That is great news about the water receding!

 

[valiantlo]

Your BAs are BEAUTIFUL!! Mine are going on 8 weeks old and such a pleasure to just sit out there with them and watch their antics. They are a joy for me...they are so docile and will come up to me and let me pet them (somewhat!)...

Thank you.My hens are very quiet too and docile.I am very satisfied with them

 

[valiantlo]

That is great news about the water receding!

Yes, you in right.Last week was a disaster, but many countries sent help and it is much better when you know you have friends

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

Valiantlo,
They are some fine looking blue Australorps! Are they common in Serbia? They are very rare in the US especially good quality ones like yours. I am in my second year of about the 5th or 6st generations of a blue Australorp project. I call them the Rattlesnake Ridge Line. I am very happy with my results so far.
Kurt

 

[getaclue]

Ron, Awesome!

Sorry, meant to say valiantlo...they are gorgeous.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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They are Beautiful & very Healthy looking

 

[valiantlo]

Valiantlo,
They are some fine looking blue Australorps! Are they common in Serbia? They are very rare in the US especially good quality ones like yours. I am in my second year of about the 5th or 6st generations of a blue Australorp project. I call them the Rattlesnake Ridge Line. I am very happy with my results so far.
Kurt

Thanks for compliments.Yes there are many quality poultry in Serbia.I am breeding Buff Orpingtons, Bielefelders, Sussex White and Speckled Sussex and Japanese Quails too.

 

[valiantlo]

Ron, Awesome!

Sorry, meant to say valiantlo...they are gorgeous.

thank you very much

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

These are wonderful birds but seem a bit lazy as far as free ranging. They are the first ones of my five breeds (Red Star, Orpington, Jersey Giant, Langshans, Black Australorps) that seem to go cannibal on some of the eggs if I cut out feed layer pellets for a couple of days and rely on free ranging to make them work for their food. There is plenty to free range this time of year lots of grasshoppers and bugs and grasses and weeds of all sorts acres and acres of it but they are just lazy birds.

Anyone else struggle with this in their BA's?

My BA's are my BEST foragers. Complaining every morning when I go to the coop to let them out. They tell me I'm too slow

. They always have feed, but it lasts a few days because they prefer the " mother nature food " My egg production has not dropped at all. Now my mixed flock are a bunch of lazy bums !! They prefer to stand by the feeder and complain rather than go look for something to eat.