Australorps breed Thread

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: isnt there something about letting shipped eggs set for a few hours ( 24 ? ) before incubating ?

 

[ronott1]

isnt there something about letting shipped eggs set for a few hours ( 24 ? ) before incubating ?

Resting is a toss up between age and the benefits of resting. The important thing it to make sure the eggs are at room temperature. If you know that the eggs are fresh(shipped eggs should not be over 5 days old) then rest them big end up in an egg carton for 24 hours.

Lots of great tips here and a section on shipped eggs. Some of the things you do for shipped eggs are different from non shipped eggs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

 

[informative]

Pita Pinta!
Bresse fit the bill but the cockerels can be mean.
You can eat the Australorps just fine. They will not have as much meat but they will be very tasty.

Actually the better free rangers are the red breeds they appear to be very good at surviving free range predators - very wary unlike say buff orpingtons. The downside is that the wary free range types tend to not be very broody so you can't really have both but technically all chickens will go broody under the right conditions.

Good red dual purpose free rangers could be the New Hampshires IMO. Not amazing at gathering their own food but if you start them early and make them work for some of their food like one small feeding in the morning to kick them off and give them energy to hunt and then let them get hungry finding bugs all day they should be just what you described

 

[appps]

Resting is a toss up between age and the benefits of resting. The important thing it to make sure the eggs are at room temperature. If you know that the eggs are fresh(shipped eggs should not be over 5 days old) then rest them big end up in an egg carton for 24 hours.

Lots of great tips here and a section on shipped eggs. Some of the things you do for shipped eggs are different from non shipped eggs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

These were shipped Tuesday and have arrived Friday so at least 4 days old if laid the day they were packed. I'm using a broody so thinking if I put them in there tonight round 9pm they will have spent 12 hours resting which I've seen on some sites and won't be another full day older before I get them under her.

 

[ronott1]

These were shipped Tuesday and have arrived Friday so at least 4 days old if laid the day they were packed. I'm using a broody so thinking if I put them in there tonight round 9pm they will have spent 12 hours resting which I've seen on some sites and won't be another full day older before I get them under her.

Perfect!

Broodies do a great job hatching shipped eggs.

Keep updating us on the the broody hatch!

 

[adam73]

babies are getting bigger...have moved to one of my outside coops

 

[chickisoup]

Just got my first honest to goodness, in the nestbox , pullet egg from my cackle Hatchery girls!!!! Right at the 5 month mark! Good girls

 

[lightchick]

Just got my first honest to goodness, in the nestbox , pullet egg from my cackle Hatchery girls!!!! Right at the 5 month mark! Good girls

Awesome!

 

[lightchick]

I was wondering if it's possible that my Australorp laid these eggs? These are my first two eggs. One from today and one from yesterday.
I'm thinking that she's too young and her comb is too small. What colored eggs do your Australorps lay?

The bigger one is from today. Ignore the white egg...it's not from my chickens.
I think the layer is probably my Brown sex link because her comb looks a little paler then before and I think her vent looks bigger and her pelvic bones feel the widest of all my chickens. The only other chicken that could have laid the eggs is my Black sex link and Australorp. I want to know if I can totally cross off my Australorp off the list?
They are 20 weeks and a couple days.
My Brown sex link

Australorp

Black sex link

 

[Gramma Chick]

I was wondering if it's possible that my Australorp laid these eggs? These are my first two eggs. One from today and one from yesterday.
I'm thinking that she's too young and her comb is too small. What colored eggs do your Australorps lay?
I think it is the black Sex link her comb is real dark ....then the brown sex link ...aussies comb is too pale still
Black sex link