Australorps breed Thread

[Birdrain92]

@Birdrain92 .............That cockerel is going to need some of those little blue pills if he's to satisfy all those ladies. Better have another young cockerel waiting in the wings because #1 is liable to fail to exhaustion.

EDIT: All contingent on the prospect that you plan to raise chicks...

I don't need all my hens being bred. I will incubate eggs though but to replace older hens and for broilers since Black Australorps get big! Right now though since the cockerel is only 4 months and the pullets are 6 months he's hen pecked.

 

[Gramma Chick]

@Birdrain92 .............That cockerel is going to need some of those little blue pills if he's to satisfy all those ladies. Better have another young cockerel waiting in the wings because #1 is liable to fail to exhaustion.

EDIT: All contingent on the prospect that you plan to raise chicks...

Shouldnt have to worry about bare backed hens though

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Yes the hens rule the roost for now ...

 

[orumpoultry]

Grammar, is the direction of the picture. He had just finished crowing and was all puffed up. He is NOT slim. He's quite a hefty boy. He's also not tall. Picture deception.

I'll have to get a better picture today to show. This was a snap it now before he realizes he's standing right next to me picture from my phone.

 

[Birdrain92]

Shouldnt have to worry about bare backed hens though

That's true and that means that my hens egg production shouldn't lower from over breeding.

 

[hellbender]

That's true and that means that my hens egg production shouldn't lower from over breeding.

Of course you can always select the better hens to breed and house them with the cockerel, if you decide to breed.

Just for my 10 Chantecler pullets I have 3 very nice cockerels...one never knows what can happen and it's better to have too many than none. I have begun to keep the cockerels housed away from the pullets since they have started laying in earnest.

 

[Birdrain92]

Of course you can always select the better hens to breed and house them with the cockerel, if you decide to breed.

Just for my 10 Chantecler pullets I have 3 very nice cockerels...one never knows what can happen and it's better to have too many than none. I have begun to keep the cockerels housed away from the pullets since they have started laying in earnest.

That's the plan. I'm already getting a plan together to decide which pullets I want to breed.

 

[hellbender]

That's the plan. I'm already getting a plan together to decide which pullets I want to breed.

 

[Birdrain92]

I just remembered I never posted a picture of my cockerel. Here he is.

 

[orumpoultry]

Love your birds!

Here's my "youngster" Spencer again. Top view. I have better pictures on my camera I need to upload. He's about eight months now and finally filling his frame.

Edit: his tail isn't that crooked, I had to take a fast shot while he was eating so he didn't think I was trying to catch him.