Australorps breed Thread

[orumpoultry]

We have a pip, we have a pip, we have a pip, we have a pip, YAY

Seems like everyone but me! LOL good luck

 

[jbkirk]

we have another pip, we have another pip, we have another pip, we have another pip... I should probably quit now

 

[orumpoultry]

This would be so much more exciting if you were posting pictures.

 

[DesertChic]

The chicks need to stay in long enough to fluff up. Unless you are drying them off with a blow dryer?

Otherwise they can get too cold as the moisture dries--Gives them pasty butt or sometimes kill them.

None of my chicks have ever "fluffed up" in the incubator. Even the ones that hatched in the middle of the night that we didn't retrieve until hours later never "fluffed", but instead grew crusty in there. They fluff up once I put them in the brooder and they could move around under the warmth of the lamp and atop the softness of the bedding...and so far in my two hatches I've never lost a chick and have never suffered any pasty butt. Even my two rescue chicks did just fine in the brooder after I chipped them out of their shells, so I'm not going to worry.

 

[DesertChic]

Speaking of Bielefelders....if I had them first I may have never had as many breeds chicken breed. I will be finding more hatching eggs, just for a few Bielefelders. I seriously would sell Everything except My Black birds and Sulmtalers for them.

They are pretty awesome, aren't they? Mine are in their second week since hatching and I'm totally charmed by them. They're incredibly quiet compared to the other breeds I've raised, and so very sweet! I think they'll be a perfect compliment to my NNs...though I'm still thinking I may try an Australorp/BR cross hatching.

 

[DesertChic]

we have another pip, we have another pip, we have another pip, we have another pip... I should probably quit now

LOL! I can totally relate!

 

[ronott1]

None of my chicks have ever "fluffed up" in the incubator. Even the ones that hatched in the middle of the night that we didn't retrieve until hours later never "fluffed", but instead grew crusty in there. They fluff up once I put them in the brooder and they could move around under the warmth of the lamp and atop the softness of the bedding...and so far in my two hatches I've never lost a chick and have never suffered any pasty butt. Even my two rescue chicks did just fine in the brooder after I chipped them out of their shells, so I'm not going to worry.

Let me know if you want tips on hatching.

 

[DesertChic]

Let me know if you want tips on hatching.

Thanks! Will do!

 

[DesertChic]

Let me know if you want tips on hatching.

That pdf is fascinating! I bought a dozen eggs from a semi-local Bielefelder breeder and only 3 out of 14 eggs actually developed and hatched, and most of them had to be discarded after the first candling at 7 days of incubation. When I checked the eggs I'd pulled out, nearly half of them showed zero signs of fertility and the rest of them showed nothing more than the white disc. Now, at least, I have an idea of what may have gone wrong...since she keeps insisting that her eggs are "perfect". (NOTE: I hatched eggs from another out-of-state breeder at the same time at a rate of over 80% and had a 100% hatch rate after lockdown.)

 

[ThatFarmerChick]

They are pretty awesome, aren't they? Mine are in their second week since hatching and I'm totally charmed by them. They're incredibly quiet compared to the other breeds I've raised, and so very sweet! I think they'll be a perfect compliment to my NNs...though I'm still thinking I may try an Australorp/BR cross hatching. 

My husband will not allow Turkens. Bielefelders are super sweet. My hubby loves

the look of the Australorp x Rhode Island Red. I am going to try it a Partridge Rock cross, and a Marans cross.You will have to let me see you BR x. I do not have any Barred Rocks.