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Cant wait to see your pics!
Boy we would LOVE to get some of your Australorps over here.. Lots of these breeds fell out of favor over here in favor of the production breeds like RIRs so the breeds like this fell by the way-side, and now we are trying hard to catch up to you..
I think we need to put some high quality black buff orps back into the breed and we are working on it...here a long time ago they added leghorn and streached them out a bit and better disease resistance but it changed the look...so we who love the breed are trying to get back to a program like australias. I think there are some fantastic birds from the official austrsalian site national champs .
This has been the biggest complaint , we cant find birds like yours so we are trying like mad to get to that level...wish you could send us some hatching eggs, I know that would be on a wing and a prayer but we can wish cant we?
The big tails are a real problem, again I think its a throw back to the leghorn that was added long time ago and hard to get rid of, but I do think adding great black orps we could correct a lot of it and that streached out look. I try also to stay with the round dark eye.
ans away from the light colored smaller eye, its tough to say the least. lots of things to fix...
Hey any suggestions you have I would love to hear to deal with this.. a long time ago shipping birds wasnt a big deal, now its like a big root canal to even think about it. The whitneys from bath NY have the east coast champoins and they have the 2 schools of thought the larger buff types and the modern leghorn type and they are working them together but even they are struggleing..I have some coming from oaklahoma that are supposedly more typey. pastor romig from Pa. is picking them up for me...he said this was a lone breeder family that worked on them throughout the time they and others that fell out of favor..so We will see. they should be back today sometime.
Cant wait to see your pics!
Boy we would LOVE to get some of your Australorps over here.. Lots of these breeds fell out of favor over here in favor of the production breeds like RIRs so the breeds like this fell by the way-side, and now we are trying hard to catch up to you..
I think we need to put some high quality black buff orps back into the breed and we are working on it...here a long time ago they added leghorn and streached them out a bit and better disease resistance but it changed the look...so we who love the breed are trying to get back to a program like australias. I think there are some fantastic birds from the official austrsalian site national champs .
This has been the biggest complaint , we cant find birds like yours so we are trying like mad to get to that level...wish you could send us some hatching eggs, I know that would be on a wing and a prayer but we can wish cant we?
The big tails are a real problem, again I think its a throw back to the leghorn that was added long time ago and hard to get rid of, but I do think adding great black orps we could correct a lot of it and that streached out look. I try also to stay with the round dark eye.
ans away from the light colored smaller eye, its tough to say the least. lots of things to fix...
Hey any suggestions you have I would love to hear to deal with this.. a long time ago shipping birds wasnt a big deal, now its like a big root canal to even think about it. The whitneys from bath NY have the east coast champoins and they have the 2 schools of thought the larger buff types and the modern leghorn type and they are working them together but even they are struggleing..I have some coming from oaklahoma that are supposedly more typey. pastor romig from Pa. is picking them up for me...he said this was a lone breeder family that worked on them throughout the time they and others that fell out of favor..so We will see. they should be back today sometime.
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