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Yep, those are just baby feathers..some are born with full white beaks , this will also dissappear when they are months old, the beak will turn grey-black...
Some of those with white beaks and tipped body feathers will go on to have a darker green in feathers. dont really know why that is but just a casual observation.
BAs are less agressive than some breeds so they will stay to themselves, Im glad the one owner has more than one so they can stay together..black australorps have sumatra(sp) in thier background , so dissappearing into the woods is somthing all of mine do,,,at certian times of the day you would never know I owned a chicken..they just take off ..those are our non - breeding -egg laying australops..the breeding birds are kept in pens..chickens take quite a while to accept newbies into thier groups when we inttroduce new birds , mostly babys , we have them in introduction pens so they meet everybody and little by little they become all part of the family and all hang together but there is always a little bit of a pecking order..the lower birds eat last drink last ect...even when we finnally run them altogether, they still seperate into cliques, old freinds they are comfortable with..
Ive gotten suprises in the breeding pen, a group of hens that all get along in one setting, in smaller breeding pen, one hen was singled out and picked on by other 2 hens, the rooster had his hands full trying to break that up all day so we had to remove that hen so she didnt get too stressed out and injured.. too bad she was nice breeding hen..we finnaly put her back in after other 2 were removed..
