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Cubakid, do have some more good aussies offspring for us to see? would love to see some of your flock..Chet Berta and I are always on the lookout..i shopped some fall sale up at the big fall poultry show, they must have had over 50 aussies for sale...attracts a lot of breeders from around the northeast , so a good place to talk to people and lot of aussie breeders from VT, mass, maryland, ohio ect....I went right down the line in the sale barn , some were OK.they had them all in pairs until right about the middle I stopped dead in my tracks and said ...WOW!!....Bob Whitney had sold a pair, I got my rooster from him..they were big enough they had to go in thier own cages not paired and show stopping curves. Bobs Hen was grand champion english in a huge class. he also won at least 4 other big shows from maryland to ohio with that aussie hen....what a fantastic pullet, sadly they had a great big SOLD sign on them.. I did score 2 very good pullets this year..so keep your fingers crossed for next year..I had junk hens last year and it really showed up in the offspring...bluk!.im feeling a lot better about next years results..just trying to keep them all safe right now..we have every predator imaginable from racoons to hawks to coyotes out there and they get very determined ..spring is the worst when they are denning. so far there have been no breechs all summer so i think we ironed out the kinks..
My offspring did not turn out all that great this year. there is a pullet or two that ill be watching... but my australorp fertility is terrible. In the past 5 years i hatched about three. this year i hatched 10 out of my trio of A black cock a black hen and a white hen. then i recived about 10 from a local group from the same lines.
