Australorps breed Thread

[ronott1]

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Hi,

That is a Pullet. Keep the name Melanie:

• Examine the blade of the comb which is the lobe-like area at the rear of the comb. Roosters have rounded blades nearly half the length of the comb. Female Australorp chickens have combs that only cover two-thirds of the head and end in a sharp point.

Also, She does not have cackle feathers at the neck and the tail feathers are short.

Also, they often start crowing at seven weeks or so.

Looks like a great Pullet, enjoy the eggs.

Ron

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Good. She is 6 weeks old.

 

[Stephanie739]

Here is one of my three week old Australorp pullets.

 

[MadameDork]

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Hi,

That is a Pullet. Keep the name Melanie:

• Examine the blade of the comb which is the lobe-like area at the rear of the comb. Roosters have rounded blades nearly half the length of the comb. Female Australorp chickens have combs that only cover two-thirds of the head and end in a sharp point.

Also, She does not have cackle feathers at the neck and the tail feathers are short.

Also, they often start crowing at seven weeks or so.

Looks like a great Pullet, enjoy the eggs.

Ron

Seven weeks, huh? So if Greta is a boy, she should start vocalizing it soon? Mine must be mixes since at six weeks, the combs on mine are substantially smaller than willowbranchfarm's Melanie at the same age.

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Yeah my other chickens that are Ba's dont have the red comb and wattles. They have a little yellow comb and tiny wattles.

 

[MadameDork]

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OK, that makes me feel better.

Yellow is right!

 

[willowbranchfarm]

I'm still thinking that Melanie is a rooster. But we will see.

 

[Cheapchicksfarm]

Glad I found this thread Australorps are a great breed I love mine they are sweet and great layers my birds were here when I bought my farm from my father he has had this breed forever and would kill me if I ever sold them all

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I am waiting for the pullets to start laying the hens are mottling so I was hoping the young ladies would pick up the slack but no luck so far

 

[Cheapchicksfarm]

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Looks like a roo to me my BA pullets combs grow very slow and they don't have combs that big until a few months old

 

[willowbranchfarm]

It crowed LOL. It's a roo. It's new name Jet.