Australorps breed Thread

[Rachel'sFlock]

I just saw the thumbs up on the kelp, so thought I would add more. Mine won't eat it straight, so I mix it in with their feed--1/3 of a cup into 6 ish pounds of feed or Chicken Wheat. The Kelp has a lot of really good things in it.

I looked up your town and it is close to one of my favorite places--Florence Oregon. My wife is a teacher and we went there for a week long work shop in the mid 1980s. The last time I was there they had built an Indian Casino, but I still love that Town.

Ron

We love Florence as well! It is such a charming town (even with the casino).
Give us a hollar if you two decide to come to the coast! Would love to meet a fellow BYCer in person sometime!
Thanks for the additional tips on the kelp. I always mix anything I give them in with the feed- oyster shells, cayenne and now the kelp. Great idea!!!!

 

[laura625]

Cayenne?

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Cayenne?

I often give cayenne pepper powder in the winter to increase circulation, up egg production and help fight internal parasites and disease. It is an old folk tip I have heard repeatedly, and have used, myself. Keeps everybody plucky and well all winter long.

 

[ronott1]

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Thank You!

Cayenne is good for us. I used it to get rid of acid reflux. It kills the bacteria in the stomach that causes Ulcers and thus Acid Reflux. You have to be careful though. It can burn quite a bit so you have to build up the dosage and take it for about a month.

I did this 15 years ago and I am still good for it.

Ron

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Thank You!

Cayenne is good for us. I used it to get rid of acid reflux. It kills the bacteria in the stomach that causes Ulcers and thus Acid Reflux. You have to be careful though. It can burn quite a bit so you have to build up the dosage and take it for about a month.

I did this 15 years ago and I am still good for it.

Ron

I make a lot of chili in the winter to give the humans on the farm a good dose of it, as well as giving it to the chooks.
It does the same things for us as it does for them (minus the egg-laying, hahaha).
I was not aware it could help with acid reflux, however, so thanks for that tip.
You are just a fount of useful information, Ron!

 

[groche]

Hi folks,
just thought I'd share this with the breeders. I found it interesting as I'd always thought that purple sheen in Aussies is a genetic thing. I'd been advised that you shouldn't, for example, use hens with high sheen for breeding but rather choose duller, but not purple, sheened ones. Apparently, breeding two highly green sheened birds together buggers up the sheen on the progeny, tending to create purple. Doesn't make 'Geoff-sense', but I've only a tenuous hold on chook genetics - can't quite get my head around those extra chromosomes compared with us, I guess! Anyway, any comments on the last bit of this? Dubbo Poultry Club Newsletter Oct. 2006, Managing overcrowding in growing chickens - " Stronger birds may monopolise feed and water. The resultant check in growth of those missing out may stunt development as well as being evident in plumage quality and color. In black fowls this may manifest itself in an undesreable purple lustre."
Cheers Geoff from Aus

 

[aveca]

that is true geoff, long time ago we gleened that out of one of ray connors aprentice..he said too much green in breeding shed causes purpleing..use hens with dark base little green.

 

[laura625]

But,um, purple sheen sounds kinda pretty..

 

[ronott1]

But,um, purple sheen sounds kinda pretty..

Yes, there a a lot of colors and things that look neat, but are bad for show quality.

I think purple is neat too. I would not be able to breed for that though.

One problem is if we breed too far away from a Standard, they won't be the same breed anymore. It would be better to look for a breed with a purple sheen.

On the EE thread I posted a picture of my SG Dorking Pullet. They are supposed to have white legs. Ameraucana(a lot on the EE thread have thos) are supposed to have slate to greenish legs. One person thought the Dorking was bad because of the white legs. He thought it was just wrong looking. If the Dorking had legs like an Ameraucana, it would be bad for showing in competition and you would not breed it.

Just some random thoughts...

Ron

 

[BlackPanther]

Rachel's Flock:
Proximity to a mixed-breed flock with a seperate owner.
(she seems to think a black rooster will jump all her hens and one of a different color won't.

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