Austrowhites

[Queen of the chickens]

Has anyone raised the Austro-white chicken? How was the egg production? How big were the eggs? How did they fair in winter? I am thinking of getting an Austrolorp Cock to put in with my Austrolorp Hens and White Leghorns and would appreciate any input.

 

[pastorwalt]

Its been almost 50 years ago but I had austraXwhites as a kid
and sold the eggs to the local grocery store
they out laid my white rocks, ate less,
mostly large, always white, eggs
a few set, (maybe two out of fifty) but were lousy mothers
good foragers, calmer than leghorns
stood the cold pretty well - roosters lost their combs
there was no heat in the henhouse other than a light above the roost
it got down to 20 below a couple of times
walt

 

[draye]

Quote:
Austra Whites= Black Australorp rooster over White Leghorn hens. Excellant layers (about as well as a sexlink). Usually white chickens with a few black spots (kind of like the California Whites). Usually a little bigger chicken than the California White not as big as the Australorp though. Cackle Hatchery is now selling these. Usually lay white or creamish colored eggs.

That should work well for you, you casn tell the Leghorn eggs from the Australorp eggs.

 

[tadkerson]

As Walt said, this was a popular hybrid used in commercial egg production.

Tim

 

[Queen of the chickens]

Thanks for the information. I think I will give this a try