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I have Black Australorps from Lowell & Bruce Sherman in Pine Grove & so does Carrie of Subtainableyieldpoultry.com out of Arnold. I'm in Turlock in the San Joaquin valley. I sporatically hatch them out along with others chicks.
Hi SF BYCers!
Just curious, are these show quality Australorps? I bought an Urban five pack of BA's from cackle in February and I love them. I also have three "RIRs" from Ideal and two of the Red Hybrids(they are too dignified to be called sex links
. The sex links were 20 week old pullets and were amazingly good at picking up the coop and egg laying routine. The Australorps are now 12 weeks old and have been in the big coop for two weeks. They have finally figured out the roosts but have not figured out how to go home at night. They cram themselves under the nest box of the little coop where the Red Star chickens are. Yesterday I tried herding them to the coop after getting them out from under the nest box. Tomorrow I am finishing the run on the big coop and will try leaving them in there for several days to see if they pick up the going home routine.
The RIR's are six weeks old and are very different from the BA's. Last night they were very noisy and since they had fresh food and water I figured it was time to freshen up the brooder. I put them outside and cleaned the brooder. The Red Sex links were out and one was playing the dominance game and chased the RIR chicks back into the house!
Ok, to get back to the Show Quality BA's, are they like the Heritage RIR chickens, where the superior egg laying characteristic has been bread out of them? I think that is the saddest part of losing the RIR chickens to the production reds. Maybe if I went up into the hills of Tehama County(Out of Red Bluff CA) I could find some old farm family that still has the real RIR's...
Better get back to work!
Ron
Bruce Sherman is a well known West Coast SQ Black Australorp breeder. My grand daughter chose those for her 4H project so I started her with a trio of Bruce's. We drove to Pine Grove & picked them up & have been very happy with them. They are awesome. My friend at SubtainableYieldPoultry.com , Carrie has his too & she recommended them & she herself is a breeder of many SQ breeds & varieties. I have been to shows with her.
Our Australorp are kept in a breeder pen by themselves & roost up top in a covered area everynight & have an outside area for the daytime.
This is the breeding pen I keep them in. The chicks in there were misc juveniles I was growing out. When I got the Australorps that pen became their's. I built it fron an old Peach bin.
Karen in Turlock
I have Black Australorps from Lowell & Bruce Sherman in Pine Grove & so does Carrie of Subtainableyieldpoultry.com out of Arnold. I'm in Turlock in the San Joaquin valley. I sporatically hatch them out along with others chicks.
Hi SF BYCers!
Just curious, are these show quality Australorps? I bought an Urban five pack of BA's from cackle in February and I love them. I also have three "RIRs" from Ideal and two of the Red Hybrids(they are too dignified to be called sex links
The RIR's are six weeks old and are very different from the BA's. Last night they were very noisy and since they had fresh food and water I figured it was time to freshen up the brooder. I put them outside and cleaned the brooder. The Red Sex links were out and one was playing the dominance game and chased the RIR chicks back into the house!
Ok, to get back to the Show Quality BA's, are they like the Heritage RIR chickens, where the superior egg laying characteristic has been bread out of them? I think that is the saddest part of losing the RIR chickens to the production reds. Maybe if I went up into the hills of Tehama County(Out of Red Bluff CA) I could find some old farm family that still has the real RIR's...
Better get back to work!
Ron
Bruce Sherman is a well known West Coast SQ Black Australorp breeder. My grand daughter chose those for her 4H project so I started her with a trio of Bruce's. We drove to Pine Grove & picked them up & have been very happy with them. They are awesome. My friend at SubtainableYieldPoultry.com , Carrie has his too & she recommended them & she herself is a breeder of many SQ breeds & varieties. I have been to shows with her.
Our Australorp are kept in a breeder pen by themselves & roost up top in a covered area everynight & have an outside area for the daytime.
This is the breeding pen I keep them in. The chicks in there were misc juveniles I was growing out. When I got the Australorps that pen became their's. I built it fron an old Peach bin.
Karen in Turlock
