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interesting bird, you have such nice looking birds anyway.. That Doug acres was pretty fearless at adding those german new hampshires to dels ..all I can say is outstanding results..it is a tightrope to walk thou, sometimes you can get traits you dont want , some real bad things can crop up..at some point , somone had to add something to create white orps and some of the colors they get now..funny US is still behind is just about everything..every country has a class for them we just add AOV at the end for any other variety.. sometimes you hit the jackpot..some people are very good at it..we were talking about blk orps and aussies. the judges are pretty savy..they are shooting down people trying to show orps as aussies..use them to improvesomething then get out and back to your plan..My husband told me we will keep 2 breeds and no more..blk orps are my choice, aussies are his..I am just in love with the new Orps I have, god they are wonderful to work with and around..aussies are just a tad more squirrly but not as bad some breeds..We see people out there that show up at these shows with every breed known to mankind, we dont want to play that game but specialize in a couple...Lots of great breeders keep several breeds around to play with , but some of these guys get every bird under the sun and show up in a tractor trailer, they often have lots of broke feathers that wernt tended to ect.... I have waited a long time to have these, unfortunatly I got all boys this time but thats just the nature of it..big strapping boys..Husband said pick 3 ..NYS inspector is taking 2 next spring might take them early fall..Im showing 1 husband just might show the other , hard to choose between the 2 both working into great bloom right now and shows are 2 months away..the others might shape up and show better as adults..
I had a tottally unplanned project so have to get a new home for the litle ones..Every day I clean out all of the eggs from our other barn..they belong to my mom..my husband monster egg layer australorps are there also so lots of eggs , I have 2 pet sebrights down there.....well my dad died, so everything got thrown to the backburner during that 2 months, I had a broody sebright out there, swept the eggs out but left her alone just because didnt have any time in a day...well last week I hear a peeper or 2 darn it she hatched 3 of her own eggs, ....Seriously I never in a million years thought that was even possible..giant sized australorp + sebright.. moved her to the new mommy pen quickly and baby drinker feed ect.. they will be going to whoever wants them, I will put an add in buy swap sell for them..what on earth should I call them, ? austrabrights? sealorps?