They're blue, but with yellow bottoms on their feet, they are something other than Australorps. Jersey Giants...? They have the slate colored legs. One is a medium grey, the other a lighter grey.
Well, I do believe that they will live underground in abandoned rodent burrows which may give them the inside edge on survival over the winter months here.
WD40 with the straw and a lighter.
Same as the Black Australorps I've gotten from Meyer.ROAD TRIP!!! It is only 650 miles as the chicken flies.
Well at least you have that, my "BAs" have black legs.
Yes indeed they do. I've seen them using mousey highways to get from one place to another. I wonder if they also feed on the dead mice down in the burrow. Ramik is a favorite of the mice around here, so they take it into the burrow and eat, then die. Yellow jackets love meat, so I wonder if it affects them too. One yellow jacket nest that was under the dirt pile (someone brought in a load of dirt at some point and dumped it near the burn pile) suddenly disappeared after I started putting out Ramik for the mice. Just a thought.
I got a couple of Astrolorps from a local breeder here. One turned out to be blue, but failed to thrive. People just keep breeding the same stock year after year, without bringing in 'fresh blood' and the chickens get progressively weaker by generation. Inbreeding multiplies faults while line breeding adds to good traits if done properly.
Blow torch wd-40 more fun though.
Yeah suppose to mean JG
