australorp

I have 7 Australorp hens, 4 EE hens, 6 Partridge Rock hens, 2 EE cockerels and 3 Autralorp/EE crosses that I keep in one coop. Tonight when shutting them in I noticed one Australorp hen had a pale comb (which I take as a sign of sickness) so I checked her out and sure enough she had some yellow...

I'm looking for a Quiet Chicken breed to keep and not annoy my neighbors. What I'm looking for(Hen edition): -Quiet -Good Layer -Good Meat -Good Forager -Friendly -Cute -Your Favorite

Hi fellow chicken-lovers! My name is Amy and I am a new member of the flock... finally! After reading more threads than I could count on this site for the past year I have finally JOINED your group! Here are the answers to the suggested questions: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did...

Hello, not sure if this is the right place to post this. I don't know all the right colouring terms or whatnot, but I bred my primarily red EE rooster to three different black Australorps and got 2 identical grey (or blue might be the right term) chicks and 1 black chick. The 2 greys are both...

Hello Everyone, I'm just after some advice for my new chickens. I've hatched only two batches of chicks, one about 8 weeks ago and another as of today. My first hatch gave me 8/12 chicks, two of which had a wonky leg. One chick unfortunately had to be put down as one of his legs pretty much...

Hello! I got my second first egg today, so fun! I only have two hens so it's easy to tell. The egg on the top is the first egg from my australorp today and the egg on the bottom is from my BR who has been laying for 3 weeks. The australorp egg has a purplish brown color with a heavy white...

This is Bandit, I'm pretty sure he's a cockerell but I have a barred rock that I'm 100% positive is a cockerell, so I'm holding out hope that Bandit is actually a pullet, can anyone confirm or deny if this is a valid hope?

It's been several years since we owned chickens, and now we're back at it!! We're just putting the finishing touches on our coop and 20' run. We have 6 girls... if we're lucky. We ordered day-old pullets from Meyer Hatchery and had 100% success last time around, but we're wondering if we have...

I would like to get a chicken harness for one of my chickens, Calla, but I'm looking for advice, what I'd like to do is put it on her and leave it on her so that I could tell her apart from the rest of the flock easier, she's an australorp so there isn't much variation physically between her and...

I am brand new to the chicken world. I received two White Sussex for Mothers' Day and they have captured my heart. They wandered everywhere together. Unfortunately, while someone was taking care of them while I was away for 2 days, they flew the coop. After three days, only one returned. My...

Hello all! I am extremely proud to say that I have successfully hatched out 8 of 12 eggs in my first attempt at incubating chicken eggs! Postal eggs and all! I had assumed that the hardest part was over but after losing one of my darlings to what I suspect was a slipped tendon; I am now faced...

Began my flock in Spring of 2014. Started with Australorps and Buff Orps. Am down to one Australorp and two Buffs. Bought five Black Sex Links in Spring of 2017. They are now mature enough to free range with the older girls. Looking forward to high egg production from the BSL's.

This looks like the perfect place for me to learn as much as I can about chickens! We had chickens when I was a kid, but that's been a 'few' years now. My husband and I are buying his parents house and 37 acres, so we're ECSTATIC to finally be able to start growing our hobby farm! First I comes...

Hello! Myself, my wife and our three children started a small homestead in the sequoia national forest in California 4 years ago and recently started our own flock of chickens, it has been amazing so far! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes we are very new, we...

Free egg laying chickens available. Each mature hen currently laying up to 6 eggs a week. We are moving, so need to find them new homes. Breeds we have are: Leghorns, Isa Browns, Ameraucanas, Australorps, Salmon Favorelles, Lakenvelders. We have about 50 birds, but you can take as many as you...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had flocks in the 1970's-90's. Usually had from 25-200 at any given time. I had a rural horse boarding and training farm in the Brazos valley near Bryan-College Station on about 50 acres with two ponds. Kept several coops with...