Reviews by ChocolateMouse

My two "golden girls" joined my flock a few months after I got into chickens. They're FANTASTIC layers of HUMUNGO brown eggs. Every day like clockwork, they lay early in the day and never have gone broody. They're very good layers. Eggcellent you might say! (HA!)

But they're also very nervous birds, a bit louder than my black australorps and nowhere near as friendly. They're not mean birds by any means, but they don't like being held. They run like the dickens and they fuss a lot when held. They squawk and try to escape constantly, making clipping wings a bear.

They're also not bad foragers but they're not great. They're very picky, but they love potatoes.

I'd suggest these birds as good layers to anyone. Just not your best snuggly backyard baby.

I've had my australorps for a few months now and I can say they're great backyard birds. They call frequently but quietly, and almost never sing an egg song. I like this because I live in a suburb. They're big sturdy birds, good foragers, and great to look at. I have to chase them around a little in their pen but they let me pick them up. They sit quietly while I handle them, and they come when called, and go away when directed to. No illnesses at all so far.
The only downsides for me were the egg size and broodieness. my chooks lay medium sized eggs, not large. Sometimes they get large, but sometimes they're quite small so medium is the best description. All three of my chooks went broody on me this year, one of them twice. We had a chicken in our broody buster constantly for two months before they stopped, and hopefully they won't brood again 'til next year and we'll stick some chicks under them. But that was a lot of broody girls that puffed up like monsters in their broody box!



All around I'm pleased with these birds, but I wish they layed the big eggs more regularly.