Greetings from California

[artme]

Thank you for sharing the chooks, obvious not for eating.

Let me at 'em!!

[Christos]

Let me at 'em!!

Another chook lover.

[BantyMom]

Some people do eat my extra roosters, though you would think there isn't much on one. But I can't keep all the boys, so, I generally don't ask what they are going to do with them.

Here are pics of two of my Araucanas at a show.

[Old farmer]

BantyMom, If I am remembering correctly, in an earlier post you mentioned you were awaiting an Australian breed bird. Would that be an Australorp, please?

[BantyMom]

I am working on making a new variety (color) of Belgian Bearded d'Uccle that you have in Australia (and France) that we don't have here called "Ermine" (though some call it "Silver") and it's very pretty, a white bird with black spots all over.

These two are Mille Fleur color (roo and hen):
http://www.quakerfarm.com/MilleFleur.jpg
http://www.lakenvelderfarm.com/photo/millie.JPG

If you genetically change the buff color to white, you get ermine:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/C...ilMFdUccP.JPEG

On this page you can see all the possible colors:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/C...illeFleur.html

I don't have Australorps (great birds!), though I do have Orpingtons, which was one of the breeds used to develop the Australorp but which are fatter.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/C...pBISCklUK.JPEG
(though mine are black)