Mansfield, IL
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- Purpose
- dual
- Egg color
- brown
- Eggs / year
- ~250
- Hen weight
- ~6.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- docile, quiet, gentle
- Forages
- good
- Broodiness
- moderate
- APA class
- English
- NPIP stock code
- R96
- Origin
- Australia
Breed guide
Australorp
Also known as: Black Australorp
Australian breeders took the Black Orpington and selected it hard for lay; one hen of this breed once put up 364 eggs in 365 days. Plumage is glossy black with a beetle-green sheen. Black is the APA standard, and Blue and White varieties are bred too.
Keeper's notes
They take heat and cold, and rain does not bother them. For a wet-climate backyard there is hardly an easier bird to keep. The medium single comb seldom frostbites in a maritime winter.
APA recognized varieties
English · American Standard of Perfection, 2010 list
Black 1929
Australorp listings
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Where to find Australorp
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (70)
Salem, IL
Chebanse, IL
Chesterfield, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Pekin, IL
Huntley, IL
Evansville, IL
Greenview, IL
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (9)
Fults, IL
Zeeland, MI
Ashland, OH
Ashland, OH
Polk, OH
Sugarcreed, OH
Cincinnati, OH
OH
West Union, OH
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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