Animals & Habitat Areas; Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo

Wallaroo Station Animal Fact Sheet

AUSTRALORP CHICKENS
(Gallus gallus)

Range:	Australia	Australorps have intense beetle-green sheen on the black birds, dark eyes, deep bodies and are very active. They have a featherless face with whites soles to their feet.
Habitat:
Diet:	Grains, seeds, worms, insects
Status:
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Lifespan:
Reproduction & Offspring:	Australorps are good egg producers and hold the world's record for egg production with one hen having laid 364 eggs in 365 days under official Australian trapnest testing. The eggshell color is brown.