Posts by kandya

I am so sorry for your loss. We recently lost one of our Welsummer roosters to heat stress. I know you must miss your guy, we sure miss ours

  10 month old Dominique Annabel

      Napoleon 5 months old Male Welsummer

Thanks for the welcomes and the info! We got them for backyard pets more than to improve the breed. I guess we never even considered the "improve the breed" option. Wellington is beautiful and we don't care if he's got some...

Thanks!  I thought maybe that he'd stepped in something and had a dandelion silk between his toes, but they don't come loose from his webbing. These are our first chickens but we got them from My Pet Chicken, so we're assuming...

Here are a couple of our 6 week old Dominique hens. They are sweet and friendly and beg to be held!  This is Augusta and Prudence

My husband and I are new to raising chickens. We have a rooster (named Wellington) who is about 6 wks old. I don't want to sound completely stupid but between his toes, in the webbing, it looks like he has some small feathers. Is that...

We have 2 Welsommer chicks (males) that are 5 days old. It has taken us no time to fall in love with them and the 4 female Dominiques we got on 6/2/11. The Welsommers are not as thrilled with being held as the Dominiques but they...

All of our Dominiques (females we think) love to be held and will hop up into your palm and just sit there smiling! Ok, maybe not smiling but smirking at least! They won't get down either. They love being held and talked to.

Hi All,I am new to this forum and new to raising chickens. My husband and I live in central KY. We have 2 Welsommers and 4 Dominiques that are 5 days old. They are the cutest things!  I am enjoying reading many of the posts and...