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Welsummer (Kellog's box rooster)

01ChickenGranny
By 01ChickenGranny
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Pros: Dark Brown Eggs, Good foragers, docile.

Cons: other chickens will pick on them

I love my welsummers.  They are really good hens and they lay beautiful dark brown eggs.  They are docile and other breeds have a tendency to pick on them in confinement.  Great foragers and lovely.

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jn21v3 4/23/12 at 3:29pm
I have a beautiful pair of wellies but my hen stopped laying last year and although she looks to be in fine condition -great colour and healthy size. She refuses to lay . She has taken to sittin on the fake egg I keep in the coop to encourage lying - two hours today but no egg. my nephew who also keeps hens is convinced she's laying elsewhere she shows all the signs but no eggs. Love her to bits but what can I do?
01ChickenGranny 4/23/12 at 9:11pm
If she forages around, she may very well have picked a different place to lay. Are you feeding her layena? If you don't they will slack off on laying.
jn21v3 4/24/12 at 12:33pm
Sh does forage around and is on Layers pellets too. There is no place for her to hide her eggs especially recently I have reduced the forage area while crops I've planted get established. She still looks great! just not producing.My other hens are ok. but they're not wellies!
jn21v3 5/3/12 at 3:28am
What can I do to boost her into egg laying?
jn21v3 5/9/12 at 10:08am
One of my blackrock hens and welsummer cock have produced a a pretty little chick. If She is a hen can I expect dark brown eggs?
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