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Sadly, our welsummer Martha is gone. We finally culled her. She has been a very sick chicken for a very long time and got another infection. We put her out of her misery, and she has gone to the Big Free Range In The Sky. (Our RIR went also... we had them culled, couldn't do it ourselves in...

Quote: It's a little easier to come across Welsummers here on the West Coast then it is Barnevelders and Heritage Delawares, IMO. They are pretty rare and their numbers are increasing , but, I wouldn't say they are "extremely" rare, as the seller stated. $25.00 a bird is pretty blippin'...

Thanks. We really, really love her. I just went outside & she's diggin' for bugs along the fence and just seems happy as can be! She's just sickly. She is 8 months old and weighs MAYBE 2 pounds. She's small, and that right eye is swollen though is no longer draining green stuff and is LESS...

A while back I came across an ad that just made me laugh out loud! Some guy (might have been a lady, I don't know) put an ad on craigslist, advertising their welsummers as "an extremely rare Dutch breed, hard to find in the US, even harder to find on the west coast" and was selling 8-week-old...

Someone in Auburn has wellies???? Hmmm... Auburn's only 25 minutes from me....

Poor Martha, our wellie... I think we're gonna have to cull her. I am so sad, and my husband is even sadder because Martha is kinda HIS baby. She is about 8 months old. She's been here a little over 6 months and was 6-8 weeks when we got her, so we are estimating approximately 8 months of...

EVERYONE has had a huge drop in egg production this year. This is my first year keeping chooks, and for people like me, it's been a colossal waste if I was counting on gettingg enough eggs to make the $$$ I've spent on this chicken venture worthwhile. Thank goodness they pay me in love and...

I'm tellin' ya, we love our wellie like she was a kid. I know we're not supposed to play favorites, but sometimes when DH isn't home, I let the welsummer in the house with me for a few minutes at a time, only in the back part of the house where there are ceramic tile floors, though (easier to...

Quote: I think it's hatchery birds in general. None of mine in that age range (30+ weeks) are laying, either. Not my wellie, my BR, or my RIR. Nobody. I have another friend who has some hatchery birds that are about the same age as mine, give or take a week. Her BR has had red face...

Quote: Whatchu mean "laying again" ?? She's never even reached maturity, much less laid any eggs. None of my hatchery stock from this spring is laying except for the EE. No one else has any combs, no wattles, no nothin', just like Martha. They've been here 6 months and we got squat...

My wellie has been here 6 months as of this weekend and was almost 2 months old when we got her. She doesn't even have a comb and wattles yet. Neither do any of the rest of the birds I bought from that same vendor. To be fair, my Martha (the wellie) has had fowl pox and a respiratory...

If you ask me, wellies have a better temperament than marans, hands down.

I would like to chime in here. I have a welsummer, Martha, and she is the sweetest bird in our flock. Martha has been beset with a variety of health problems. She had something weird going on when she first came here (she was 6 weeks when we got her in May), and she was a "narcoleptic"...