welsummer

Hello, I am running a medium scale small farm pastured egg operation. My goal is to make my chicken breeding hobby sustainable through egg sales. These are the breeds I want to work with: Welsummer, Isbar, Ameraucana, and Bielefelder. I've read all I can find on them on the internet, however I...

Hello, I just need some help with a hen that I suspect is broody. She's an 9 month old Welsummer. She becomes very aggressive and puffs up when I try to get to the nesting box and she will do nothing but sit on the eggs all day. I think she may have gone broody around 3 weeks ago but we were...

Hi community. Thanks in advance for your help. In my flock of 7 hens, my two 17 month old Welsummer hens hard molted all summer long and had just begun laying again in late November when they both stopped laying again. They seem to be losing feathers again and their combs have grayed out again...

So I currently have a Welsummer and a Cuckoo Maran (both from a hatchery) who recently have started laying. From what I have read both should lay dark brown eggs. According to the hatchery I got them from “Marans lay the darkest eggs of any breed“ and Welsummer are know for “the production of...

I have 6 pullets: Favaucana is top (a benevolent ruler, rarely enforces using anything other than a side-eye, which works very well), bully EE is 2nd, 2 more EEs in the middle who sometimes join in the mean girl hazing but are usually peaceful and 2 OE Welsummer x Cream Legbar at the bottom...

I have 2 Welsummer x RIR roosters for sale. They are May hatchlings, nice boys but I have too many! They are in search of some ladies to take care of. Situated in the Finger Lakes, Upstate NY. I prefer not to ship if possible. Thanks for your interest, Sue

I have 3 young hens (approximately 5 months old): a speckled sussex, a Buff orpington and an Easter Egger. I also have a 1.5 y/o welsummer who has been laying lovely brown speckled eggs consistently. The other day we got a light-colored, speckled egg that was definitely a different color than...

Hello, I have just bought a pair of Belgian D'anvers. Currently I already have silkie hens, a silkie cockerel, a legbar hen, a welsummer cross silkie hen and silkie cross light Sussex hens. Would they be able to live together with the Belgian D'anvers? Or as there is a size difference will the...

We have a small flock of 5 hens and 1 rooster in our backyard--2 barred rocks, 1 silver laced Wyandotte, 1 buff Orpington, and 2 Welsummers. We will probably be adding new chicks next Spring, and I would love to split an order to save on shipping, etc., if anyone is close. Alternatively, if you...

Hello, chicken people!! Is our little Cricket a cockeral or a pullet?? He/she is exactly 4 months old (hatched from Meyer on 5/10/17), has always been chatty since she was two days old, and is the leader of the pack. She also is very vocal but doesn't do the traditional cock-a-doodle-do crow...

I purchased 6 pullets about month ago. They were in an egg layer mix I have for sure an Australorp, 2 red sexlink, and a RiR but the other two I can't figure out. They are also quite a bit larger than the others. I was told that Leghorn and welsummer were both in there but they don't seem...

Thanks for adding me. My question is to the breeders out there. I placed an order with a hatchery before I read this forum and found out that breeders such as are found on this website produce genetically superior chickens than hatcheries do. I'm looking for six friendly, quiet hens to start a...

It's been several years since we owned chickens, and now we're back at it!! We're just putting the finishing touches on our coop and 20' run. We have 6 girls... if we're lucky. We ordered day-old pullets from Meyer Hatchery and had 100% success last time around, but we're wondering if we have...

My wife and I have always loved the BYC forum, but for some reason just never signed up. We had our first go round with chickens in our back yard of about a third of an acre for a year about 4 years ago and then had to sell it all when we had to move. After building up the nerve to ask our...

our chicks came today!! I think I've figured out who is who based on what I ordered. But the yellow one I think is my bonus chick. Is it a golden comet?

Our Welsummer Rooster is just too aggressive to have around my toddlers. He's about 1 year old and has successfully fathered chicks. He is a wonderful protector to his flock (we haven't lost a bird to predators since he grew up) and coexists successfully with other breeds and with ducks. We are...

Hi all! I am fairly new to this website and I am hoping to connect with someone in the Phoenix, AZ area that can help. I have two, 10 week old roosters, one light Brahma and one Welsummer, that need to be re-homed somewhere. They have beautiful, kind, temperaments and we love them dearly...

I ordered five chicks this year. One of them definetly looks like a cream legbar pullet? What do you think?

Hi all, was just out for a walk a couple of hours ago and found this Lovely little (Presumably Wellsummer) chick all by her own on the side of the road, tweeting loudly. Luckily though, i have 26 week old chicks at home and this one has settled right in! She/he is the same colour as my current...