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Interesting re the chipmunk colouring. Will be interesting to see what he looks like as an adult as those feathers look very much like normal welsummer feathers to me! I've never heard of head triangle and eyeliner indicating gender... i am simply going by comb size, the other chicks he's with...

Is it common for Welsummer X's to look like purebred Welsummer's as chicks? Last year I bought a some day old welsummer chicks, one turned out to be Welsummer X Barnevelder. I've just hatched some X breed chicks from my flock. One looks exactly like a Welsummer yet the father is the roo in...

Thanks Yeah we're about 2 weeks into summer now. I live in the south part of Australia (Victoria) so its not toooo hot in summer here... although almost every year we get life threatening bush fires... At the moment the weather is on average between 25-30 degrees Celsius (77 to 86...

Oh I have the same problem!! I had 6 hens sleeping in the nests at night, now i've only got 3... but that is still 3 hens pooping in the nests every night... sigh She's definitely broody. I took her off the nest to collect the eggs. She was sitting on 8 eggs and she put up a good fight when I...

One of my 7 month old Welsummer's has gone broody!! I was definitely not expecting that from her... I've got loads of hens going broody at the moment (it is spring after all) but I wasn't expecting the Welsummer's to! She's crazy protective of her nest. Every time I go near her she screams...

Thats awesome!! I've kind of done a similar thing with Doctor Who But it's not just in one room! I've got Doctor who things slowly spreading out from originally just being in my room! I actually built an (almost) life size Tardis cupboard last year! (The Tardis is the Doctor's police box time...

I love the name Hermione! I think i'm going to name my next dog that I'm also currently reading the Harry Potter books and loving them!!

It does look like pullet colouring, so I want to say pullet... however my wellie roo didn't get roo colouring until he was around 6 or 7 weeks old. Before that, he looked like a pullet in almost every way except for his comb

Oh what a cute idea!! Maybe I should give that a go with this egg

So excited right now Just got my first Wellie egg!! I'm not sure who layed it, but its so cute and tiny! Its nice and dark (well I think it is) and has little spots on it too, perfect Left: Wellie egg Right: ISA brown egg Below: White mix breed egg

Lovely girls you've got there

What a gorgeous roo!! I haven't had a wellie roo long enough for him to get aggressive with all those hormones, but personally I believe aggression is very much dependant on the individual rooster... yes breed might play a part in it too, but I really do feel that individual personality is a...

Ah okay, cool thanks Good to know that. Mine did come from a well known breeder, so that makes sense!

Took this pic yesterday, I'm so happy with my Welsummer girls They are such characters, and they're so pretty too! And for my first time ever raising day old chicks, I'm very pleased with how it went! They are now 23 weeks old, still no sign of eggs... sigh... I keep wondering if they are...

Definitely roosters, not sure if they'd be pure wellie though.

My wellies are 22 weeks old in 3 days... still no eggs... waiting... waiting... gosh its hard! I can't wait to see what their eggs look like

Washing eggs with water removes the protective layer from them which can allow for bacteria to enter the egg if not used soon. Because I sell my eggs I never wash them with water, and any that get water on them for some reason will become dog food. Most of my eggs are pretty clean, but any...

Thanks, I appreciate your opinion I believe this situation would have been an accident, the breeder I got them from aims for pure breeds, but accidents happen... they also gave me an Australorp X Cochin that was an accident, lol. She really did look pure as a day old though, I should...

I haven't noticed my Welsummers sounding really different to my other hens. I can occasionally pick the sound of them, but not always. They're not particularly vocal. If anything they sound deeper than my other hens do...

Well, my three welsummer pullets are now 20 weeks old, I still think they are quite far away from laying though. You guys might remember I was questioning the purity of one of my wellies, she looked pure as a day old, but soon developed a black coloured head. Well she's all grown up now, and...