Do you just keep feeding and feeding and feeding them????

[rdport]

Well, we have been wondering the same thing....the Welsummers sure do eat. Ours were hatched on March 10th....they are very large, but no eggs....I hope that dark color is worth the many bags of feed we have bought.
They are so friendly and pretty.
Do they lay about the same time as other breeds, or are they late bloomers?

 

[Buff Hooligans]

If only McDonalds would offer a Happy Meal-Worm.

 

[elmo]

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They do have a job! A pretty darn good one. They look cute and you feed them and in a while they'll give you eggs (which they'd do anyway) and you'll feed them some more! Pretty cushy, if you ask me.

 

[littlemissjellyfish]

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*chuckle*
If only!

 

[welsummerchicks]

I am amazed at all the sounds they make. There is actually kind of a purr sound, and then there is the special sound they make when it gets dark, what we call roost peeps.

Then there is this one hen with a slightly lighter colored front, who thinks she is a canary. How she makes that bird noise is beyond me. But her name has to be Bird.

The bigger roosters are Rufus and LL Cool Jay. The one I want to keep is the one that just sits there and watches the other two fight, and snuggles up with the hens. His name is Colonel Chamberlain, he's the diplomatic one.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

My welsummers eat more than my other breeds for some reason!!!! I had wondered if it was just MY 2 girls - I guess not!!!

 

[onthespot]

all my birds together probably kill more than fifty pounds a day!

 

[SkyWarrior]

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Yeah, the chicks eat a lot at that age. I was stunned at how much the little boogers could pack away, but it does even out. Now I keep looking at my 23 week olds and wonder how they can eat so little when they were sucking down a lot of feed at 5-8 weeks.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

I buy no less then 200 pounds at a time. And I do not even have that many. The ducks being the big pigs at my house.

 

[Tala]

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Yup, that.

But it's also true about the teenage growth spurt thing, they seem to cut down on the food intake after they get into laying good.