Once again we must face a brutally cold day and with the exception of tending the birds I will be staying indoors. Granny has a dinner after church tomorrow so Hope is making pizzelles for her to take. Since making them is a slow process I think I can be assured of a steady supply of warm cookies to eat for several hours. Plus I think it is prudent that I maintain a constant quality control during the entire baking to insure that none of them are less than perfect.
For those of you planning on getting Welsummers for the first time I thought I'd share my experiences with the breed. First it is quite easy to sex them with pullets possessing the identifying dark vee cap on the heads. Second they are a very docile breed and I have never owned an aggressive Welsummer rooster and they normally are very easy of the hens. Third is that they are slow to start laying and typically are 28 weeks old before you'll see the first egg. Fourth is that their eggs run large to extra large with color ranging from a dark terra cotta to ones that are heavily speckled and you can expect around 220 eggs per year.
She still went to the dr, but all was well supposably. There is the drip bottle and should be a nasal spray bottle; i always get the spray one so if i get hit with flu instead i can still use it (so many squirts under the tongue). Worked on all of them but the "swine flu". Pricey at $15 a bottle, but it'll last all year. Don't work for colds, though.
