Pics at my website, welbars.com. They are Welsummers, with an added gene for barring to make the chicks easily sexable. I have a lot of different breeds, all of them very docile. That is only a help if you are near to me, what part of PA are you in?
Cumberland Co, outside of Carlisle.
That is pretty far from me in Pottstown, Chester Co, but if you ever get over this way, I can hook you up with female chicks.
Oh my goodness, what a comparison!
They should start up very soon. That is, assuming they aren’t old. Depending on a few factors, old hens can continue to lay two or four eggs a week, or only 4 eggs a year. It sounds like you need another two or six hundred chickens. 
I was almost to you yesterday - if only I had known! I’m not sure what I want to add just yet but those dark brown & olive eggs are tempting. When I lived in Florida I was about 20 minutes away from Greenfire. I remember the Welbars, now! Can’t remember her name but talked with the lady there about her birds a few times.
We have very close selections: I ordered a buff Orp, blue Ameracauna, Salmon Faverolle, Sussex, Dorking, and Blue Splash Marans from my pet chicken, but they will be shipped from Meyer. I usually get my chickens from Dennis, but my son has to have an ameraucana, so I decided to get some other chickens I wanted with it. I'm still worry about getting roos and dead chicks in mail. We will see how it goes. When Dennis starts to sell ameraucana pullets, I will be happily done with the mail order chicks. All my chickens from Dennis are friendly, except one Rhodebar that he doesn't have anymore. The Rhodebar girl was skittish from human, but would draw bloody from her flock mates for no reason. I guess that came from her Rhode Island Red gene. Welbar are all good layers of dark brown eggs, calm, friendly, like to follow you and beg for treats, but not really for cuddling. Olive eggers and Legbar like human contact more. One of my olive eggers, Molly, liked to ride on my should when I walking around and would fall sleep on my lap.
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Then there’s the ducks, turkeys...
I started a order of 4 chicks this year, because it's mypetchicken's minimun number. Then I could not decide Sussex or Dorking, so I add both. Then someone said her Blue Splash marans is so cuddling, then I had to call to add one. There are still many more looking good... But I HAVE to save some room for next year when Dennis has Ameraucana pullets and black sexlinks.
Funny about Greenfire's Welbars. They announced them and I expected them to make a big splash and be serious competition. They posted some pics and I commented in some public forums and I think even on their website, that the cockerels they had in the pictures were single barred and would not produce autosexing chicks. Fast forward some months and nothing out of GF about Welbars. Finally, word got out that they had abandoned the Welbars because they could not get them to be reliably autosexing. Seems they can buy and sell autosexing chickens, but have no idea about what makes the genetics work.I was almost to you yesterday - if only I had known! I’m not sure what I want to add just yet but those dark brown & olive eggs are tempting. When I lived in Florida I was about 20 minutes away from Greenfire. I remember the Welbars, now! Can’t remember her name but talked with the lady there about her birds a few times.
First things first- I have to finish my coop.
I built a gorgeous coop in Fl so I’m having performance anxiety here. Everyone expects something lavish and I just want functionality this time. Well, cute, too.
pic from Fl of my Viking Coop.
I was worried about shipping chicks, too, so I called Meyer today. The nice gentleman said that ordering fewer was actually safer for the chicks. Apparently in larger numbers ”trampling“ is the leading cause of loss. He assured me that my 3 would have a heat pack and be just fine. Poor guy, I bet he gets lots of worried chicken mammas and papas calling.
