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I am living in Santee right now with my Grandmother.... near the Santee Lakes.... Been in Santee for almost fifty years now. off and on
You know I was very pleasantly surprised about my Welsummers... Lovely brown speckled egg Beautiful shiny feathers. My home is 60 miles east of El Cajon and it can get up to 105 in the summer there. I had more eggs than I knew what to do with.
I dont handle the chickens more than just occasional inspections and to give them treats when I sit down by the coop. Treats from me are a handfull of scratch or even just their own layer pellets. they would flock around me...
Welsummers are self sexing... meaning you can identify boys from girls by their color patterns as chicks. The girls have very pronounced "eyeliner"
not kidding. And if you are able to have a roo the Welsummer roos are stately and very good with their girls and as far as I could tell respectful of their humans.
I also had great success with Easter Eggers... The chicks are soo cute and you wont be able to tell what color they are going to be when they grow up... some will lay blue green eggs some will lay pink eggs and some will lay white.... Blue and bluegreen are pretty common.
Double S is where I got my Welsummers. They were using Redwing hatchery at the time.
I got my EEs at East County.
You can call either and ask what they are getting in as well... Both Rita and Marty are very knowledgeable.
You also can order chicks in the mail... its a real kick to go to the post office and have someone go back an bring in a peeping box....
deb
Awesome.
