The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[outback hatcher]

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Here are brand new pics
roo#1
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00002.jpg
roo #2
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00001.jpg
roo#2 with the only hen that would pose for me. The other 3 hens look the same as her
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00000.jpg

In my opinion...and this is just my opinion, I would not use roo#2, #1 looks better and looks to have a better comb. Your hen looks good too... is she laying yet?

Pictures on the internet are sometimes very misleading and can be hard to really see detail in. I wish my monitor showed clearer photos like my husbands monitor.

Yes her and the other 3 are laying but as with all my other layers they are on strike due to the heat

 

[flower]

grandmaof5..............It is amazing how much the chicks grow in one week! It is kinda early but I think my favorite is chick-let

 

[TurtleChick]

OMG

i love my fat bottom orp girls, but i really really really reallllllllly want a couple of wellies....... not for breeding or showing, just for my own viewing pleasure! you guys are total enablers, posting pictures of all your gorgeous peeps. my reading has convinced me that i really need a few from one of you breeding here in my neck of the woods (western washington) and not hatchery birds. egg color is coolio in your birds and temperament (my first priority - i want happy chickens, no stress for them or meeee!) seems to be much better in your privately bred birds, yes?

i have 3 broodies and am on the hunt for a few VERY new peeps to try and slip under one of them (split the hatching eggs between the other two)... anyone have or going to have brand new peeps now or in the very near future?????? if not, i will probably wait til spring.

thanks for all of your posts and pics and info about these gorgeous birds!

 

[pinkchick]

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Hi Turtle!

We are enablers aren't we???

My 'bators have been powered down for a couple of months.....so no babies here, bummer! I also only have 2 gals a layin' or I would get some hatching eggs together for you. Have you tried Tailfeathers (Royce) he may have some hatching eggs available and he is a little closer than myself or Lensters. Royce has some very nice birds. Royce also has a very dear friend named Erhard that lives up your way, he breeds Wellies as well. One of these fellas may be able to help you out. Congrats on your broodies!

Someone I sold some Wellie hatching eggs to last year has 3 Wellie ladies that have gone broody and she has been picking my brain on how to get them to stop. She says they are content to sit right along side her turkeys and nest with them, so she stuck some turkey eggs under them...

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I am half tempted to take her up on her offer to give them to me as they are from my original breeders post massacre and she can't stand broodies, says they are a waste of her time, she raises birds only for meat and eggs. Not one of my Wellies has ever gone broody. She's a lucky gal to have one go broody but let alone 3 Welsummers go broody....all I can say is WOW!

 

[pinkchick]

G-Ma~

You are one in a million!

Thank you again for taking the time to post your sweet little ladies for us. My DH would just have a fit if my babies were in the living room on my lap.....look at you go...I'm jealous!

I'm with flower on this one and kinda like chick-let the most......seems like she has more personality. Thanks again!

 

[TurtleChick]

My 'bators have been powered down for a couple of months.....so no babies here, bummer! I also only have 2 gals a layin' or I would get some hatching eggs together for you. Have you tried Tailfeathers (Royce) he may have some hatching eggs available and he is a little closer than myself or Lensters. Royce has some very nice birds. Royce also has a very dear friend named Erhard that lives up your way, he breeds Wellies as well. One of these fellas may be able to help you out. Congrats on your broodies!

Someone I sold some Wellie hatching eggs to last year has 3 Wellie ladies that have gone broody and she has been picking my brain on how to get them to stop. She says they are content to sit right along side her turkeys and nest with them, so she stuck some turkey eggs under them....
I am half tempted to take her up on her offer to give them to me as they are from my original breeders post massacre and she can't stand broodies, says they are a waste of her time, she raises birds only for meat and eggs. Not one of my Wellies has ever gone broody. She's a lucky gal to have one go broody but let alone 3 Welsummers go broody....all I can say is WOW!

i may just have to find some hatching eggs next spring....

once my girls made it very clear they intended to hatch pine shavings if that was all that was available to sit on, we built a 2 unit broody condo (and also begged an old rabbit hutch coop from a friend who wasn't using it). now i figure i can let them hatch out a few eggs every spring and get the broody outta their systems!

for now i'm going to keep up the search for a few day old peeps - one of my girls went broody right before i set the eggs (which is why i only have 9 eggs for 3 girls - i started with a dozen, figured it'd be fine for 2) but the other two have been broody for 2 and 3 months respectively. ARGH. i just want to be done with broodiness!!!!! the failed struggle to break my girl who's been broody for a million years is what prompted me to get some eggs for them to sit on. i'll just find a few ee'r or buff orp babies - something easy to rehome when the moms are done with them.

i think broodiness is contagious. the brats. i read somewhere about your losing your original flock - you should totally take her broodies off of her hands!

wish me luck in my hatch this week - the girls and i are all first timers! and thanks for your help!!!!​

 

[pinkchick]

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i may just have to find some hatching eggs next spring....

once my girls made it very clear they intended to hatch pine shavings if that was all that was available to sit on, we built a 2 unit broody condo (and also begged an old rabbit hutch coop from a friend who wasn't using it). now i figure i can let them hatch out a few eggs every spring and get the broody outta their systems!

for now i'm going to keep up the search for a few day old peeps - one of my girls went broody right before i set the eggs (which is why i only have 9 eggs for 3 girls - i started with a dozen, figured it'd be fine for 2) but the other two have been broody for 2 and 3 months respectively. ARGH. i just want to be done with broodiness!!!!! the failed struggle to break my girl who's been broody for a million years is what prompted me to get some eggs for them to sit on. i'll just find a few ee'r or buff orp babies - something easy to rehome when the moms are done with them.

i think broodiness is contagious. the brats. i read somewhere about your losing your original flock - you should totally take her broodies off of her hands!

wish me luck in my hatch this week - the girls and i are all first timers! and thanks for your help!!!!

Thats a long time for those gals to be broody.....so you say you have a hatch this week right? and these eggs are under all of them?

 

[TurtleChick]

i KNOW! booting them off the nest multiple times a day didn't work, they just puttered around for 5 minutes and went right back. putting them in a wire cage (not elevated and they couldn't sleep in it, didn't trust it to be completely predator proof) didn't work, they just hunkered down in the corner and went back into their broody coma. putting ice under them didn't work, they just moved the ice. these things worked with 2 of the other girls (5 of my 6 have gone broody at one time or another this spring/summer). i gather eggs constantly, they were sitting on nothing. finally i gave up because despite my kicking her off of the nest constantly, my girl wren (longest broody) has lost a TON of weight and got lice AND mites from just sitting and sitting and sitting. i need her to be done done done!!!!! i fuss and worry constantly about my girls - they're pets who lay eggs as a side benefit.

they do not budge from their nests on their own, i still have to pop them off of their nests once daily for their fast-motion dustbath/eat/drink/poop-a-thon. stubborn broodies.

so yes, right now i have the eggs split: 5 under my longest running broody (i think one of them is a dud, but not sure when i last candled at 12 days - it doesn't smell so i left it in for now), 2 under each of the others. ideally i'd like to split the eggs 5 and 4 (make sure each girl gets at least a couple of peeps hatched out) and grab like 3 or 4 babies to slip under the 3rd girl. that's the plan anyway.................. chickens have a way of foiling my best-laid plans tho.

thursday is day 21.... EEK!

 

[grandmaof5]

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The funny thing is that Chick-let is the one who doesn't like yoghurt; the other 2 love it. They all love moths but for obvious reasons, I don't feed them moths in the living room.

I try to take them in each day or so to get them tamer than they are...the only time they'll come near me when they are in their brooder (large box) is if I have a moth for them to fight over. If they aren't excited, they don't poop on me (only had that happen once which is why I usually have an old cotton dishcloth (which isn't used for dishes, btw

) on my lap under them. My DH has no interest in holding them, but tolerates me having them inside...

 

[EweSheep]

Quote:
Here are brand new pics
roo#1
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00002.jpg
roo #2
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00001.jpg
roo#2 with the only hen that would pose for me. The other 3 hens look the same as her
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44571_welsummers_00000.jpg

In my opinion...and this is just my opinion, I would not use roo#2, #1 looks better and looks to have a better comb. Your hen looks good too... is she laying yet?

Pictures on the internet are sometimes very misleading and can be hard to really see detail in. I wish my monitor showed clearer photos like my husbands monitor.

I agree, I would NOT use roo #2. The roo #1 is better in color, conformation and comb points. Cant see the number of points too well but they should have at least five points and evenly serrated.