The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[pinkchick]

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Lisa~

Your gunna looooooooovvvvvvvvveeeeee them!

Good luck with your hatching egg search. Right now may be a hard time to get eggs shipped due to the heat. My suggestion is to locate the eggs you want to purchase and set up shipping for sometime later in Sept. Unless of course you are able to find someone close to you, right now it is just pretty much too hot to be shipping anything.

 

[pinkchick]

cthrash~

He is a good looking rooster!

Love the story from when your hubby was growing up, isn't funny how some things just stick with us no matter what.


Hens and roos~

We will be waiting!!!!!!!

rfunger~

They will find the feeder don't worry. They are just being difficult about it. Silly birds.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Well, I'll tell you a story... When hubby was a kid a rooster, looked much like this in coloring but not as big(probably Gamecock), showed up and took up residence with their dog. Ate with the dog, slept with and sometimes on the dog, and followed it everywhere.
So when I showed hubby a picture the first time of a BCM he made a comment that he wouldn't mind having one that looked like their childhood rooster. So one day BYC member Shelleyd2008 had this couple of Welsummers and not knowing whether they were actually a pair we decided I should buy the pair just in case. Turned out that the smaller one was actually a very slow maturing cockerel, so he went to a new home and Chanty is the lead man of the flock. Hubby thinks he is so pretty and can't get over how huge he is. Keeps saying he is definitely larger than the one they had.

I think if I could only have one roo- it would be a wellie. My guys have always been so gentle, protective, and pretty. My "head guy" right now has to share his coop with a mess of broodies. He stays out all day and waits for me to open the coop so he can go in at night. Such a sweetheart.

 

[littlepeeps]

Ok, long story made short: I bought "Americuna's", was 'told' that they are EE's, now I was trying to sex them and told that they are not EE's but welsummers. Can you confirm that this is what they are? I now realize that you do not get 'pure-breds' from hatcheries, and I do not intend to breed. I just wanted some fun egg colours for the kids, but 'spotted dark brown' can be fun.

Can you tell me about the breed? Good for smaller backyards? When do eggs come? Is there a 'bantam' size and a 'large' size? How do you tell the difference? As you can tell, I am SOO new to chickens, but loving every moment with them. They all come running everytime I go out the back door, hoping for their milk or fresh corn.

 

[havi]

Did you buy them from a hatchery? Were they sold as 'ameraucana'? If so then you have easter eggers. Everytime I bought EEs from Ideal, they always looked like welsummers. But they laid a green egg. So I would say you have EEs they look like welsummers.

 

[Hens and Roos]

It looks like the Welsummer girls that we but you'll probably know better once it starts laying eggs.

 

[havi]

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Eggs can start at 15 weeks or take as long as 32 weeks. I know its extreme on both ends, but I would look for them to start laying around 18 weeks or so. Yes there is a bantam and then the large fowl. More then likely you have LF. When you bought them it would say either bantam or LF.

 

[EweSheep]

That is a Welsummer and built like one too. IF she lays white eggs, I'll eat my words!

They are good just about anywhere except for factory farms or battery cages. As you can see alot of us have Welsummers, as the previous posts would say there are ALL kinds of disposition but they must be gentle and not people aggressive.

For Welsummers coming from a hatchery or hatchery bred, the eggs will come around six to eight months of age. While some of us have quality bred Welsummers (non=hatchery lines), it takes a bit longer. Had one pullet that didn't lay for almost 11 months and she laid a beautiful dark terra cotta egg! Wooooo weeeeeeee! And she is still going strong at four years old, and lays almost daily.

Yes there are bantam size and large fowl size. Big differences in size so you can tell them apart. As for bantams, there are very few breeders out there and we are pretty picky where our bantams will go to, to make sure the new owners are not in for money making schemes or ruin the quality in the long run. Be expected to pay alot of money for bantams...not usual to find a pair for at least $75 to 100 dollars. German lines are a little cheaper. Are they in demand? No, not really but in due time, they will be. The Bantams have been here in the US for last twenty years by very dedicated breeders who do not deal with the public or rather stay secluded. Lately a very few of us would have some available.

Large sizes are plenty to be had around here. Just take your pick and go from there.

 

[littlepeeps]

I did buy from a Hatchery, Performancy Poultry in Ontario, Canada, as ameraucana (sorry about my spelling).
I just want to know what they are! The EE people said that they weren't even EE's!! They are 'missing' the green legs, and other characteristics.
They are about 14 weeks, so eggs should be comming soon, and I guess the proof will be in the egg colour.

 

[EweSheep]

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Its too close to be a Welsummer than an EE. EE usually have pea combs or some weird combs, not the single comb that the pullet displays and the color is too similar to a Welsummer. The only thing is if she lays white eggs, then she would be a Brown Leghorn. However, her type, colorings and conformation tells me she is a Welsummer.

I had Wheaton or Wheaton blended EEs and they do not look like that, look closely at the feathering patterns, salmon breast colorings.