So this is my new girl Marilyn so my question since your all experts is she a wellie....
The Welsummer Thread!!!!
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Looks like my Henny to me!
Yep, she is a Wellie!
Can anyone tell me some pointers on the breed she is my first wellie got quite a stink eye and attitude already
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Useful info Pinkchick! Our welsummer is doing that. Began with speckled (REALLY speckled --beautiful) then to smooth, then slight speckling. Never one again like the first one. Has only been laying a few weeks though, and she is the one in the house that can't walk. The other Welsummer laid for the first time yesterday, REALLY speckled, looked just like Nan's first egg.
So which is the normal? Speckled or no? Will it vary forever or will she settle on one or the other? Which is more common?
for heavy speckling!
So which is the normal? Speckled or no? Will it vary forever or will she settle on one or the other? Which is more common?
Henny's eggs are barely speckled. Really small specks on them. She was a yr old July 4th. And, she only lays every other day. Sometimes, like this last egg, she skips 2 days!
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They can get a little darker after they have started laying, they can also lay a smooth egg the first time and the second it could have speckles on it, then back to a smooth egg again. Just like your Marans they are still working out the paint jet system. Welsummer eggs will not and should not be as dark as a Marans egg...ever. Terra Cotta is what you want.
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Where did your Wellies came from? I suspect they are from a hatchery or hatchery bloodlines. If they had the color of the Wynadotte egg, it is a shame!
I got them from somebody local . . . . so maybe their parents were hatchery stock
They can get a little darker after they have started laying, they can also lay a smooth egg the first time and the second it could have speckles on it, then back to a smooth egg again. Just like your Marans they are still working out the paint jet system. Welsummer eggs will not and should not be as dark as a Marans egg...ever. Terra Cotta is what you want.
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Where did your Wellies came from? I suspect they are from a hatchery or hatchery bloodlines. If they had the color of the Wynadotte egg, it is a shame!
I got them from somebody local . . . . so maybe their parents were hatchery stock
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2 of my older gals kinda settled on what their egg is going to look like, one lays a smooth, one lays a speckled. With that said though, both have switched it up and given me eggs opposite what they normally are. If you think about it...Wellies spray on their color just like the Marans do, so, the longer its in the chute.... the more color deposited, but there are many other things that can set them off. For instance, when one of my gals that normally lays a heavily speckled egg is in the nest box, inevitably another hen always has to get in the same blasted box with her because the other empty boxes just aren't good enough, they hen that is being pushed out will be so hissed off that she usually runs outside and drops her egg on the ground and sure enough it comes out with no speckles.
I don't think one is more common than the other (smooth vs speckled), either they do or they don't. Both are acceptable as long as they are that pretty Terra Cotta color.
2 of my older gals kinda settled on what their egg is going to look like, one lays a smooth, one lays a speckled. With that said though, both have switched it up and given me eggs opposite what they normally are. If you think about it...Wellies spray on their color just like the Marans do, so, the longer its in the chute.... the more color deposited, but there are many other things that can set them off. For instance, when one of my gals that normally lays a heavily speckled egg is in the nest box, inevitably another hen always has to get in the same blasted box with her because the other empty boxes just aren't good enough, they hen that is being pushed out will be so hissed off that she usually runs outside and drops her egg on the ground and sure enough it comes out with no speckles.
I don't think one is more common than the other (smooth vs speckled), either they do or they don't. Both are acceptable as long as they are that pretty Terra Cotta color.
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