The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[pinkchick]

Thank you flower, Hens, Nate and Chooks!

Welcome Gallus!!!! I may show some birds next year because I have been asked to accompany a BYC friend and show a few of our birds together. Moral support ya know. So I am tossing around the idea of taking a few of my pullets that I hatched and grew out this year along with a couple of my BCM pullets.

Nate~ How big are your roos from the Amestein line and how big are your 2010 import birds. Do they have nice size?

 

[pinkchick]

#18 and no her earlobes are not white, don't know why this photo makes them look like it.

She's a nice beefy girl at almost 7 mos of age and is bigger than her sisters that are a couple months older, I like very much that she has taken her size from her daddy.

Here she is getting ready to jump up into mamma's planter boxes and see what kind of trouble she can get into.

 

[SFIcelandics]

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For bantams they are a big size, but compared to the LF, they are the typical 1/3 to 1/2 the size. Im in love with my welsummer bantams, and so glad I got the opporutnity to own such rare birds! I dont think the size should be bred down too much on them. ANd being of such recent imports the bantams are bred to the dutch standard, so I am keeping both dutch hens and USA stadard hens in the breeding pen. I do not want to loose what the dutch have done, so my main focus is on their standard. Which it is not too much different than ours.

Nate

 

[pinkchick]

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For bantams they are a big size, but compared to the LF, they are the typical 1/3 to 1/2 the size. Im in love with my welsummer bantams, and so glad I got the opporutnity to own such rare birds! I dont think the size should be bred down too much on them. ANd being of such recent imports the bantams are bred to the dutch standard, so I am keeping both dutch hens and USA stadard hens in the breeding pen. I do not want to loose what the dutch have done, so my main focus is on their standard. Which it is not too much different than ours.

Nate

Thanks that is good to know. How about your LF roos, what is their size like? Most specifically their weight.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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And when you send me eggs, make sure some of hers are in there too!!!!!

Love the dark, speckled eggs!!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Pink......thanks for the picture of #18, after seeing that picture, I think I'll be removing my current wellie girl from breeding once I have replacements. I think she's too light in color, I like the rich color of your girl. Visual comparisons help a lot, so thanks!

 

[pinkchick]

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Thank you Chooks! I am finding that Odin makes some spectacular birds. His comb may leave something to be desired, but all things considered, thats an easier thing to fix than most other things in breeding poultry, IMO.

Absolutely I will include her eggs. Wish the other girls would do something silly, like lay an EGG! Free loaders!

All girls in the breeding pen with the exception of one are Odin's dtr.s. The one that is not is the only girl remaining I have from my original birds to have survived that dog attack along with Odin. I figured out that Loki is not Odin's son. When the dogs attacked I had 2 roos, Odin and Ve. When I collected the first eggs after that it dawned on me recently that.....duh, Ve's rooster juice would have still be viable in the surviving hen.
My determination was easy to come to many months down the road after my brain decided to jump on board and compare photos and notes of Ve and Loki vs Odin and Loki. Also, Odin's size is a dead ringer in his offspring and Loki being very small like Ve and built more like Ve, tells me that I was way off when I thought that he was Odin's. All of the girls I have now are bigger than Loki and if he were Odin's son, this would not be the case. I have a couple of Olive Egger cockerels that Odin sired and compared to everything Loki, there is no way Odin can be his father. Loki now lives in the laying flock and will not be used for breeding.

Lensters has been here and he has seen my birds upclose and personally held Odin in his arms. He can give you his take on Odin and his dtr's, too bad that Odie was just going into a molt when Len came over, Ooooo he looked so ragged.

 

[Gallusfarm]

I love Odin!!

#18 is awesome as well!

 

[pinkchick]

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Thank you!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Thank you Chooks! I am finding that Odin makes some spectacular birds. His comb may leave something to be desired, but all things considered, thats an easier thing to fix than most other things in breeding poultry, IMO.

Absolutely I will include her eggs. Wish the other girls would do something silly, like lay an EGG! Free loaders!

All girls in the breeding pen with the exception of one are Odin's dtr.s. The one that is not is the only girl remaining I have from my original birds to have survived that dog attack along with Odin. I figured out that Loki is not Odin's son. When the dogs attacked I had 2 roos, Odin and Ve. When I collected the first eggs after that it dawned on me recently that.....duh, Ve's rooster juice would have still be viable in the surviving hen.
My determination was easy to come to many months down the road after my brain decided to jump on board and compare photos and notes of Ve and Loki vs Odin and Loki. Also, Odin's size is a dead ringer in his offspring and Loki being very small like Ve and built more like Ve, tells me that I was way off when I thought that he was Odin's. All of the girls I have now are bigger than Loki and if he were Odin's son, this would not be the case. I have a couple of Olive Egger cockerels that Odin sired and compared to everything Loki, there is no way Odin can be his father. Loki now lives in the laying flock and will not be used for breeding.

Lensters has been here and he has seen my birds upclose and personally held Odin in his arms. He can give you his take on Odin and his dtr's, too bad that Odie was just going into a molt when Len came over, Ooooo he looked so ragged.

Well tell them to hurry up! (but not too fast, my incubator is full for the next 3 weeks

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