I agree with Pink about Wellies going broody. I 've got a German banty that went broody on me last year but she was a horrible mother. Pecked the living daylights out of those chicks I put under her. I will give her one more chance and if she blows it, then she will never get that part of being a mother, just a broody which she is very good at.
I agree with Laurie's post about the White Welsummers over the Yahoo forum. I think she really hit the nail on the head. This guy, whatever happens, he has a very long uphill to climb to have that color or ANY other colors of Welsummers popping up in the United States and his birds will not be warmly welcomed with open arms. Like the Lavender Amerc. and Lav. Orps, all those project birds out there, there is alot of work needing to clear up those traits while maintaining the color. I just can't not see how White Welsummers would be accepted now at this point. He has a LONG row to hoe and jumping hoops thru the APA officials to promote the White Welsummers. I personally do not like white birds of any breed, period. Like Laurie said, God must have forgotten to use his crayon to color the birds LOL!
I wished him good luck and let him know he will meet with resistance from Welsummer breeders and hopefully he would be honest and work on it if he is determined. It may not be accepted in our lifetime but maybe in the next generation. Who knows what these breeds would mutate into. Most of all, its our job to produce what the standard and what common goals we have as breeders maintaining the Welsummer breed. I don't meant to come across as a snobbish person but to educate the chicken people is a very hard job for all of us. For those who wants to breed Welsummers in their trueish form, we have to go breeders and trying to have hatchery birds up to standards would be taking five steps back which the true breeders in the past ALREADY done that work for us. I certainly don't want to go back five steps and forward one step to get where I need to go with hatchery birds. I want to take the shortest route and keep working on what needs to be done by buying and hatching out breeder's chicks.
I had one member saying White Welsummers should not even exist. Period. I can understand that but with other folks reasonings, they would love a rainbow of colors of the Welsummers that lays terra cotta eggs. Nice thought but it would take decades to get there to get a consisent terra cotta egg color. Like all others, fads of colors would come and go but who would get the consisent demand, the original color of the Welsummer, the partridge color. Why mess with the good thing that the breed is well known for and for tradition?
I agree with Laurie's post about the White Welsummers over the Yahoo forum. I think she really hit the nail on the head. This guy, whatever happens, he has a very long uphill to climb to have that color or ANY other colors of Welsummers popping up in the United States and his birds will not be warmly welcomed with open arms. Like the Lavender Amerc. and Lav. Orps, all those project birds out there, there is alot of work needing to clear up those traits while maintaining the color. I just can't not see how White Welsummers would be accepted now at this point. He has a LONG row to hoe and jumping hoops thru the APA officials to promote the White Welsummers. I personally do not like white birds of any breed, period. Like Laurie said, God must have forgotten to use his crayon to color the birds LOL!
I wished him good luck and let him know he will meet with resistance from Welsummer breeders and hopefully he would be honest and work on it if he is determined. It may not be accepted in our lifetime but maybe in the next generation. Who knows what these breeds would mutate into. Most of all, its our job to produce what the standard and what common goals we have as breeders maintaining the Welsummer breed. I don't meant to come across as a snobbish person but to educate the chicken people is a very hard job for all of us. For those who wants to breed Welsummers in their trueish form, we have to go breeders and trying to have hatchery birds up to standards would be taking five steps back which the true breeders in the past ALREADY done that work for us. I certainly don't want to go back five steps and forward one step to get where I need to go with hatchery birds. I want to take the shortest route and keep working on what needs to be done by buying and hatching out breeder's chicks.
I had one member saying White Welsummers should not even exist. Period. I can understand that but with other folks reasonings, they would love a rainbow of colors of the Welsummers that lays terra cotta eggs. Nice thought but it would take decades to get there to get a consisent terra cotta egg color. Like all others, fads of colors would come and go but who would get the consisent demand, the original color of the Welsummer, the partridge color. Why mess with the good thing that the breed is well known for and for tradition?
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