The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[faykokoWV]

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[cpartist]

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HI BEEKER!!!!!!!!!

Good to see you again! Don't stay away so long next time!

Very LOVELY EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! So jealous you live so close to CP.

CP has beautiful birds and eggs......me thinks...one day, I am going to hit her up for a box full of all kinds of eggs from her pretty birdies and I don't care what breed they come from.

Have you seen that girls Blue Laced Red Wyandottes??????

Awwww....thanks you guys

Katherine...It has been so great to have some one local to share and talk chicken with. I am excited to work on some of the breeds with you and it will be great to outcross with you occasionally without
totally outcrossing.

Pink....I'll send you that box anytime....just let me know when you are ready

. It will for sure have some eggs from my original super productive, super dark egg gene Blue Copper girl.
I'd love to see what her offspring throws with the gnarly Gnarles

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As to the Wellies....these are not my favorites. The only thing that keeps them around are the nice eggs and I like my new roo Jesse. I will have to get an updated pic...he is a hulk.
They are not very productive for me. PRODUCTIVITY is one of the most important things I breed for. I am used to my other breeds starting early (19-22) weeks and laying 9-10 months out of the
year. I have Ameraucanas and Marans that outlay my hatchery Buff Orps. The Wellies, on the other hand, have taken 7-9 months before onset of lay. They laid great for me for a few months last spring,
then stopped in June when the weather got hot. After that they took fall off for molt, and only one older girl has resumed laying. I'm wondering if the FL summers are too much for them

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I will be checking with you Katherine to see how well yours lay in our climate.

I do have ONE girl, Josie, that is super productive. She took six weeks off to raise and brood chicks, then another 3 weeks just recently to molt. Other than that she has laid an average of 5 eggs a week
all year. I am growing out only her pullets in an attempt to incorporate her "productivity gene". Fortunately she is my darkest egg layer.....unfortunately she threw a chick with feather stubs

 

[faykokoWV]

cpartist, I checked out your blog, you have some beautiful birds!!!

 

[cpartist]

Thanks faykoko

 

[pinkchick]

HI CP!!!!!

Been a long time

......you been hidin' out?


Girl....you don't have to just send eggs.....send that Blue Copper hen too.

Kidding! She and Gnarly would make some cool babies wouldn't they?
I've been eyeballing those BLR's of yours for sometime.......

Anywho......back to Wellies, I'm sorry you are kinda frustrated with the laying productivity of them. My girls are laying up a storm for just 4 girls and one being in one of the worst molts I've ever seen. I haven't experienced any productivity loss in the summers, but then again my summers aren't even close to yours, but Wellies aren't suppose to be egg laying machines, but they should be pretty consistant.

I totally hear ya on the feather stub issue!!!!!!!!!! OMGosh..............

I hear ya!!!!!!!!

My girls and boy will be taking a very long break after all of their hatching egg orders are filled......they are going to spend the spring, summer and fall out on pasture and then they will be spending the rest of the year in the laying flock....(IF ANYONE WANTS EGGS THEY SHOULD HOLLER AT ME PRETTY SOON because it could be until next spring before I seperate them again or longer). I will be tossing in one more batch of eggs for myself...need some more girls for next year and still trying for a good extra cockerel to keep around.

Luanne~ I would love to have some of your beautiful eggs....whenever you have them...you just let me know and I'm all over it. I always have plenty of room in my 'bator.

Which works WONDERFULLY and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! DO YOU HEAR THAT LENSTERS?????.......I LOVE IT!!!!!

 

[rsquared]

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Pinks,

Had sent you a pm, thinking you might not have received it. Want to add Wellies to my BlueC order when my name is top o the list

If you want to send sooner, no problem totally willing to pay the shipping AND the incubator(s) are running. Would like to be totally finished hatching here by early Spring.

Risa

 

[pinkchick]

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Pinks,

Had sent you a pm, thinking you might not have received it. Want to add Wellies to my BlueC order when my name is top o the list

If you want to send sooner, no problem totally willing to pay the shipping AND the incubator(s) are running. Would like to be totally finished hatching here by early Spring.

Risa

Sorry Risa...my PM's are totally full....I am going to work on that today. I'm trying to touch base with a couple of folks to see what they would like me to do with their orders and then I can get in touch with you and see what I can do, shouldn't be a problem. It's coming up pretty quick.

 

[cpartist]

Kim, I will email you tonight for your address and get a box of assorteds out to you.

I've been around, but spending a lot of time back reading through the Delaware threads
and learning as much as I can from the smart people over there

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Also, I blew out my knee a while ago and was not able to squat to get good update photos

 

[cherylcohen]

Sorry I'm sure you all are sick of seeing these, but the pics are for Kim and anyone else that wants to help with the finals on the sexing quiz!!

These are a positive pullet with either the brown band or the no band, to help determine their sex...any ideas

white cockerel
gold pullet
orange cockerel
lavender pullet
blue pullet
red pullet
green pullet
brown ???
black pullet
no band ???

NO BAND

BROWN BAND

 

[pinkchick]

Thank you Cheryl for taking the time to post extra photos! Most awesome photos too! No band is definately a cockerel and I am going to say so is brown band.