The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[beesong]

Thank you, Pink! They look wonderful. I'm off to shuffle eggs around in the incubators to make room........

 

[Happy Chooks]

Beautiful eggs Kim! Love the olive egger egg too. But inquiring minds wanna know: what is the purple egg with white splotches in the front right corner of the pic? I must have some of those for my egg basket!

 

[pinkchick]

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Thanks Chooks! LoL! That is an egg from my darkest laying Black Copper pullet. She has been known to give me very smooth and completely coated lilac colored eggs to a regular dark Black Copper egg to the egg you see in the picture. I have received several like this from her and have tried to incubate every one but haven't had one of them hatch yet...however, her regular colored BCM eggs hatch fine.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Thanks Chooks! LoL! That is an egg from my darkest laying Black Copper pullet. She has been known to give me very smooth and completely coated lilac colored eggs to a regular dark Black Copper egg to the egg you see in the picture. I have received several like this from her and have tried to incubate every one but haven't had one of them hatch yet...however, her regular colored BCM eggs hatch fine.

They are so pretty!

you can get one to hatch!

 

[faykokoWV]

anyone interested in eggs? I have 12+ ready to go $30 including shipping, If no one here wants them I will put them up for auction as BIN, just thought I'd offer to this thread first. These are Nates line

 

[pinkchick]

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Someone is going to be VERY HAPPY with these eggs!!!!!!!!!!!

Fay~ AWESOME that they are laying and you can offer up eggs from Nate's stock!
SO SO SO SAD for Nate...I know exactly how he is feeling and trust me it is very hard and discouraging to continue on after something like that, but we are very lucky that Nate is who he is and he will press on with his birds. It would be an even bigger loss to the Welsummer community if he didn't work with these birds anymore.

 

[faykokoWV]

I went ahead and put them in the auction BIN and they sold. I hope I can keep the line as good as he has. I emailed him and offered to send him free eggs if he's interested, but I haven't heard back yet. I figure he could start over with his own stock that way if he wanted since my birds are currently 100% his stock from eggs I hatched last spring. I suppose in the fall I may add some from another line, I want to see how the offspring of these guys look and go from there.

 

[pinkchick]

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Congrats!
You will do great with his birds Fay. The foundation is already there...and you have direct access to Nate as well are many others for advise or assistance if needed. I'm sure he is just very busy and hasn't had the time to respond yet..again very understandable....but I have tosay......YOU TOTALLY ROCK for offering him some eggs from your girls!

After I lost all but 2 of my Wellies to the neighbors dogs...Lensters was just as ROCKIN' as you are and offered me some chicks from some birds that he had received from me previously. Though it was very very kind and sweet and I appreciated it more than he will ever know...I took the long road and rebuilt with one pullet and one roo and at one egg at a time.....did I say the long road????

I do hope he accepts your offer and gets some eggs. In retrospect...looking back now I should have went and picked up those chicks from Len.

But I can say that I learned more about my Wellies and their offspring taking the long road. It was much easier to study 2 birds at a time....then slowly I added one pullet, then another and another until now I finally 5 mature girls and this year I am adding only one pullet. I got to know individual characteristics and behaviors, who lays what egg....who throws what no no's or who throws good traits and etc. LOL! The first hatch after the dog attack was all cockerels and one pullet. Then the mature pullet that survived the dogs stopped laying and went into molt. It was a very long time before I could hatch out anymore eggs, but finally she started laying again and off to hatching I went.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I would have, but I'm full raising 22 chicks at the moment. No more room until these chicks grow up and I figure who's staying and who's not.

Not to mention the DH would kill me if I incubated again. But if I get a broody.

 

[vanalpaca]

JUST GOT my first 2 orders of WELSUMMER hatching eggs in THIS MORNING!! They sent extras so even though 1 each cracked, I have plenty to put in the bator. I repaired the cracks and we will put all 36 eggs in just in case it works! I was happy that about 6 of the eggs received were EXTRA DARK!! Here they are:

They will go into the 'bator 4/12 Tuesday morning! The really dark ones came from Amanda in Alabama. Most of the eggs were really large. A couple were longish and a couple were smaller. Overall, two nice shipments of eggs!

Both are from breeder's lines bought from other breeders and worked on, NOT hatchery eggs or lines! So I am hopeful that I will have something closer to the standard that I can work with to maintain egg color, size, and production, while working on keeping that 'Welsummer look'!!

Cheers all and wish me luck hatching out some chicks!
Bonnie in OHIO