The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Kismet]

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I have an Erhards broody (one year old almost exactly) that hatched seven chicks, now two weeks old. She is a great mom, and I have left her with her babes with all the others. I made a creep out of old oven racks that I was keeping to make an outside fire pit - oh well, chickens come first. The chicks can go in for food and water, but the LF are too big.

I was a little miffed that this hen went broody, because, of course, she stopped laying. I really wanted her eggs - I was going to incubate them myself.

 

[EweSheep]

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We got plenty to go around for hugs and our club is hopefully the same way too! I don't like too much politics anyway and hope the club would suceed without any politics as well. I try to keep them to a limit if one really wants to express opinions (or religious views) without offending anyone.

We are now up to 51 members in our club! Woo hoooo!

 

[beesong]

EweSheep, I haven't been able to log in to the Wellie site, although I did register. I wonder if I never received the confirmation link? Can you help?

many thanks!

 

[EweSheep]

PM you for email for invite. Hopefully it will work.

 

[vanalpaca]

I'm forlorn. My friend informed me that as of day 10 we are down to 12 out of 36 Wellie eggs from 2 different shipments. She says all the air sacs are 'funky' jagged, too.

My incubator does have 4 in it and I'm leaving everything to bake until the first week in May as long as nothing starts smelling off because I am new. I have a foam hovabator and started out moist, but switched to dry humidity within a few days

 

[fshinggrl]

Hi, I'm Jackie. The only way I could get some welsummers this year was to hatch them myself. So with a borrowed incubator I set 14 welsummer eggs & 2 EE's. At lockdown, I had 1 EE left & 11 Welsummer eggs with some of them being questionable. Currently I have the EE hatched along with two welsummers. I'm excited to be joining this group. Here is the EE (on left with feathered feet) and the welsummber on the right.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Welcome to the wellie thread, and congrats on the babies! They are adorable.

for more babies.

 

[poodlepill]

New to this breed, I have 6, 10 week old pullets. I have noticed thier "voice" is so husky LOL all 6 have various tones of huskyness, one in particular sounds like she is honking!!!!

So far I really like thier personality and I look forward to the pretty egg color.

 

[fshinggrl]

Ok.. I tossed the remaining 7 eggs. I candled and none of them were moving. So, out of 16 eggs, I ended up with 4 chicks. 14 of the eggs were my shipped welsummers in which I got 3 chicks from. I *think* I have 2 girls and one boy. That would make me extremely happy! I get 9 more chicks from the store on Tuesday.

 

[EweSheep]