The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Hens and Roos]

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thank you sharing the information, I enjoy reading and learning more about the Welsummers!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Dr Netland......thank you so much for sharing. This is great information to have and I look forward to hearing more from you. I'm just beginning in my breeding of welsummers, so I have a lot to learn.

I too would be interested in seeing some pictures of the original Welsummer stock.

 

[vanalpaca]

As a beginning Welsummer enthusist, I can only say that we sincerely appreciate this wealth of information you bring to our knowledge of the Welsummer!!

I'm hoping I will have a good hatch and will have a fair start on a good sized flock of Welsummers to work with over the next 2 years. I can only wait until they grow up to see if they come up to the tail sets, size, and egg size and colors. I continue to learn JUST what to cull out on an almost daily basis as long standing breeders chime in with their experiences here.

We hope for some pictures soon. On BYC you have to have somewhere between 10-50 posts to prove you are a real person and the site then allows you to upload pictures. BUT you could easily email them to another member and they could post them so we wouldn't have to wait. Then you could help point out tail set angles etc so us NEWBIES could better understand what we should be trying for.

Honestly, I know nothing about how to go about chicken breeding. My oldest Wellies are only a couple of months old and they are the first strain I will be attempting to work with!!

Cheers all and keep training me up!!
Bonnie from Clyde, OHIO

 

[harryof47]

I also appreciate the comments by Dr Bjorn Netland, especially when he was writing about the Barber line, since I now have some.

I haven't been around lately, because I sub at the Post Office on a rural route, and the regular carrier had a mild stroke the first of the month. I'm used to working one day a week not 5 & 6 (OK you can laugh). So today I'm trying to get caught up, along with getting feed, I have my own feed mixed, and try to stick to a higher protein and not the minimun. I'm a little afraid to find out what the higher feed costs will be today.

Those barber chicks came in the first of the month and they let me come in late so I could pick up the chicks. Because of the heat they looked rough, so I gave them water and later feed, and when I got home they looked great. Didn't loose one chick.

Blessings

Harold

 

[tazcat70]

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Thank you Dr. Netland for posting. I really enjoy reading about your experiences with Welsummers. It would be great to know where Mr. Nelsons line went. And the gentleman from Oregon too.

Thank you for taking the time to join our group and share your knowledge with us.

 

[tazcat70]

Oops...

 

[vanalpaca]

Harry, since you are online, does this mean that subbing is Over or still doing the long days?

You should put a pic up of your roo, or can you direct me to one already on here?

So far my chicks from chickenstock all seem to be doing ok. One is cheeping a lot so I moved him and a couple buddies back into the smaller brooder in the house. He's finally stopped cheeping and has some food in his crop. Maybe he didn't get his beak dipped or didn't like life's changes. Just keeping an eye on him.

Cheers all,
Bonnie

 

[Dr Bjorn Netland]

Jackie, the APA Standard of Perfection illustrator, may have at least two reasonably good slides of birds from the original line (dating back to about 1990 or so). She consulted with me before completing the painting of the Welsummers, and the suggested sketches I made up and sent her were pretty much modeled after stuff (artist's renditions as well as photographs) that I had collected at that time from UK and Dutch publications. I no longer have any of that material, but Jackie may still have the stuff.

 

[tazcat70]

I got 3 lovely Wellies from Faykokowv eggs. One is a little lighter and less defined chipmonk color, than the other 2. Does this sound like a male and 2 females?

 

[Opa]

The longer I have Welsummers the more I appreciate just how nice they really are, and to read Dr Netlands posts inspire me to work harder to improve my birds. I think I have some pretty decent looking birds but I'm sure that with a little more judicious culling they could be improved upon. I have noticed that with some pullets as day olds that the chipmunk appearance is more dramatic and that the dark vee on their heads is more pronounced. I'm thinking that this might be a good starting point in selecting birds to keep. Anyone else have any thoughts?