The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[dretd]

My cost is $35 per dozen. I put peanuts in the bottom then line with bubble wrap. I wrap each egg individually in bubble wrap pouches and lay them in the box. When done, I fill with peanuts until there is just enough room to close the box. I've had good luck shipping this way and people have had good hatch rates.

I like the way you are describing your shipping method!

I think some times the eggs are packed in so tightly they are not allowed to shift at all in the box so any concussive force travels through the egg to the embryo so the egg shell is intact on delivery, but the embryo not so much. I like the packing to take a little of the shock. Sort of like having springs vs a hard board to sit on when you travel on a bumpy road. I'll take the springy seat and not get my teeth jarred, thank you very much!

 

[suebgbr]

I got sent eggs like this. Each egg was wrapped in bubblewrap and placed pointy end down. The cardboard walls stopped them rolling into each other.
Anyway.... Wrong thread.
On with the Wellie parade.

Ps I thought Wellies were partridge colour?

 

[Nickeyo]

Welsummers are either partridge or silver duckwing

 

[faykokoWV]

Welsummers are either partridge or silver duckwing

they also come in gold duckwing - but in the US silver and gold duckwing are only available in bantam welsummers... for now



the reference to black colored gold duckwing was for the chicken calculator.. its not the actual color of Welsummers

 

[dretd]

they also come in gold duckwing - but in the US silver and gold duckwing are only available in bantam welsummers... for now



the reference to black colored gold duckwing was for the chicken calculator.. its not the actual color of Welsummers

Exactly so. There is a finite limit to the types of color patterns available on the chicken calculator and I believe that gold duckwing will be closest. The only partridge listed from the pull down menu is 'black patterned gold multiple laced partridge/brown'. As fun as it is to play with, that is the flaw of the chicken calculator and why the babies don't always match up to what the chicken calculator said they should be.

 

[Lrkel]

Thank you for the answers. I am crossing a welsummer rooster with wheaten Ameraucana hens. Depending on which color you use it says they should look wheaten or black.

 

[bamachicks8]

Hi everybody I Ordered some hatching eggs today hoping to have some welsummer babies soon

 

[Hens and Roos]

morning- we are at day 19 of our current hatch and only 3 Welsummer eggs looked good out of 17 set, wondering if our rooster is having problems, hoping that we get a couple to hatch.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

Anyone know the differences in the silver duckwing wellie and a dorking? Trying to have my infomsreaight and the Internet searches always come back to the byc anyways!!!

Thank you
Flowers

 

[faykokoWV]

Anyone know the differences in the silver duckwing wellie and a dorking? Trying to have my infomsreaight and the Internet searches always come back to the byc anyways!!!

Thank you
Flowers

I actually did some research on this last year when I was looking into large fowl Silver duckwing welsummers. I thought the dorkings look so similar they might be a good start to getting the color over to the Welsummers. I spoke with a lot of people in the dorking groups and determined this was not a good idea!

- dorkings have 5 toes -Welsummers only 4, Dorkings have red earlobes, but they lay white eggs. Body type on a dorking is more "plump" and much rounder in shape with a broader chest, especially the hens. The roosters are much "stockier" - short and wide.. than the welsummers. The rooster's back angles downward towards the tail, rather than the flat of the Welsummers. Dorking hens also have a much larger comb that tends to flop over -these are just a few of the differences


if you google images for both and look at them side by side you can see that the coloring looks identical, but the shape is much different.