The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Hens and Roos]

My rooster, Moose, is 3 1/2 years old now. His comb sure has taken a beating over the years with frostbite. I'm hoping to keep a son from him.

Good Luck, hope you get a nice one! Our rooster Tank is 3 years now and probably by fence fighting has broken a few toes so he walks with a pretty good limp....still treats his girls really gently. We were happy to see that we were still getting fertile eggs from his hens.

 

[Irishgirl]

I have a 4 week old Wellie roo and he is the sweetest thing. I'll pick him up in the palm of my hand and he'll snuggle down and just sit there and soak up the attention.

If I try that with my marans, they "scream" and run away.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Moose's fertility hasn't skipped a beat either. He is so good with the hens too. I'm certainly keeping him for life, but it will be nice to have a son from him "just in case".

I have a 4 week old Wellie roo and he is the sweetest thing. I'll pick him up in the palm of my hand and he'll snuggle down and just sit there and soak up the attention.

Awwww.

 

[EweSheep]

It just warms my heart that your roos are gentle with his girls despite of their handicaps! We need updated pics of them!

 

[Happy Chooks]

It just warms my heart that your roos are gentle with his girls despite of their handicaps! We need updated pics of them!

I can't get any pictures of Moose right now. He gave me a HUGE scare this past weekend. I went to collect eggs and noticed blood everywhere. Moose was covered all down his neck and chest in blood. I about had a heart attack. I had to catch him, which he didn't make easy on me. I finally got him and cleaned him up. The blood was from his wattles and the hens had been picking at them. I put neosporin on and isolated him for a couple days. Now his wattles are scabbed over, but he's not looking his best.

But oh boy was he happy to be back with his hens!

 

[Hens and Roos]

It just warms my heart that your roos are gentle with his girls despite of their handicaps! We need updated pics of them!

Here is one from this past fall- if you look at his feet you can see the toes that he broke.

 

[FlashPointFarm]

Welsummer Club of North America is having their first member only meeting on Sunday, 03/03 at 18:30 Central time.

Hope you all can make it! Here is the link for Paltalk.
http://register.paltalk.com/reg/lan...w|+pal +talk&gclid=CKTPqfHq27UCFYZcMgodGXsA7A

We will be posting a link to our facebook page that will take you do the meeting site. Please have Paltalk downloaded prior to the meeting so you don't miss anything. If you haven't yet joined, and would like to participate, please contact myself or Robin through the Welsummber Club website. We can get you instructions or send you an invoice via PayPal to get you current on membership.

On the agenda...
Regional directors. We will go over regions and vote in directors.
Logo ideas- cost of some of the ideas we have and are looking for more ideas to be voted on by members.
Breed meets, how to request a special meet if you have never done so.
National meet info- This is going to be a blast!
Member questions and ideas for the club

Hope to see you all there.

Trish Dusil
Welsummerclub at gmail dot com

 

[texasbirdman]

I've got Welsummers hatching out today. Two chicks are out with more on the way.

I have three Austrolorps hens that run with my Wellies and put four eggs in from them to fill out my bator. One of these were the first to hatch this morning. Black with white mascara and belly.
We've been throwing around names all day for what to call these Wellie-Aussie hybrids......Australian Summers, Wellstrolorps, when finally my wife says, "I've got it.....Awesomers.......nice!

 

[aggiemae]

Our Wellsummer didn't lay at all until she was 35 weeks old then a egg every two days for about two weeks and now nothing for the past 10 days...She is healthy and isn't egg bound just no eggs...

Any thoughts?

 

[Irishgirl]

The sweet little wellie roo I posted about a while ago died. I had a tarp wrapped around my greenhouse where I was keeping them and the edge was frayed with strings coming off, and y'all know how wellies are, always so curious, he just snapped it right up. Judging by the autopsy I did one end of the string got wrapped around his tongue and the other end wrapped around the grass and food in his gullet. As the food passed through the string pulled tighter and tighter until it was bending his neck in an S-shape. He was still alive when I found him, I brought him in the house and put him in a pen, by then he was gasping for air, but I couldn't see the string to pull it out. A little while later he started going into convulsions, then literally died in my arms.
I am kind of sad about it, he was one of my faves, but at least I have another wellie roo for my girls.