The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[squirlbait]

Thanks so much! I'm am really curious to see what we end up with. Both are so sweet- I think that they're all welsummer, no cross. I have another chick that is a welsummer/americauna cross and I'm thinking hen with her.

It's like Christmas

 

[Happy Chooks]

squirlbait - top is a cockerel, bottom is a pullet.

 

[Dr Bjorn Netland]

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Yes, that has been my experience (but I live in the Pacific NW, where we have a cool climate). Birds kept indoors in an insulated, warm, bio-secure environment and never allowed outside routinely develop a much larger comb, and cock birds end up with a lopped comb.

 

[faykokoWV]

Yes, that has been my experience (but I live in the Pacific NW, where we have a cool climate). Birds kept indoors in an insulated, warm, bio-secure environment and never allowed outside routinely develop a much larger comb, and cock birds end up with a lopped comb.

I typically do hatching for myself in the fall, but I hatched in spring and summer this year. Maybe if I do a fall hatch this year, I can compare it to my spring/summer birds and see if there is a difference in comb size! this would be a great advantage to know for someone who is trying to reduce the come size in their flock

 

[EweSheep]

I typically do hatching for myself in the fall, but I hatched in spring and summer this year. Maybe if I do a fall hatch this year, I can compare it to my spring/summer birds and see if there is a difference in comb size! this would be a great advantage to know for someone who is trying to reduce the come size in their flock

Let me know if it works! ;-)

 

[EweSheep]

Unless you get Bantams. I have had 7 of my Bantam welsummers go broody this year. There are 4 of them right now on same nest.

Out of four I had, only one was broody but a poor mother. Not all Welsummers are created equal, some do and some don't.

 

[Nickeyo]

HI!! Im new to the chicken family   We have 3 welsummers that we purchased april 1st..  We were told they were a month old.  Does anyone know when we should expect some eggs?? Loving our girls!

Welsummers as with most chickens will start to lay at between 18 and 22 weeks old, so that's about 5 months

 

[mike184]

I have never had these before but I just received my eggs in the mail. I hope they hatch!!!

I love the speckled one in the top right

 

[chickadoodles]

Good luck!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Hatchery welsummers, yes. But my breeder birds never start before 24 weeks.