The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Nickeyo]

Hey, where abouts are you? We're planning to get welsummers so a chicken friend with some would be good

I live in the West Midlands, Worcestershire

 

[Weirdness555]

We're in Berkshire, near the Wiltshire boarder. You're a bit north of us aren't you?

 

[jenifern]

Hi. I am in Canada and have 3 Welsummer pullets and a roo. Very excited for them to start laying. 2 have already started to redden in their face and comb so I suspect it will be soon

Here is a pic of my boy "Willie"

 

[Nickeyo]

Um I'm west of you, about an 1-2 hour drive probs

 

[risk]

Hi. I am in Canada and have 3 Welsummer pullets and a roo. Very excited for them to start laying. 2 have already started to redden in their face and comb so I suspect it will be soon Here is a pic of my boy "Willie"

that's a very pretty rooster

 

[risk]

this is my welsummer hen Miss buttery. she is 5 years old.... around 3 years ago she when setting on guinea eggs and she raise 15 baby guinea until they was 4 months old..she wouldn't go setting on chickens and she only go setting on guinea eggs,,,, which is weird but at least she a great mommy hen.....

 

[miquwid]

ChickN good advice i would agree once she is out getting her own food she will eat less and be a healthier layer.

Jenifern gorgeous roo!

Risk maybe she just liked guineas better lol thats cute

 

[faykokoWV]

Hi there,

Just one thing popped out when reading this - birds can get too much fat around their vent to lay easily. I would cut out the BOSS - it tends to go straight to fat. I was reading on another thread where somebody had a hen that was laying fewer and fewer eggs and finally quit. That person was of the old school thought that when a hen quits laying its time to eat them (even though the bird was not that old), so she processed the bird and found almost two cups of fat around the vent area - and an egg behind all that fat. The bird could not push the egg through the fat, so it just left it there. She had felt the hen before processing and was unable to feel the egg or the fat at that time. This bird was also a pig on her food - and would eat and eat and was huge, much larger than others of her breed.

Perhaps in the winter time your girl was using the BOSS to supplement the body fat and using the energy to keep her warm, but now that fat is going to storage - which is in the back end there. Put her on a diet - let her get more of her food free-ranging and move that fat out of storage. Hopefully that will get her back in shape and lessen the chance of internal laying or blockage.

I would also ask - have you ever wormed her?

 

[Kikwi]

Hi. I am in Canada and have 3 Welsummer pullets and a roo. Very excited for them to start laying. 2 have already started to redden in their face and comb so I suspect it will be soon

Here is a pic of my boy "Willie"

He is positively gorgeous.

 

[salkxsj]

Welcome from San Diego.