The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[estamets]

Welp. She's eight and a half months old, and my Wellie FINALLY started squatting. Hoping to post some egg pics in the next couple weeks!

 

[rebrascora]

Good luck. Hope it's a gorgeous dark speckled egg that makes the wait worthwhile.

The egg that I thought was my Wellie's turned out to be my Blue Marans. My Black Copper Marans lays a dark brown egg with a dull, slightly plum coloured bloom but my Blue Marans lays the shiny dark toffee coloured egg with speckles that I wrongly assumed was my Wellie egg. The past few days I have been getting a much smaller matt finish dark brown egg which is actually darker than the BCM egg. This afternoon I saw my Wellie go into the nest box and when I checked later there was one of those little dark brown eggs together with the 2 Marans eggs that I knew were already there and 3 blue/green ones from my barnyard mutts, which looked very pretty all nestled together! So the little, very dark egg is obviously the Wellie and she has actually just started laying last week. It has quite a different shape to the Marans eggs too. They are very round and almost impossible to tell which is the "pointy end" whereas this little egg is much more triangular shaped, if that makes sense ie a blunt end and a pointy end.

I just need my cream legbar x RIR pullet to start laying now, which should be green/olive coloured and my exchequer leghorn which will of course be white. Both are looking to be "point of lay" judging by their comb development and colour and they are checking out potential nest sites.

 

[Beer can]

My wellie egg from yesterday. Going to try hatching some out soon.

 

[estamets]

My wellie egg from yesterday. Going to try hatching some out soon.

Very pretty! Love the speckles.

 

[holm25]

Very pretty! Love the speckles.

X2

 

[HumphreyEggs]

I may get these to start out.

 

[AprilMayJune]

I love my 2 Wellies Amelia & Apple (we call her Big Apple). They have super sweet and calm temperaments. We love seeing the baby pics here, we raised them from when they were babies. Time flies, so take more pics of them when they're small! Reading this thread before (and even now), it seemed like they can take awhile to lay. I wasn't expecting any eggs till Jan. But they surprised me by laying at 5 1/2 months ! Here are pics of their eggs. For those who are wAiting, take a lesson from me & be sure they are getting enough calcium before they start laying. Amelia was egg-bound the first time she tried to lay. It was bad, And expensive. We were ordered immediately to provide oyster shells for the gals and chAnge their feed from grower to layer.

 

[oolyboolu]

Hi all I'm new to welsummers and I was hoping you could help me tell if one of my 13week olds is a roo or not. He has the same colors are my other very roo-looking ones but his wattle and such is like my girls and not red at all. What do you normally go by? I'm only a year and a half into chicken-ing and still learning!!

Here are some pics.. I'll try to add some comments to them

Here he's in the back with my other guy in the front

 

[HumphreyEggs]

Anyone live in Louisiana and have welsummers? Would like to find some. I already asked in the LA thread.

 

[aart]

Hi all

I'm new to welsummers and I was hoping you could help me tell if one of my 13week olds is a roo or not. He has the same colors are my other very roo-looking ones but his wattle and such is like my girls and not red at all. What do you normally go by? I'm only a year and a half into chicken-ing and still learning!!

Here are some pics.. I'll try to add some comments to them




Here he's in the back with my other guy in the front

I have a feeling that those are not pure Welsummers. Here are mine at 13 weeks: