The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[EweSheep]

Nate!

 

[littlelemon]

I just had to post here becuase I am so happy today!

I FINALLY got an egg from one of my Welsummer hens! I hatched them last April and they are almost a year old. I have never had to wait this long for an egg before. For the record, I hatched some Buckeyes two weeks after my Welsummers and they also have not started to lay yet. Oh, happy, happy day!!

 

[grandmaof5]

What was the colour of your egg? picture?

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Congrat's

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yay! Congrats!

I really hope I don't have to wait almost a year!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

One of my three younger wellies laid her first egg on the first day of spring. She is 21 weeks old now. Makes me more hopeful that the one that disappeared is brooding somewhere in the brush pile. The other one was squatting today.
Here's a pic of her first two eggs

 

[IggiMom]

Why do you think she waited so long to lay an egg? My Wellies started laying eggs at around six months, and they are laying well now. They will be a year old in June.

I am not trying to knock your little hen, please don't think so, I am just wondering. Is it common for wellies to take so long to start laying?

I do know that the Heritage RiR hens often wait to about 9 months to start laying.

Catherine

 

[Goose and Fig]

My girls were about 8 months when they started. I think it had to do with when they hatched, and maybe in her case- when spring arrives where she's at.

 

[FortWorthChicks]

YIPPPPPIE!!! My one welsummer is a pullet!!!!! Im so happy. Yall are all so right. **Sigh** at least I got one welsummer girl out of the hatch. That and I think one cochin roo. I am glad they have eachother for company.

 

[littlelemon]

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I don't know!!!!!! It drove me crazy. I have 2 Wellies and 2 Buckeyes that I hatched out in April ( I sold the rest of the hatch). The rest of my flock are older hens that molt in the fall and don't start laying again until spring. I don't give them heat or light in the winter months. All winter long I kept hoping for eggs from my 4 pullets, I had counted on them to provide me with eggs through the winter, but no luck. Their combs stayed pink and I knew they weren't ready. It drove me totally crazy though to get on here and read about everyone's Wellies laying earlier than mine. The longest I have had to wait for a pullet to lay was about 35 weeks, and that was with my Delawares. I'll post a pic later. I am sure it is an egg from my Welsummer, it is dark and speckled.