The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[flower]

Ewe......I knew that there was broody issues in your flock........Now I remember that the girls went broody when you did not have fertile eggs for them to sit on........sorry about the mistake............I got one Orp just to have in case I wanted a broody sometime down the line.

 

[Qi Chicken]

Just wondering what the chest feathering on a Wellie roo should look like at 18 weeks. Mostly black? Mostly reddish? Help appreciated. What is the best coloring for an adult? If someone can direct me to the Standard that would be great.

 

[EweSheep]

Mostly black with a sprinkle here and there with brown feathers. It should not be ALL black or ALL reddish brown in color.

 

[IggiMom]

I thought I had some pure Wheaten Ameracauna eggs who grew into nice little pullets but they obviously were not wheatens.

Well, now I know for sure--my Welsummer roo snuck in there and now I have two pullets who look sort of like Welsummers and sort of like Ameracanas, and they are laying odd little olive colored eggs. Small, though. I expect they will get larger soon. (The eggs, I mean.)

The Welsummer roo is a very nice guy, pretty, not aggressive at all. And although he does not seem to be hard on the hens, which is nice, he does apparently do his job ok.

Catherine

 

[Goose and Fig]

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OH I am SO JEALOUS!!!!! I 've hatched a few of those wellie crosses hoping for olive eggers- and they all ended up boys. Even ones I got from other people are all boys!

 

[pinkchick]

Hi Ruth, WoW! It has been a long time, glad to see you are doing well. Your birds look great and your speckled eggs are my favorite.

Iggi~ Congrats on your accidental Olive Eggers. I'm with Happy and jealous of you, I planned my olive eggers and the first eggs have been very disappointing. I have 2 blue AM pullets and 1 black pullet that I hatched out specifically for using in the Welsummer pen for Olives, I can't wait but must as the AM's are only 3 mos old.

 

[pinkchick]

Well my Wellies spent their first time ever out free ranging all day yesterday and everyone was perfectly fine last night when I got home. They had even put themselves to bed and the 2 girls in that flock that are laying even found it with in themselves to go back to the coop to lay their eggs in the nest boxes.

I have never let them out because I have a dog that has been known to eat my birds and I had neighbors with pit bulls that were allowed to run wild and destroyed my Welsummer flock several months ago, I am happy to report that those neighbors moved out and my dog has behaved herself for the last year and a half after tons of work with her, now she doesn't even look at the chickens. My goal is to be able to turn out each breed of chickens that I have on a rotation system weekly and or daily and no casualties. This morning when I went out to let them out again they were pacing the fence waiting to get out, I opened the gate and they were off.

 

[flower]

Hummm, I wonder........chickens are creatures of habit and they will anticipate going out every day. I hope that they do not go on stike when they find out that it is not their turn. Oh boy can't wait to hear how this works

 

[Lotsapaints]

My Marans and Dellies share an outside run and do fine with the every other day thing I tried to share it but the Dellies were pigs and the Marans would just round up his girls and not let them out so they fret at first when I let the others out and then they don't seem to mind. I will not trust my Jack Russel's

 

[flower]

Great answer. Since I never had that sort of option, I did not think that it could be done. As far as your Jack Russell, I have never had a dog that could be trusted 100%