The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[EweSheep]

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To the WCNA members, get your votes in!!!!!! If you dont, you lose!

Darn it, Nate, you sure have to TEMPT me LOL!

Good idea to post or label where your Welsummers came from....I've not yet figure the differences but it seems to be a pattern in certain lines, more than others.

Did a bit of work on the WCNA website, even added a pic of Lowell Barber on there. Thanks to Laurie to post a pic of him on her website. I need to find more pictures of the old time breeders and their stories.

 

[SFIcelandics]

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The deal is: 10% off the chicks(start shipping march/april depending on the girls). And if you order 25 of 1 breed, there is another 5% discount(so 15% in Jan in Feb), otherwise after Feb there will be the 5% discount on orders of 25 of a breed.

I ship day old chicks preferably, otherwise 4-6 week olds.

I will not have any eggs available until march/april as well. Until then it is too cold here in WI to have breeding pens and try to get eggs before they freeze, I pretty much have my girls stopped laying for the winter, only getting about 3 eggs a day now.

Here is a pic of my egg color, hope this works...

*HENS AND ROOS* on here got some of my eggs, along with alot of others on here... Maybe they can chime in... They are Pretty dark, and so far everyone has had a hard time telling the birds apart as they are all filling out and looking pretty similar, I love this breeding line/group I have!!!

Nate

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thanks for the info Nate.

 

[pinkchick]

Hi Nate! Welcome back and congrats on the VP! I am glad all is going well with you, I have to say I was getting a bit worried when you didn't post for a while.

 

[pinkchick]

Len~


I almost forgot.........THANK YOU for delivering that pullet!!!!!! You are the best!

 

[SFIcelandics]

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Yeah, I am back now, and have more time... Right now I have about 50 LF welsummers, and about 125 bantam welsummers!!! Next year is going to be a good year, and I think this years stock is improved from what I was breeding in 2010... That is what we all work for, right? - Improve year to year!!!

It is so hard to capture the egg color... Those pics were taken in July or so, when the girls had been laying since march.

When I sent me LF eggs over to the Netherlands, to the top breeder of welsummers over there he said that they are some of the darkest eggs he had seen in a long time, and body conformation was great, the only flaw that he saw was that the shaft of them was too light(which is what the standard calls for in the USA - but in the netherlands/holland, they have more of a cream/tan shaft rather than a white shaft)

Does anyone have any pics of the LF welsummers/or bantams that they got from me!? I have a few LF(about 10) that are 3-4 months old, otherwise most of them are 1-2 months old, which will be used for the 2011 breeding once I go thru and pick out my best of the best to increase my flock as I was sold out most of the year, they have been very popular!

Nate

 

[Hens and Roos]

Finally got the computer program loaded onto the lap top so I can resize the pictures. Here are ones we took of the chicks that we hatched from eggs bought from Nate. They were hatched in Aug 2010. At this point we have 3 girls and 2 boys.

This one is a boy: my DS(5) named him Coop:

This is one of the girls:

This is the second girl:

This is the third girl:

This is the second boy-he is developing slower then Coop.

We have 2 older Welsummer pullets that were hatched in April 2010 and the older 2 are lighter in back color than the younger ones.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hens and Roos...........Beautiful teenagers!

Nate.....I figured your girls were at the end of their laying cycle. I just don't see myself needing 25 chicks.

 

[SFIcelandics]

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Eggs would work as well, if you want some of those in 2011 sometime? Im thinking of seperating my welsummers earlier than the rest of the birds so I can get a head start on hatching them as they always sell so fast!

Nate

 

[pinkchick]

Hens~

Looks like you have a nice start with some lovely Wellies!