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You keeping all those babies????
The Welsummer Thread!!!!
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Of my 4 New Years Day wellie babies, 3 are pullets!
Not sure on the 4th yet, the chest feathers haven't come in yet.
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No hurry here, been busy here too!
Pinkchick! when you are done with the incubator, ship it to me LOL! Oh my hubby won't like that LOL!
Been making plans with Nate for my daughter's school, there will be an auction to support the school and help out the tution and the upkeep $$$$ for the school. They made a list of all the auction ideas and I thought under the "basket" section (food, soaps, bath treatments, etc.) and I thought why not get something for kids (and parents LOL), a basket of Backyard Chicken basket! I will buy the basket, fake grass, a new "Backyard Chickens for Dummies" book, a chick waterer, chick feeder, a five lb bag of chick feed and put in a gift certificate from Nate for 15 chicks to the lucky bidder!
THANK YOU NATE for your kindness of donating chicks for this auction! The person who is doing the auction thing for the school, her daughters are into 4H for chickens and horses and she will tell the others about this "special package". YOU ROCK!
If there are other things I can get from the feed store to add into the basket, let me know!!!!!!!
When I get things together I will take some pictures and get some feedbacks from the public.
Hogback, Welcome to this forum! Cochin378, you wont regret getting some Welsummers, they are better egg layers than Marans, even the breeders are working on getting the production going in their flock. Whitmore Farms are good but from what I have been hearing lately, their eggs are a bit smaller than large eggs but the color is the same as terra cotta and it can vary from bird to bird, whether they will have speckles or not.
No hurry here, been busy here too!
Pinkchick! when you are done with the incubator, ship it to me LOL! Oh my hubby won't like that LOL!
Been making plans with Nate for my daughter's school, there will be an auction to support the school and help out the tution and the upkeep $$$$ for the school. They made a list of all the auction ideas and I thought under the "basket" section (food, soaps, bath treatments, etc.) and I thought why not get something for kids (and parents LOL), a basket of Backyard Chicken basket! I will buy the basket, fake grass, a new "Backyard Chickens for Dummies" book, a chick waterer, chick feeder, a five lb bag of chick feed and put in a gift certificate from Nate for 15 chicks to the lucky bidder!
THANK YOU NATE for your kindness of donating chicks for this auction! The person who is doing the auction thing for the school, her daughters are into 4H for chickens and horses and she will tell the others about this "special package". YOU ROCK!
If there are other things I can get from the feed store to add into the basket, let me know!!!!!!!
When I get things together I will take some pictures and get some feedbacks from the public.
Hogback, Welcome to this forum! Cochin378, you wont regret getting some Welsummers, they are better egg layers than Marans, even the breeders are working on getting the production going in their flock. Whitmore Farms are good but from what I have been hearing lately, their eggs are a bit smaller than large eggs but the color is the same as terra cotta and it can vary from bird to bird, whether they will have speckles or not.
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Tell that little thing to start showing feathers!
Tell that little thing to start showing feathers!
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Yes do it! Whitmore's birds are great, IMO. I have LF cochins cochins as well, and they make a truely lovely mixed flock- especially in the winter when I let all mine run together. Great personalities & the eggs are all unique. I'll never NOT have wellies in my flock
Yes do it! Whitmore's birds are great, IMO. I have LF cochins cochins as well, and they make a truely lovely mixed flock- especially in the winter when I let all mine run together. Great personalities & the eggs are all unique. I'll never NOT have wellies in my flock
Yeah, that's right HappyMts, who COULDN'T resist a Welsummer! Can not stop with just one, gotta have at LEAST two or better, FIVE!
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Picture of a welsummer rooster that a lady hatched from my eggs - not the best pic, she sent it to my phone! He is inside on christmas having dinner as she loves him so much!
Nate
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You can have a mix of anything to get to the 15 - it is just a minimum for shipping reasons. But I dont have a minimum per breed like some people do.
Hope you get some wellies!!!
Nate
You can have a mix of anything to get to the 15 - it is just a minimum for shipping reasons. But I dont have a minimum per breed like some people do.
Hope you get some wellies!!!
Nate
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WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME!!!!!!!! You won't be sorry getting chicks or birds from Nate! I wish I lived closer to you so that we could split an order. His birds are just lovely and their egg color is totally groovy!!!!
Thanks for joining us! Glad to have another Wellie enthusiast on board!
Welcome, glad to have you join us, we got hatching eggs from Nate and are very happy with how the birds are growing!
THANKS!!! Glad you like them! I love my Welsummer LF - they are great birds, and lay nice big eggs, that are some of the darkest I have seen - they are as dark as my wheaten marans(or the wheaten eggs are as light as the welsummer eggs! LOL) Wheaten Marans need work on egg color, its getting there, but I by far love the wellie eggs!!!
Nate
WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME!!!!!!!! You won't be sorry getting chicks or birds from Nate! I wish I lived closer to you so that we could split an order. His birds are just lovely and their egg color is totally groovy!!!!
Thanks for joining us! Glad to have another Wellie enthusiast on board!
Welcome, glad to have you join us, we got hatching eggs from Nate and are very happy with how the birds are growing!
THANKS!!! Glad you like them! I love my Welsummer LF - they are great birds, and lay nice big eggs, that are some of the darkest I have seen - they are as dark as my wheaten marans(or the wheaten eggs are as light as the welsummer eggs! LOL) Wheaten Marans need work on egg color, its getting there, but I by far love the wellie eggs!!!
Nate
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That is ONE spoiled rooster!
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