I picked up a pair of welsummers at the Idaho Bird Breeders show in the fall. They've REALLY grown on me as they are good layers (reliable, every day one egg per hen, good shell quality) and gentle, curious, yet alert birds.
I have no idea as to their quality, as I didn't get them ever intending to show but to provide some eggs for the table and for a neighbor, and I hatched some replacements this spring. What color eggs do you guys typically get? One of my hens always lays a dark egg, the other lays dark eggs sometimes, and others speckled, and on other days she lays a dark egg with a lot of whitish 'bloom' on it. I like the variety.
Curious, though,.. how many lbs do yours weigh? How long did it take the boys to get to an appreciable size (ie to be worth processing)? I hatched some replacements, and we all know that even at 50/50 sex ratio, there's always too many boys.
I don't have any photos of them on photobucket yet, but I am overrun with welsummer eggs as the neighbors are out of town, so I posted some eggs on bidbird.com, and I have pictures there.
I have no idea as to their quality, as I didn't get them ever intending to show but to provide some eggs for the table and for a neighbor, and I hatched some replacements this spring. What color eggs do you guys typically get? One of my hens always lays a dark egg, the other lays dark eggs sometimes, and others speckled, and on other days she lays a dark egg with a lot of whitish 'bloom' on it. I like the variety.
Curious, though,.. how many lbs do yours weigh? How long did it take the boys to get to an appreciable size (ie to be worth processing)? I hatched some replacements, and we all know that even at 50/50 sex ratio, there's always too many boys.
I don't have any photos of them on photobucket yet, but I am overrun with welsummer eggs as the neighbors are out of town, so I posted some eggs on bidbird.com, and I have pictures there.
