On the misshipped Wellies - Third try is the charm and I would simply do Express Mail AND write the California and Zipcode VERY LARGE on the package with her phone number on it! From what I understand on hatchery chicks, Welsummers may lay ok if that is their purpose, but this breed needs lots of work in the private sector, so don't get the hatchery chicks, but send for some quality stock from a small heritage breeder...
I must be confused here, because I thought that on the Welsummers, you could tell the pullets from the roos by their EYELINER and V shape dark spot on their heads??????
I don't know about Light Sussex, but I thought those would be yellow fluff/white birds with black markings. I'm getting 2 hens in full grown this weekend so I don't know what their babies would look like.
I guess I will have to go snooping on the internet and see what I can find!!
Got my mixed batch of eggs from Virginia 2 days early. They were only shipped Tuesday! Got the tracking number last night, here they were at the door this morning!!
All in great shape, Got in the following, all marked:
From SQ stock/breeders lines: 5 Australorp LF, 3 Wheaten Ameraucana nice egg color bluish, 2 Buff Leghorn, 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte (hope it hatches!!!!!!) 1 Black Langshan, 2 Egyptian Fayoumi and in the Bantams: 4 Barred Rocks, 2 Black Wyandottes, 2 Blue/Black Wyandottes, 2 Birchen/BrownRed Cochins
So scrubbing out the HovaBator, turning it on and getting it ready to go for setting the eggs tomorrow morning. That will be an interesting hatch!
Coming in Sunday will be 4 adult hens (1 broody Light Sussex on eggs (Welsummer, Ameraucana, EE) another Light Sussex, both from good lines and then hatchery Australorp and Golden Laced Wyandottes. They are to give me some eggs this summer and hopefully go broody OR teach my brooder chicks about life in the great outdoors.
With the 34 Welsummer eggs in my friends bator and the 18 hatchery chicks downstairs, I think I am in deep ____ and will soon be OVERRUN WITH CHICKENS.
Chicken Math happened!
Cheers all, feel free to send me helpful advice on all this!
EVENTUALLY, I would like to have the LF Wyandottes, especially show quality Golden Laced, been looking at the Buckeyes, HAVE the Welsummers now (eggs), and looks like I have some Ameraucanas so we will see how those eggs hatch out!
Bonnie in OHIO
