The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[faykokoWV]

Babyrnic

my first Welsummers were from Ideal hatchery. They may not be up to breed standard on coloring and body shape, my wellie from ideal laid a very dark egg and layed almost daily.

 

[pinkchick]

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CUTE!!!!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

Ok Wellie friends....our dear BEESONG needs all the good shipping and hatching vibes that we can muster up and send her direction. The eggs I shipped to her on Tuesday morning were accidentally mis-sorted at the main sorting facility here in the PNW after leaving the post office I ship from ( I ship from my neighboring towns P.O. because they have 2 trucks that go out 2x a day for Seattle and Portland and my little P.O. does not)...well then they were sent back to that post office yesterday morning, then sent back to Portland Oregon for sorting and then shipped back to my Post Office in the town I live in.....but the PostMaster or Mistress here in my town was gracious enough to call Beesong to let her know that her package had arrived and that she could come in and pick it up.

Hmmm...her CALIFORNIA address and CALIFORNIA phone # were on the box. I don't understand how they missed the California thing..but anyway...the PostMaster from the P.O. that I ship from is going to personally drive over and pick up the box and ship in Express mail to Beesong for delivery tomorrow morning. With all the extra handling we need as many good vibes and happy thoughts going out to those eggs as we can get or she is going to go get hatchery Welsummers at the end of the month from the feed store.

No offense what so ever meant to anyone that has hatchery Wellies or chickens........nothing wrong with hatchery birds...it's just her second try with Wellie eggs from me.



So Ms. Beesong.....here's all the luck I can gather up for you:

Uh-Oh....I think BYC may temporarily be out of good luck smilies now. Sorry Nifty!

 

[beesong]

You're too sweet, Pinkchick! I do seem to have very bad post office karma, eh? Maybe they're racking up frequent flyer miles for me............

 

[vanalpaca]

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

 

[vanalpaca]

Here is the link with a photo of the Light Sussex chicks and they are looking pretty white to me....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=354438

 

[EweSheep]

Beesong, LOTS of good luck sent your way!

Got a nice email from Nate, he is so busy as ever with his landscaping job, the farm progress and busy busy busy!

He thanks all of you and when he gets a spot, he will be coming in on BYC to let you know he survived!

 

[vanalpaca]

Here is another link with photos discussing the welsummer chicks.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=315145

good luck figuring it all out!

 

[Happy Chooks]

HUGE good luck to you Beesong!!!!!!!!

Ewesheep......glad to hear Nate is doing well.

 

[beesong]

Thanks for the good wishes, folks. I really have about had it with the post office.