The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[sheila3935]

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You know what? I am 52, and I am just getting started! I can work rings around the young kids at work. I sling 50 lb bags of feed all day at work and then do it at home. When I worked at Walmart we had a lady Maggie that is a door greeter. She is almost 90 years old and is at work everyday. I believe that staying active loving life and surrounding you with people and ANIMALS! that you love keeps you young. Im not ready nor think I will be for a looong time to pass it on. And hey I'll be glad when I can get senoir discounts will save me some money. Although I will admit being called Ma'am by younger people bugs me. I'm just Sheila forget the formality. My kids always say I will be the little old lady that says what she want will have blue hair and dress like Peg Bundy. I tell them ok so long as I can still wear my pink John Derre boots.

 

[pinkchick]

My kids always say I will be the little old lady that says what she want will have blue hair and dress like Peg Bundy. I tell them ok so long as I can still wear my pink John Derre boots

You and I MUST be soul sisters!!!!!!!!!

And BTW, share the love with the PINK John Deere boots....where'd ya get 'em?????

 

[pinkchick]

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Great hatch!

To bad I'm so far away, otherwise I would get a few from you! Decided to move the older 2 Welsummer hens and the 1 pullet hatched from them into our layer pen because of the off feathering pattern that showed up.

Thanks! I wish you were closer too....you could have all of them that Zanna doesn't get. We all know that I don't need anymore chickens. I seriously didn't think that this many eggs would make it this far. Total in lockdown is 48 out of 56 eggs set total. Me thinks I am going to have to build another brooder as the rest of them are all full right now.

 

[Opa]

I wonder how much hassle it is to import birds from another country. I know Greenfire Farms has done that with Sussex and given the price of the birds they are now offering it must have been expensive.

Fifty two was a very good age. It's only in the last year that arthritis has started reminding me of old injuries and abuses I put my body thru in my younger days. Recently, due to molting, I got my hair cut just as I wore it when I was a drill sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood. Now if I could only get the rest of me to look like it did in 1968 I'd be all set.

 

[sheila3935]

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You and I MUST be soul sisters!!!!!!!!!

And BTW, share the love with the PINK John Deere boots....where'd ya get 'em?????

I got my pink John Deeres at Rural King here in town by the way where I work.

Online the other night I found some purple ones marked down to 49 dollars. I was crushed when they didnt have any in my size.

 

[sheila3935]

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Opa I recently molted some hair too. Couldnt deal with it being long any longer.

 

[pinkchick]

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My DH says depending on how long you were stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, he could have been one of the guys that may have caused you to want to pull your hair out whilst you were there.

 

[Opa]

I was a platoon sergeant and field first for combat engineer AIT company from January til June of 68. They told me that I would be promoted to E7 if I re-enlisted and I seriously considered it but they also said I would stay in my current assignment for at least one more year. I liked Leonard Wood, loved the area, had lots of relatives only a few hours away, but I hated being a DI. My day would start at 4am and I wouldn't get back home until after 9pm with every other weekend off.

 

[EweSheep]

Cool Opa, the farthest my sis went in the Army was a E-4 Communication Specialist in Seoul Korea. You had it good!

 

[EweSheep]

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Java girl, you have been posting all over the Welsummer websites about your question and I think you are running out of options right now.

Like I said, get a hold of Mark Montgomery for a Gold duckwing or Silver Duckwing bantam roo and cross them with your Wellie LF girls. You would have to cull HARD that are bantam size, partridge size and egg color.

In the UK, the Gold and Silver Duckwings are not well received or widely acceptable. The Dutch does NOT accept them either and I don't think the Germans do either. The UK are having problems with the dispute of the Duckwings, getting egg color established, etc.

I will say it again, there are NO Duckwing Welsummers in the USA. Maybe in Canada if someone got some imports but you would have to deal with all the red tape and all that government papers and you better have a lot of money to deal with these kind of birds importing into US.

So if you want to create some Gold or Silver Duckwing, and you have the movation, time and money and do some HARD culling, it is doable. Otherwise, you will have to import some or call Greenfire Farms on the importation deal and see if they can import some for you. Mind you, it is very very expensive, roughly $1,000 per bird and money would be lost if you lose that bird. I would say you may have to go into five to ten generation to get some consisency without getting any throwbacks in partridge size or bantam size. It is recommended that you do not cross with an OE....those traits would be much harder and much longer to weed and cull out and getting the Welsummer traits back into the Duckwing project.

Would it be widely acceptable in the USA? Probably not. After all, we want to preserve the breed and the original color and the egg shell color as well as the functionality of the Welsummer.

I hope it answers your questions and good luck!