The Welsummer Thread!!!!

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Opa, that's because AARP sold their mailing lists to them to make more money off of us!!!

In Chicago, there is a place that will turn your cremated ashed into a DIAMOND!! I'd like to do that for my husband and wear him on my finger. He's afraid he would get 'stolen'! I'm thinking they could even laser mark it 'remains of ....." for id purposes. Don't think the thieves would care?

His other idea is to spread a table spoon of his ashes here and there, as vets, we are supposed to have free burial according to our contracts with the government we signed on enlisting. Now the cemetary says that the grave is free, if we want anything other than a tiny cement marker, we pay extra, and there is a $1500.00 fee we have to pay out of pocket, ' to open the grave'. Doesn't sound like the contract I signed. Back then, free was free.

Just keep getting up out of bed every day and working that body. When you stop, it stops. Then instead of skipping one work day in between, you're up to two work days lost. Me, I work hard a day then have to rest the next day. I find myself wondering why I'm not out there working on my projects. Then I move and it all hurts. I'm too young to hurt like this. I haven't even accepted that AARP invite yet, even though it's been about 5 years..
 
Took some pictures today of our 2 Welsummer boys-they will be 1 year in Aug. They weren't super into having their pictures taken
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This is tag #75
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This is tag #76
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Let me know what you think!
 
woohoo! internet is back up!
Pinkchick... 7of 12 that made it to lock down are out. still holding on to the other 5 for another day, we lost power on day 19 and some of day 20, but those little ones aren't being stopped.
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looks like i have a bit to catch up on.
H&R, thats a pretty nice set of boys you got there.
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I think as a whole we need to work on that white at the tail. Combs look good. Legs look kinda light, but i know its hard to get everything to show up right in pictures. I don't think i have the eye to judge type by the photos.
Hope everyone is having a good holiday.
take care
Ivy
 
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Those are turkey buzzards, a type of vulture, they are strictly scavengers and pose absolutely no danger to chickens. I would advise you you get old don't stand in one place for too long as it tends to confuse the vultures. Plus it disappoints them to see their lunch walk off.

Hens and Roos, nice looking birds. Good body type, posture and tailset good, nice comb and wattles. How much brown spangling is on the chest? It doesn't show in the pictures. The white on the tail is an issue but all in all nice birds.
 
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Those are turkey buzzards, a type of vulture, they are strictly scavengers and pose absolutely no danger to chickens. I would advise you you get old don't stand in one place for too long as it tends to confuse the vultures. Plus it disappoints them to see their lunch walk off.

Hens and Roos, nice looking birds. Good body type, posture and tailset good, nice comb and wattles. How much brown spangling is on the chest? It doesn't show in the pictures. The white on the tail is an issue but all in all nice birds.

Thanks! not sure will have to go and take a look and see if I can get better pictures.
 
I like tag #76, he is better than the first one. I like his wide chest. And his points on his comb however I'm not sure about the wrinkled part in front of his nose where his comb begins. The bad thing about this roo, is his topline which it is more of an U than a slope.

Oh yeah the white fluff, man, where did we go wrong on there??? Gotta get busy and cull those out of those offsprings!
 
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Those are turkey buzzards, a type of vulture, they are strictly scavengers and pose absolutely no danger to chickens. I would advise you you get old don't stand in one place for too long as it tends to confuse the vultures. Plus it disappoints them to see their lunch walk off.

Hens and Roos, nice looking birds. Good body type, posture and tailset good, nice comb and wattles. How much brown spangling is on the chest? It doesn't show in the pictures. The white on the tail is an issue but all in all nice birds.

Thanks! not sure will have to go and take a look and see if I can get better pictures.

Please do!
 
One more day of collecting eggs and I will fill one incubator with how ever many eggs I have. It probably will be 2 dozen and I see if I can't hatch Bonnie some babies.

I was just looking at Mapquest and was surprized to see that Decatur Illinois is not far off a route I could take later this summer when I next go visit my sons in Missouri. EweSheep would you like any of my birds?
 
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