The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[McSpin]

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Of course that's on your monitor. Like I said, monitors are another story. Different monitors put out tremendously different variations of a photo. The one submitted for the calendar is very over saturated in color and contrast on my monitor. It all comes down to personal preference, based on what you see on your monitor. I'm not criticizing any of the photos, just stating my preference and explaining how digital cameras work. As I stated, I liked the photo.

 

[ChikieLyn]

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Now if she lays green eggs you've got a Craig's List best seller? What in the world are you feeding this chicken, and if I feed watermelon, will mine turn pink??? LOL

 

[Opa]

As most of you know I some how miscalculated the dates for the eggs that I had in the incubator. I put them into lock down last Tuesday night and it should have been Friday. On Monday I had one Delaware chick pip and then quit. At noon today I unplug the incubator and officially gave up. This evening the incubator unplugged was 101 and I took the eggs out and started opening them. Several eggs look as though they stopped development about day 10 or 11 while several were fully developed but dead. When I was down to 11 more eggs to check I opened an egg and discovered a live chick. I quickly placed it back in the incubator. I opened another dud and then another live chick. At that point I placed it and and remaining 8 eggs back in the incubator. I will go back out in a little while to check the temperature and then later today I will candle the remaining eggs. I never expected to find live chicks this late in a hatch. Keep your fingers crossed for me. Maybe I will manage to salvage a few chicks yet.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Good luck Opa!

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Good luck hope you get some that make it!

 

[vanalpaca]

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At least the water test at this point would have shown you movement and if a chick was live before you opened it. My late bloomers did not make it as they had not absorbed their egg sacks so rescuing them was pointless. Have to just let the incubator do it's thing.

I have 12 chicks and even though at lockdown there were 12 of yours, only 2 hatched. I'm now looking at those egg turners and seeing if I can devise a safety cover so chicks can hatch in place and not get stuck or tripped up. Taking them out and putting the eggs on shelves in the same locations did NOT work and I only hatched 12 total out of 39 in lockdown. So much for a 3 shelf incubator!

Good luck Opa, hope you get some chicks.

It is SO hot here we stayed in the bedroom with the AC on and I tried to go outside 3 times. Did mow a third of the front yard and came in overheated (handmower). heat index up over a hundred. Took the car with the AC to the farm and there was a hot breeze blowing. They all got fresh cold water and spent an hour or so spraying all their lower halves. Can't believe they are ok in this heat.

Well if we want to REALLY get into Reality and photos, we could go into a discussion of how the human eye sees color, how light refracts to make color and combine color, how two people looking at the same scene will not see the same colors. Not only are photos taken by cameras not reality, but what we SEE or THINK WE SEE isn't the same reality between any two people. Even FOCUS is off in most of us.......and then of course, there is the fact that our earth circles a Yellow Star, not a giant Red one, so the color that we see on this planet would not be the same color as the same items in another solar system with a different star.........................

Cheers
Bonnie

 

[Hens and Roos]

Thought I would give an up date on how the Welsummer chickens that my DD took to fair did at judging yesterday. She entered a cockeral(hatched Feb 2011), a pullet(hatched Feb 2011) who laid her 1 st egg tuesday just as we put her into the cage at the fair, a cock(father to the 2 above) and a hen(sister to the cock). There were very few birds in the Continental class, however she competed against her brother who was showing Campines.

So the first to be judged was the cockeral and he ended up with a pink because the judge found a few stubbs on the legs- think I need to have my eyes tested as I didn't see them and we looked everyone over-so a pink for that one. Her brother's Campine cockeral however won top blue and would go on to compete against the other 3 birds in this class for Champion and Reserve Champion. What was interesting was because it was so hot yesterday, they were trying to get all birds judged and so she ended up taking her brother's birds up because he was stuck getting his bantam's judged

Next came the Welsummer pullet and she won top blue so she would come back for the final picks in this class, her brother's campine pullet won blue(just not top)

The cock was next(I did post his picture many pages back), he got top blue too!
The hen was last and she also got top blue!

Now my DD has 3 of the 4 chickens competing for Champion and Reserve Champion against her brother who has the top blue cockeral.......

Wouldn't you know it her Welsummer pullet took Champion and her Welsummer hen took Reserve Champion for the Continental class....

so this means she has to bring these 2 chickens plus her Blue Andalusian pullet and Blue Andalusian hen back up when they pick the Standard Champion and Reserve Champion out of all the classes. Talk about juggling chickens- they did allow the parents to help get the chickens up to the judging row.

SO the judge placed all the birds and we noticed that he would place them in order of how he was thinking they should go- they did keep a space between the chickens that won Champion of the breed class and those that won Champion Reserve of the breed class. DD's pullet(named Sally) was placed in the first cage.... another pullet was in the second cage(this bird had similar coloring to the Welsummer but wasn't) and the rest were place from there, about 16 birds total. Now sitting in the audience watching this, it seemed to take forever but probably no more than 5 or so minutes, so back and forth the judge went between DD's pullet and the 2nd pullet looking them over several times and looking at feather and such, than consults the SOP and back he goes.....finally he picks up the mic and says that DD's Welsummer pullet is his choice for Standard Champion and the 2nd pullet is Champion Reserve- it came down to the tail feathers- DD's pullet was missing 1 and the other pullet was missing 2 or so....talk about a shocker! This is the 2nd year in a row that DD took Standard Champion in poultry at our fair(Last year her Blue Andalusian won)! This year was extra special as she had a big part in deciding who to breed together and to raise this pullet from egg on- she was on cloud 9 and then some.

I have to get the picture and will add the picture in a few minutes!

Here are 2 of the pictures we took:

 

[enggass]

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Now if she lays green eggs you've got a Craig's List best seller? What in the world are you feeding this chicken, and if I feed watermelon, will mine turn pink??? LOL

Green beer...

 

[ChikieLyn]

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Woo hoo! Way to go!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

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AEWSOME!!!! *hmmmm.....smilies don't seem to be working*