The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Mudsow]

What I can't figure out is how they manage to flip the sand up onto their backs so precisely just by flicking their feet. Looks like a seizure though, then they just lay there, dead like, just to see if you're still paying attention.

 

[EweSheep]

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About a third less than the LF egg.

 

[pinkchick]

Hi Everyone! Hope you are all doing great! Sorry I haven't been around much lately....I got some serious catching up to do in here.

Chooks~ That darn girl!!!!! Geesh!



Put 6 Wellie eggs in the 'bator yesterday.

 

[EweSheep]

That's all right, Pinky....we get sidetracked once in a while!

 

[Muggsmagee]

I have 2 Wellie hens that lay a very disappointing PALE brown egg. Blick. I'm wondering if keeping them (as their type is decent) is worth the effort of breeding for eventual better egg color in future generations? Or would I just be setting myself back?

 

[tazcat70]

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I know nothing, so take this as worth that much...but I would add them to the laying flock and not worry about it. They would be wonderful showing birds, but for the breed as a whole, I would say I wouldn't breed them.

 

[SFIcelandics]

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The Amestien bloodline lay pretty big eggs for their size. About half the size of the largefowl I had.

 

[tazcat70]

My Wellie that I hatched from eggs from my killed flock laid her first egg today. 28 weeks exactly.

 

[Saltcreek]

Congrats Tazcat. I loved my first proud egg parent moment too.

 

[tazcat70]

Thank you! I was so excited!