The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[naturespace]

I sexed chicks by their breast color, & their Strips on their backs along with vent sexing .
Guess I did it to test out how accurate color sexing was?

In some welsummer chicks I was unable to tell their sex by their stripes,
 I found another way to  tell their sex was the males had a whiter color fluff in their breast.

interesting. i was going by what Whitmore farms has on their website. http://www.whitmorefarm.com/content/5091
in their photos the chest color of the male is whiter too.
all my chicks have the crisp triangle on top of their heads and sharp eye liner. The chest colors look the same too.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Can you always tell females from males based on the head triangle? I think i got lucky and hatched 4 females. I was told that some strains of Wellies it's not so cut and dry.

It depends on the lines. Mine are pretty darn accurate. And my oldest hen throws a lot of females, which is also nice.

 

[dfdesigns]

Here's my new little bunch... this is the first time I've had Wellies before. These guys were a slightly staggered hatch, so some of them are a few days older than the rest.

 

[naturespace]

here's my group. hatched on 3/3-3/4.
DF, looks like you have a good looking bunch too!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats to both of you!

dfdesigns...... looks like 1 cockerel (in center/back) and 3 pullets.

 

[Mudsow]

I have 2 bantam welsummer hens, last Sunday, we got our FIRST EGG! woo hoo. My question is.... when to expect another. Our previous chicken was a standard barred rock hen and she jumped right in at practically an egg a day once she started.

I haven't gotten another egg yet from these since Sunday. Just wondering what the norm is for bantam hens.

Mudsow

 

[EweSheep]

It varies. Some will lay everyday and some will lay every other day. My bantam Wellie girl, the most friendliest, hardly ever laid, either she is eating her own eggs or poor layer.

I have 2 bantam welsummer hens, last Sunday, we got our FIRST EGG! woo hoo. My question is.... when to expect another. Our previous chicken was a standard barred rock hen and she jumped right in at practically an egg a day once she started.

I haven't gotten another egg yet from these since Sunday. Just wondering what the norm is for bantam hens.

Mudsow

 

[EweSheep]

I don't know what to say here except this seller is blantantly defiant against Mr Morrow's wishes for his pictures to be taken off from this Ebayers list.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Welsummer...430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc357bf16

How would one report it besides Mr Morrow? I hope Ebay will shut it down quickly. The seller DID NOT ask for Mr Morrow's permission to use his pictures.

 

[naturespace]

There is a link to the right that says report item. Maybe that would take you to a place to report the miss use of images.

 

[EweSheep]

It had so many details to it which I have NO idea what to put down or to click on.