Welsummer....roo or hen? PART II

[jasminty]

Having recently spent a good amount of time inspecting two of mine that were supposed to be girls and are NOT, I would swear that is a pullet! Aside from the spurs she doesn't seem to have any signs (that I have seen on mine anyway, I am no expert though!!). Her comb looks pretty red, like she is ready to lay. Is it possible she is hiding them from you? One of my RIR went through a phase of hiding her eggs in a bush (until I found where she was laying them and then she decided she'd stick the the nest in the coupe), but until my discovery I thought she was not laying.

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

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She is cooped, and there's really no hiding places. It's a perfectly square brick building. I have some litter pans in the corner for nest boxes, which my hens use. The outside partition is also perfectly square and has a little tree stump and some stones. Its perfectly flat and they're eaten all the grass out of it by now. I honestly dont know any place to hide an egg.

 

[Alabama ee]

She might put off laying for a while because it is fall. Mine are are 8 months. They layed when 20 weeks until recently. They are now on strike. No eggs.

 

[chicksum]

Definitely a hen. My little Wellie chick looked like a pullet right up till she developed long wattles and white feathers in the sickle. too many colors to be anything but a roo and now he is lording it over all.

 

[EweSheep]

Well if she does not lay this fall, it would be late winter (Feb or so) she will start kicking in. Like my favorite old Wellie girl of mine, she quit now because of her molt, shuttiing down for the winter and she will start back up Feb to March and lay non stop until October.

 

[NajmoNests]

Check vent spacing... 3 finger width between pubic bones is laying - hiding or eating them; 2 finger width - starting or finishing laying cycle; 1 finger width - non layer. Hope this helps you.

 

[newlyweds]

Are you sure on her age? If I were to guess I would say she's alot older than the guy you bought her from told you. With spur like that. I am thinking she might be 2-3 years old at least. That's just the first thing that pops into my head when I see her and that she hasn't laid. Maybe that's why he sold her. Sorry to say.

 

[EweSheep]

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Year old hens do not get spurs right away and YES two to three years old would. My SSH bantam has spurs and she did not get them until she was two and half years of age. She is now four years old and her spurs are more thicker.

My three year old Welsummer hen still lays an egg every day, she will be four.

Anyone else got spurs on yearlings and two year olds??????? Only roos would get spurs that young as a yearling.

 

[tellynpeep]

One of my Welsummers lays light tan eggs....

 

[EweSheep]

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Oh no! How bad is it?