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Garden Hens

Joined: 17 Sep 2012
Posts: 10
Location: Cheshire

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 8:31 pm Post subject:

SandraR wrote:

Thank you. Welsummers are on of my favourite breeds

I'd interested to know more about your Silver Wyandottes are they LF.

They aren't an easy breed to get hold of. I have been after hatching eggs to raise a few for a friend for a while now.

The SLW are large fowl and are beautifully feathered. A strange quirk is that their eggs are very round rather than oval shaped as usual egg shape. Some have a 'smoke' running through their feathers - a brown haze between the black and white, depends on the blood line.
Within breeding groups, treading can be very detrimental to the ladies, SLW have such soft feathering that balding soon appears, so either saddle the females or restrict the access.
I visit my daughter in the sw regularly, so let me know if you can't find SLW more locally to you.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 8:54 pm Post subject:
Hi Jackie, welcome in to Downsizer!

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 12 8:47 pm Post subject:
A belated welcome from Somerset! ETA: Really nice website, by the way. I like the Welsummer's bottoms

Ginkotree

Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Posts: 2956
Location: south west wales

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 12 11:45 am Post subject:
Hello from wales.

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 12 5:00 pm Post subject:
Sigh...trust Chez to lower the tone of the conversation...nobody ever talks of chickens' bottoms on here. Ever.

VM

Joined: 23 Nov 2007
Posts: 1748
Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 12 8:16 pm Post subject:

What a coincidence that I've just come back on here after a long gap and then find Jackie introducing herself!

I bought Vorwerks and Barnevelders from Jackie a couple of years ago and they were really lovely birds. Very sadly they were all killed in the summer of 2011 by a seriously delinquent group of teenagers, which broke my heart - but they gave me l lots of pleasure (as well as eggs) before that.

I've had Barnevelders before - having got interested in them through Chez on here, of course - and the ones I got from Jackie were great, very easy-going and easy to handle as well as being good looking. The Vorwerks were my absolute favourites though - striking-looking and full of character, very alert, bold and curious. And all the birds were strong and healthy and stayed that way until their untimely demise.

I'm looking forward to getting new hens from Jackie when move to Lincs completed. And I'm not on commission, honest.

Perhaps this should have been in Poultry after all...

Hello, Jackie, nice to find you here.

Veronica

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