[babe]

thanks to the new poultry suppliers thingy jiggy on here, ive found someone on the edge of our village who breeds chooks. (well up the road, round the corner and down a long lane).

just had a chat with a friendly fella and he's going to let me have some of his welsummer day old chicks when they arrive. how exciting as i darent get welsummer eggs for the inccy as they are too dark to candle.

so i get all the fun without the 21 day wait. sounds like perfection to me.

[Selkie]

Oh Babe, little fuzzy chicks

When are you likely to get them?

[babe]

Oh Babe, little fuzzy chicks

When are you likely to get them?

when the little boy chook plays piggy back with the little girl chick.

d'oh, i didnt think to ask, he said he'll call me...so will be a big surprise

[Country Bill]

Alot of welsummer eggs for sale seem to be very light in colour not sure why.

[babe]

Alot of welsummer eggs for sale seem to be very light in colour not sure why.

a bad layer will lay darker eggs, than a good layer in welsummers so i read.

the more eggs she lays the lighter they'll be.

breeders tend to only hatch the darker ones to produce hens that lay the darker eggs.

so its a choice of lots of lighter eggs, or less of the nice dark ones


does that make sense

[Foxy]

I thought the same goes for all dark egg layers - due to the amount of pigment that goes into the eggshell - the darker egg layers lay less over a season  so a darker egg-and the prolific  egg layers have less pigment so a lighter egg. Now I thought that was just until the end of each laying year???So does that mean that this time of year they are all darker??
We need Munty on this one!  

[babe]

yeah come on munty, we need the welsummer expert