The Welsummer's can be sight-sexed at birth - female's have a distictive triangle on top of their head and clear eyeliner, on the males all these marks are very fuzzy - each of Buffy's babies have well defined, sharp markings so I think I just got 5 more hens! Yay... what luck!
Buffy went broody on me and was fully committed to hatching this crazy purple plastic egg I had put in some unused nest boxes to encourage the girls to lay there. I don't have a rooster so I got on ebay (gosh, you can buy anything there!) and ordered her some fertilized Welsummer eggs to set. I built a broody box with her own extra large nest box and tiny outdoor run while she doted on her new eggs and 20 days later she had 5 babies! She likes having her own private space and I'll like it when she gets off the nest long enough so I can clean it out. The Welsummer's can be sight-sexed at birth - female's have a distictive triangle on top of their head and clear eyeliner, on the males all these marks are very fuzzy - each of Buffy's babies have well defined, sharp markings so I think I just got 5 more hens! Yay... what luck!
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