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sean
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welcome aboard.

gythagirl



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from sunny Somerset

T.G



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello there, from the peaks

Nicky cigreen



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

welcome

SandraR



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Jackie Welcome to the forum. Great to hear from another poultry enthusiast.

Garden Hens



Joined: 17 Sep 2012
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

SandraR wrote:
Hi Jackie Welcome to the forum. Great to hear from another poultry enthusiast.


Thank you Sandra!
The more of us who spread the word the better!
Just had a look at your website, lovely, the Weslummers look in fine health. I'm hoping to start breeding Appenzeller Spitzhausen next year, can't decide whether to go for gold or silver....?

SandraR



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from a former Cheshire resident

Rusticwood



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from chickem and me in sunny Devon

Garden Hens



Joined: 17 Sep 2012
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Location: Cheshire
PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 12 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Jackie, welcome in to Downsizer!

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 12 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A belated welcome from Somerset!

ETA: Really nice website, by the way. I like the Welsummer's bottoms

Ginkotree



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 12 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hello from wales.

gythagirl



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 12 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 12 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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