Welsummer -> Silver Duckwing

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Looking for a breeder so I can get my hands on these beautiful birds! I will be looking to buy towards the end of the year. Any tips? No hatchery has this variety that I can tell.
 
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Maybe these will help: http://www.welsummerclub.org/Adverts.htm

I hope you find them.
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I am working on re-creating silver-based Welsummers here in the US. I have some silver cockerels that are 7/8 Welsummer and will be crossing those back to gold (regular) Welsummer hens this fall to get silvers of both sexes that are 15/16 Welsummer. How close these will be to the silver duckwings of the UK, I don't know yet, but a silver WS that is 15/16 pure must be getting close (at least I tell myself that, LOL).

I am also working on a barred (Crele) Welsummer, or Welbar, that should be strongly autosexing. So far the hens are looking a lot like Bielefelders, but lay eggs as dark as pure Welsummers.

I am in PA, so this might not be a lot of help in locating stock you can buy, but even if they are not directly imported by someone, we will have good ones here eventually, as I suspect others are doing the same thing, creating multiple strains to choose from (and cross to minimize inbreeding).
 
How is the silver duckwing Welsummer project coming along?

I know this is a very old post, so...

dheltzel said:
I am working on re-creating silver-based Welsummers here in the US. I have some silver cockerels that are 7/8 Welsummer and will be crossing those back to gold (regular) Welsummer hens this fall to get silvers of both sexes that are 15/16 Welsummer. How close these will be to the silver duckwings of the UK, I don't know yet, but a silver WS that is 15/16 pure must be getting close (at least I tell myself that, LOL).

I am also working on a barred (Crele) Welsummer, or Welbar, that should be strongly autosexing. So far the hens are looking a lot like Bielefelders, but lay eggs as dark as pure Welsummers.

I am in PA, so this might not be a lot of help in locating stock you can buy, but even if they are not directly imported by someone, we will have good ones here eventually, as I suspect others are doing the same thing, creating multiple strains to choose from (and cross to minimize inbreeding).
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ThatCityChick said:
How is the silver duckwing Welsummer project coming along?

I know this is a very old post, so...
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I perfected Welbars several years ago and have been selling them in both gold and silver. I get both colors from a mixed pen. Technically, you could call Welbars "Crele Welsummers", so the real color of the silvers is not Silver Duckwing, but Silver Crele. Here is a pic of one of the silver pullets.
 

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