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post #1 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:09pm
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Here's my two Welsummers. I got them at the same time and soon one had doubled the size and weight of the other but was the calmer of the two. That same one, paradoxically is more agressive and assertive. The other just made a lot of noise and was a whiney-butt which I figured to be the cause of her smaller size. The larger one tried to take off with one of my two-weekers this morning when I was getting them set up in their little run. So, I want to hear from you all..... pullet or cockerel? Or anything else you might notice. Please pardon the blurr, this was like herding cats.

Both (a couple weeks ago)
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/111750_img_0459.jpg

Both (today)
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/111750_img_0464.jpg

Side(s)
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/111750_img_0468.jpg

Top
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/111750_img_0465.jpg

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post #2 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:16pm

I haven't had a welsummer pullet but i have had a welsummer roo and he looked like this:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/83336_chicoryuno.jpg
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/83336_chicorydos.jpg
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/83336_chicorytres.jpg
then when grown he looked like this
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/83336_chicory.jpg
he is a bantam but that shouldn't affect coloring. had to give him away due to city laws, i miss the little guy.

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post #3 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:17pm

but i must say, those birds are awfully red. you sure they are welsummers?

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post #4 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:26pm
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mother o' chicks72 :

but i must say, those birds are awfully red. you sure they are welsummers?


They were sold to me as WS's. They look more like RIR's but I don't know enough to make that call so I just go by what the feedstore had them labeled as.

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post #5 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:47pm

They aren't Welsummers for sure, they are Production Reds and at least one of them looks like a roo.

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post #6 of 22
12/15/11 at 2:49pm

Probably RIR's.

My current animals are: 4 Barred Rock Chickens, Scruffy, Samantha, Gracie, and Georga, 4 pigeons, Zues, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena, and Nella, a Border Collie/Black Lab mix. RIP my four other chickens, Charrlote, Bern, Gnarly, and Angela.
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My current animals are: 4 Barred Rock Chickens, Scruffy, Samantha, Gracie, and Georga, 4 pigeons, Zues, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena, and Nella, a Border Collie/Black Lab mix. RIP my four other chickens, Charrlote, Bern, Gnarly, and Angela.
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post #7 of 22
12/15/11 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by RAREROO 

They aren't Welsummers for sure, they are Production Reds and at least one of them looks like a roo.


x2 The one in the last picture is a cockerel.

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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

My BYC Page and all the links within            The Piano Guys' YouTube Channel

~Her Passion for Poultry~

 

 

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post #8 of 22
12/15/11 at 3:09pm
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For the coloring, please only go by the first pic. The others were "auto corrected" by my computer's photo manager and are a lot brighter than they originaly were. Those are mainly for geting a look at the feathering.

Here's some wierd stuff-

when I first got them the looked just like every online image I could find for WS's. Now they really do look a lot like RIRs even without my comp's super-duper photo enhancement.

my first set of Ameraucana's were the brown chipmunk type and grew out to have nice stripes all in earthy tones, no beards and no puffy cheeks. NOW when I look up Ameraucanas they look totally different and I can't find anything like what mine looked like, even though, like I said at the time, they matched perfectly with the online images.

what happened? is this a regular thing that coincides with variations that the major hatcheries are producing? or am I just crazy?

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post #9 of 22
12/15/11 at 3:10pm
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Originally Posted by Lothiriel 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RAREROO 

They aren't Welsummers for sure, they are Production Reds and at least one of them looks like a roo.


x2 The one in the last picture is a cockerel.


Will you ellaborate?

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post #10 of 22
12/15/11 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by 123ChickieLou 

For the coloring, please only go by the first pic. The others were "auto corrected" by my computer's photo manager and are a lot brighter than they originaly were. Those are mainly for geting a look at the feathering.

Here's some wierd stuff-

when I first got them the looked just like every online image I could find for WS's. Now they really do look a lot like RIRs even without my comp's super-duper photo enhancement.

my first set of Ameraucana's were the brown chipmunk type and grew out to have nice stripes all in earthy tones, no beards and no puffy cheeks. NOW when I look up Ameraucanas they look totally different and I can't find anything like what mine looked like, even though, like I said at the time, they matched perfectly with the online images.

what happened? is this a regular thing that coincides with variations that the major hatcheries are producing? or am I just crazy?


if you didnt get the ameraucanas from a notable breeder of the breed then you most likly got ee's. with hatchery birds they will tell they represent the bird being sold which basicly means that the birds can have the wrong comb, color, leg color, ect.

one looks like a pullet the other a cockerel

i am currently looking for sultans for my parents they keep asking me if i have seen for sale (birds or eggs) if you have any please pm me thanks.

i am looking for more d'uccles please pm me if you have any available (eggs only unless you live close to me), how much for a dozen, what colors you have, and if possable please send some pics of some of your breeders thank you
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i am currently looking for sultans for my parents they keep asking me if i have seen for sale (birds or eggs) if you have any please pm me thanks.

i am looking for more d'uccles please pm me if you have any available (eggs only unless you live close to me), how much for a dozen, what colors you have, and if possable please send some pics of some of your breeders thank you
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