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    Creating the silver welbar

    Round 2! The incubator is on!!! So, product of Breading Group 1 is our F1 cockerel ‘Ellison’ (his mom is called Ellie). He is 5 months old and a rather large chap, who somehow finds himself in a domestically abusive relationship with 2 Welbar hens. Despite finding himself at the bottom of the...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    Hi everyone, I’ve not provided an update for a while so I will let you know the latest movements. We had another Breeding Group 3 hatch which again was fairly unsuccessful. The result was 3 hatched eggs which are 2 Silver Welsummer hens and one partridge cockerel (of no use). The cockerel is...
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    2 chickens looking unwell

    Yes, the dropped wing chicken has lost strength in its leg and is now quite uncoordinated. The wry neck bird is much the same.
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    2 chickens looking unwell

    Thanks for this feedback, apologies for the delayed response, ive been bed bound with Covid, but im back up and running now. We lost 2 hens last year who were paralysed in one foot, i suspected that was Mareks. it hasnt reared its head since then and i was hopeful it had gone but perhaps not...
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    2 chickens looking unwell

    Thanks and yes, have tried my best to isolate both
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    2 chickens looking unwell

    Hi everyone, we have 2 chickens not looking well. 1 chicken seems to have recoiled it neck, when you make it move she shuffles around with here neck back - see picture. The other chickens wing dropped a week or so ago, it’s now finding itself tripping over its wing with its foot, making...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    Update - the incubator failed on the Breeding Group 3 hatch, no eggs survived and on autopsy it looks like only 1 of the 4 was actually fertile... its hard to say, but i have put another batch in. None the less, Breeding Group 2 (Webar X Silver Welsummer) has hatched in the other incubator...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    In the incubator due to hatch next weekend i have 4 'project' eggs. These are from breeding group 3 - Gold duckwing Welsummer x Partridge Welbar. We are expecting: 25% Male 'gold duckwing' single barred 25% Male Partridge duckwing single barred 25% Female Silver Welsummer 25% Female...
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    I wish i could take credit for creating him, but he is an 'original' Welbar (i think). we live...

    I wish i could take credit for creating him, but he is an 'original' Welbar (i think). we live in the UK so there is a small amount of them knocking around, however as far as i know there are no silver welbars (large foul, there are some bantams) in the country.
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    Creating the silver welbar

    Breeding Group 1 - Welbar over Barred Rock We had 2 eggs in the incubator and both hatched, my Welbar eggs were far less successful (2 out of 8, looks like 4 of them stopped developing around 16-18 days). Anyway, i promised pictures so here they are. Although not perfectly sexable, Barrred...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    Thanks for your input, I started following your welbar facebook group last year after trailing through your old thread from front to back. I completely agree with you above, the most sensible thing to do would be to concentrate on the Welbar over Silver Welsummers, as they are sexable and...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    thanks, That is what I thought. So things are as follows: Breeding Group 1 - Welbar x Barred Rock (2 eggs currently on the heat) Breeding Group 2 - Welbar x Silver Duckwing Welsummer (not yet laying) Breeding Group 3 - Gold Duckwing Welsummer x Welbar (should have 8+ eggs on in 2 weeks)...
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    Creating the silver welbar

    I have 2 eggs in the incubator, hatching in 1 week. The eggs are from a partridge Welbar rooster over a Barred Rock hen. when this cross is done with a welsummer, the chicks are sex linked. Is this also Going to be the case over the welbar? Or is the extra barring going to change things? In my...
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    breeding better barring in Welbars, Legbars etc.

    Good to know, thanks
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    breeding better barring in Welbars, Legbars etc.

    So, we have a few Welbars (in the UK). Some of the hens have a fantastic barring, with clear barred marking through to the tail feathers. Some of the others though are barred, but the feathers are not as clear. I am hoping to improve the quality of the barred offspring and was wondering if...
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