Some of them will lose some of the characteristic warm reddish partridge on back and wing bow. They become more normal partridge.
And you see often that the black peppering/stippling clumps.
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She has to show more black at the end of the hackle feathers. Furthermore the feathers of the hackle are nicely interrupted by the groundcolour
Very nice hackle. Look at the reddish coloured shaft. When you see this you are dealing with a real redpartridge coloured Welsummer.
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This one has a penciled breast and in the Netherlands it is a fault.
It is a German Welsummer and this is the way they want it. The description in their Standard is saying "the breast must be penciled".
We, the Dutch Welsumerclub, think there is a connecting between the penciled breast of the...
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I am sure that they are pullets, because of the line behind the eye. Welsumer chicks are auto-sexing, you can see the difference between cockerels and pullets on the first day. When they are completely dry from the incubator you will notice that they do not all have the same colour...
I was curious if someone would see it and YOU did!
The leg compared with the orange roset is an extreme leg colour, something we don't want in the Netherlands. We prefer the
Someone wrote the females of the Dutch and German birds have terrible leg color in both countries. Mostly the females which is the way it usually is in yellow legged breeds.
The following pictures are exhibition birds from the Netherlands and Germany. Take a good look at their leg colour.
UK Welsumer eggs.
Those were some of my hatching eggs.
I returned to the Netherlands with 56 eggs from two different breeders, Frank Clark and Michael Hart.
As you can see the UK eggs are browner than the Dutch eggs, but the UK eggs are missing the characteristic spots and splashes.