Are these Welsummer eggs?

[armyman88]

Ebay bought eggs, seller had listed them as purebred Welsummers, however looking at Welsummer eggs they tend to be more darker brown or covered in speckles or a combination of both, they sure don't look like it, have a feeling I got scammed.

 

[armyman88]

Bottom picture is from the advert that the seller says is the breeding flocks.

 

[redinator]

Following out of curiosity . . . I thought about getting hatching eggs on Ebay, but most seemed a bit pricey without any assurances

 

[Anon112]

I have Welsummers who do, on occasion, lay a lighter brown egg. The darker eggs in your picture do look like what I have seen from my Welsummers from time to time. The lighter eggs, not so much. But my experience is relatively limited (I have 4 Welsummer hens).

 

[Perris]

this is what prize-winning Welsumer eggs look like

copied from https://poultrykeeper.com/chicken-breeds/welsummer-chickens/

I have a silver-duckwing welsumer from a highly reputed breeder of them, and her eggs are rather variable as others have said of theirs. Sometimes speckled, sometimes not, were dark terracotta brown but are definitely lighter this year than previous years; otoh she is 6 now and the colours fade over the season and the years. Her lightest is closest to the top right two in your photo.

So, none of those eggs strike me as the right colour for a pure bred welsumer; they would be 'seconds' if they were china or clothing for example. The hen's legs don't look very yellow on my screen either. Shouldn't they be yellow on US standard? they should on UK.

 

[McChooky]

I have two welsummers and both lay a beautiful dark brown egg with a hard shell unlike the others. The eggs are more rounded than any of the others ,less of an oblong shape.Bulging perhaps? No speckles!