Quote: Welsummer earlobes have red skin like the face, comb and wattles.
The ears are covered with brownish feathers(hair?).
Sarahandbray's pics are not clear enough for me to see her pullet's earlobes...or they are too young for them to be big enough to see clearly.
I started with three wellie roos and planned on keeping the best. It wasn't hard to choose, the smallest of the three had the best body shape and bright coloration. Even though he was one of the smaller roos (only the polish and a white leghorn was smaller) the two other two wellies were the size of the RIR and dull in color, the red was bigger and I had two white cochins that were huge yet the one wellie I kept was the boss roo! When the others learned to gang up on him I knew they had to go into the freezer, didn't want any of them to rip out his pretty tail feathers like he already had theirs.
Your right I guess I don't know my chicken anatomy! I just looked at my BLH compared to my wellie, both have brown ears, but the leghorns have white earlobes, don't even notice lobes on the wellie. When I first looked at the last pic of Sarah's pullet I thought it looked whitish under the ear, but now I think it is just the pic. I would say they are all wellies now. That last pic the bird looks big and fluffy, not tight feathered like a leghorn, wellies are loose feathered. I'd say nice neck coloration also, two of my pullets actually had neck feathers closer in color of the pics of her roos.
