The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[stryker]

Hello! We are ready to start our backyard chicken adventure and are considering the Welsummer breed for our first chickens. Would you recommend this breed for beginners? Anything special we should know about the breed?

Thank you!

They would make a great beginner bird. The problem with them is they are addictive with those dark eggs. In my opinion it is the line that you get them from. I have both hatchery and from a breeder and they are nice birds..

 

[SeattleSelkie]

Hello! We are ready to start our backyard chicken adventure and are considering the Welsummer breed for our first chickens. Would you recommend this breed for beginners? Anything special we should know about the breed?

Thank you!

I have a heritage line of Welsummers and find them easy to handle (though not a lap chicken), excellent foragers in a free-range situation, non-aggressive to my other chickens, and daily layers of gorgeous large brown and speckled eggs. They are my noisiest egg-song singers however......luckily I live on acreage but if I lived in an urban situation my neighbors might find them a bit loud, if only once a day. I see no issue with them for new-to-chicken owners, but I have also heard of temperament variation among hatchery stock so I would recommend a good breeder's line if possible.

 

[Lyons chickens]

I'm thinking this 7 week welsummer is a roo. He has about 2" of black, shiny tail feathers and tiny little spurs starting. A roo?

 

[daxigait]

Can I jump in? What about my beat up chick. Cockrel?

 

[aart]

I'm thinking this 7 week welsummer is a roo. He has about 2" of black, shiny tail feathers and tiny little spurs starting. A roo?

I'm not sure that's a welsummer...unless it's just the lighting...but at 7 weeks and that red wattlege, I'd say cockerel

Can I jump in? What about my beat up chick. Cockrel?

In center of pic, yes, cockerel.

 

[Tatiana110]

I'm thinking this 7 week welsummer is a roo. He has about 2" of black, shiny tail feathers and tiny little spurs starting. A roo?

Looks like a rooster, but this is not a Welsummer. Looks more like RIR.

 

[Lyons chickens]

I'm thinking this 7 week welsummer is a roo. He has about 2" of black, shiny tail feathers and tiny little spurs starting. A roo?

We got our two Welsummers from a farm supply. Our grands chose them. One had the dark V and eyeliner. The one above had no color on its head. It had eyeliner. He was chosen because it looked so different from the other Welsummers. I think the RIR tank was right next to the welsummer tank. Interesting.

 

[aart]

RIR chicks don't have eye liner or chipmunk stripes....not sure what that is.

 

[Lyons chickens]

After looking at many pictures of both Welsummers and RIR cockerels I've determined that it is indeed a welsummer. There is nothing in my boy that I've seen in any of the RIR roos. I have seen a couple other welsummer roos that have the exact same patterns as mine.

 

[aart]

After looking at many pictures of both Welsummers and RIR cockerels I've determined that it is indeed a welsummer. There is nothing in my boy that I've seen in any of the RIR roos. I have seen a couple other welsummer roos that have the exact same patterns as mine.

Post his pic here....https://www.facebook.com/groups/welsummerclubofnorthamerica/