The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[SidChick]

Need a shot from the front to see the breast feathers.
Wattles coming in? May take another week or two.

Here's the front to add to my confusion. Light chest, but wattles, yes??

 

[SidChick]

Need a shot from the front to see the breast feathers.
Wattles coming in? May take another week or two.

Forgot to add picture. Here it is.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Forgot to add picture. Here it is.

I'd say pullet. Cockerels have more black...

 

[MesMama]

Man my Wellie girls do not really like people We have one that's halfway decent, the others are pecky and really anti-social. In my mixed flock no one breed rules, which is interesting. I thought the Wellies would be top.

Any who- what are everyone else's Wellie hens like?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Man my Wellie girls do not really like people We have one that's halfway decent, the others are pecky and really anti-social. In my mixed flock no one breed rules, which is interesting. I thought the Wellies would be top.

Any who- what are everyone else's Wellie hens like?

Our welsummer pullets are the same. Somewhat timid but once holding them they calm down. Very vocal. My welsummer cockerel is much friendlier and always has been. I think our girls just need more interaction.

 

[microchick]

My girls are little prima donnas. Skittish, anti social, you name it except for one thing that really surprised me.

I recently had two Wellie girls wind up with bumblefoot, both of them on both feet at the same time. What are the odds? Anyway, I wasn't looking forward to treating them simply because of their personalities, yet once I had caught them, brought them into the house and plopped them down an Ice Cream tub with two inches of warm epsom salt water in it, they became little angels. Sweeties both of them. I wrapped them up in a towel (not together), laid them on their backs in my lap and they stayed there, sometimes talking to me, sometimes dozing as I treated their feet. I couldn't ask for better patients than those two have been. I laughingly told my husband that if that was all it took to give them personality makeovers, I would have given them a bed of nails to walk on when they were just fledglings. Just joking of course.

He thought maybe they were just enjoying the air conditioning.

 

[stryker]

Can you Welsummer folk tell me if this is a Welsummer cockerel?? He is 4 weeks, 3 days old. Thank you..!

Forgot to add picture. Here it is.

It is a rooster because of the comb and waddle is too large for a pullet at that age. The eye liner also stops before the ears from the first picture and hardly has hardly any eyeliner in the second picture. I am 100% positive that it is a roo by the comb.
He is a cute roo.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

My girls are little prima donnas. Skittish, anti social, you name it except for one thing that really surprised me. 

I recently had two Wellie girls wind up with bumblefoot, both of them on both feet at the same time. What are the odds? Anyway, I wasn't looking forward to treating them simply because of their personalities, yet once I had caught them, brought them into the house and plopped them down an Ice Cream tub with two inches of warm epsom salt water in it, they became little angels. Sweeties both of them. I wrapped them up in a towel (not together), laid them on their backs in my lap and they stayed there, sometimes talking to me, sometimes dozing as I treated their feet. I couldn't ask for better patients than those two have been. I laughingly told my husband that if that was all it took to give them personality makeovers, I would have given them a bed of nails to walk on when they were just fledglings. Just joking of course.

He thought maybe they were just enjoying the air conditioning.

Lmao. All my chicks love a warm soak and cuddles once they are away from the flock. Also that sounds like something my husband would say lol

 

[aart]

Quote: Agrees...... wattlage say cockerel, breast plumage says pullet......but the white tips on feathers say mutt to me.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

It is a rooster. The chest is a tad light for being a roo. The comb and waddle is too large for a roo. The eye liner also stops before the 

Here is my 6 week old cockerel.

And here is my pullet

We have another with a bigger comb but I don't have a pic from this age..