The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[estamets]

those are for sure wellie looking babys but i agree shes a cross of some kind..maybe a black australorp cross..unless you plan on showing her i wouldnt give it another thought tho..and in my opinion its the black feathered head that makes me think its a mixed breed..


i guess some breeders can give us birds with hatchery quality..you really never no what ya have till ya raise them ..i would think if the person you bought these birds from was a real breeder of wellies then he wouldnt have any mixed breeds in his breeding pens..altho your other birds all look good and this bird you say has taken a shine to you and you to her ..like i said unless you plan on showing them i wouldnt get to worked up over it..but i would let him[the breeder] know tho..

I think she's quite beautiful (and I'm a hardcore Wellie fan!). If she's sweet, breed doesn't matter!
(I'm facing the same with two sweet pullets we just picked up- labeled as Rocks, but white skin and pale legs make me think Marans. But they're so sweet it doesn't really matter what breed they are!)

 

[Happy Chooks]

What is it that makes you think she's not pure? Is it just the black feathering around her head? Also got any ideas on what she might be crossed with?

Here are the 4 of them as babies, not sure which one is which though. A couple of Australorps there too.


This is the best side on shot i've got of her, I need to get some better photos of her.


This is the roo... looks pretty pure to me? Although the black colouring on his chest and redish feathering on his body has taken quite a while to come through.


This is one of the other females, both of the normal looking females look pretty much identical, they're very hard to tell apart. They also look pure to me... hopefully i'm right!

Her coloring is off to be pure. She is very beautiful, but not pure welsummer. She will be a great layer for you. (all mixes are fantastic layers) I have my pure birds for breeding, but I also have mutts that are exceptional layers - and my eating egg customers love the variety of egg colors, from blue and green, to dark and olive as well.

It's hard to tell on the male whether he's pure or not at this age. His coloring looks a bit off, but not enough to be sure. The 3rd female looks like a pure welsummer.

 

[maddogdodge]

Thanks so much for all your responses

Yeah i'm not fussed about her being a cross breed, I already have quite a few cross breeds in my older flock. I'm not going to show her or anything so i'll definitely keep her. Australorp X sounds like a possibility. The breeder definitely had Australorps as well. They have lots of different breeds there, it seemed fairly well managed, but I can see how the occasional accident would happen.

The main reason I got into chickens was to sell the eggs, so I have quite a few random X breeds as well as birds bred for egg production. But I wanted some pure breeds as well, just because I wanted some, not for showing or how many eggs they lay.

So far my experience with Welsummers has been that they're lovely birds. Does every single welsummer lay the dark coloured eggs, or does the darnkess vary from each bird? I'm so excited for them to start laying

 

[ChickAdee317]

is she a welsummer or a brown legbar

baby stripes

 

[ChickAdee317]

I dont know

 

[ChickAdee317]

Btw love the purple egg!

 

[BrandyJK]

I dont know

It looks like she has white earlobes, if she does, then not a Welsummer. I don't know anything about legbars, but here is a photo of brown leghorns. She's beautiful either way

 

[ChickAdee317]

Maybe I meant leghorn....

 

[wny egger]

yeah i agree ..with the white earlobe ,its either a leghorn or a cross..shes still a pretty girl.i have a production bird i thought had favus when i seen white on her but it hasnt spread or caused any trouble .i,ve tried treating it .i think she thought i was crazy .

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i think the best part of raising chicks is seeing what or who they turn out to be ..the way they will look when full grown, the personality they have ..and of course the eggs they lay..weather its a pure bread or a mutt , it really doesnt matter..unless you planned on showing them.some of the most awesome birds were mutts...




isnt a legbar a wrestling hold..

 

[ChickAdee317]

Bahaha