The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Is Rocky a Welsummer?

 

[bwalden]

Ye

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Is Rocky a Welsummer? Looks like a little wellie roo to me.

 

[bwalden]

Many people new to Welsummers often ask me how to sex them at birth. I found the below paragraph that I thought explains it pretty well.



"Welsummers have one additional, very practical quality. This breed can be sexed upon hatching. There are obvious differences between males and females immediately. Females have dark, clearly defined lines around their eyes, and extending beyond the eyes, while the same line on males is indistinct and blurry. Females also have a clearly defined dark triangle on the tops of their heads and males have a less obvious, much blurrier marking."

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Ye
Quote: Thanks, was hoping so. I love welsummer roos.

 

[bwalden]

Happy New Year BYCers!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Happy New Year!

 

[chicks are me]

Got an egg on new year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

[maryhysong]

Got an egg on new year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sounds like an auspicious start to the new year! I have one young runner duck doing an egg a day and an old Wellie x Buttercup laying a jumbo size egg about every other day. Waiting for the pullets to get with it, they've been red for weeks now. I did see one up in the nest box today, but no egg yet.

 

[OneCrazyCowgirl]

Sounds like an auspicious start to the new year! I have one young runner duck doing an egg a day and an old Wellie x Buttercup laying a jumbo size egg about every other day. Waiting for the pullets to get with it, they've been red for weeks now. I did see one up in the nest box today, but no egg yet.

Wellie x Buttercup? Sounds cute ;3 any pics?

 

[maryhysong]

Wellie x Buttercup? Sounds cute ;3 any pics?

This was taken in the fall while she was molting. She's prettier now with her new feathers and her comb is even bigger, redder and floppier. Looks like she's wearing a hat.