The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[EweSheep]

Hi all,
I'm looking for contact info for John Hall in VT. If anyone could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
Take care
Ivy

I have the information on John Hall but he does not want everyone to know. PM me why you want to get a hold of him.

 

[miquwid]

So it took me some time to decide on what I wanted to add to my flock and a Welsummer won over 2 others, so I got my girl on monday along with the rest of my newest gang. And OMG she is a trip already.



yup that's her she went nuts for a minute!!!

I will take more individual pics, they seemed a little stressed when I got them home more stressed that I have encountered before so I've decided to wait a few days, but we still handle them. I know I got some mixed ages and my breeder I talked about it and we will see how it goes worst off big girl will be separated just enough so that the babies can thrive. And Chunnel is from a fictional movie on Seinfield, I just thought it would fit her uniqueness!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Arrowchicken - the hens certainly look to be wellies. The rooster is VERY dark, and I am speaking as someone that has a dark rooster. Yours is much more dark than mine.

If you want to compare, here's my flock:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/happy-chooks-welsummers

 

[faykokoWV]

Thanks, but I think the photos are misleading. Because these are large fowl birds -- as big as my flock of barred rocks, and the eggs would grade as "large" easily.

Those look to be welsummers in a lot of ways. Ewesheep, doesn't a partridge rock would have a white earlobe. That sure looks like a classic terracotta egg as well. I see what you're saying about the feather pattern though. they also appear to not have yellow legs

 

[faykokoWV]

How good are Welsummer roos at defending and guiding their hens?

I think that depends on a lot of different factors. Mine usually run lol. They do call out when a hawk goes over though

 

[EweSheep]

Those look to be welsummers in a lot of ways. Ewesheep, doesn't a partridge rock would have a white earlobe. That sure looks like a classic terracotta egg as well. I see what you're saying about the feather pattern though. they also appear to not have yellow legs

I know....you got good points! I remember having seen some hatchery stock Partridge Rocks and they do either have white or red earlobes, and yellow and white legs........a real mess of a deal, for sure.

The egg, certainly looked like a classic terra cotta egg.

The hen didn't have "salmon" colored breasts too or three tone color of hen. I know there are different shades but it is too "radical" to be of Welsummers. The rooster has too much black, bleeding over areas of hackles, saddles and wings.

Welsummers DO NOT have lacings like the chest feathers of the hen pictured above. It MIGHT be a cross of Welsummer x Partridge Rock breeding. Who knows for sure? Or hatchery stock....


Happy Chooks, your rooster looks fine, colors in the right places. Look at your Moose's bronze feathers, from neck to back of his tail head and down to his upper wings....right amount of brown/bronze feathers while the roo above is way too dark.

 

[Anniebee]

Thanks, but I think the photos are misleading. Because these are large fowl birds -- as big as my flock of barred rocks, and the eggs would grade as "large" easily.

Sure looks like a good Welsummer to me. I have one myself - she is a fairly large bird. But then, I wouldn't think there is an exact cm by cm standard of measurements for any breed of chicken.

Oddly enough ( and don't get me wrong here - I am NOT suggesting for one moment your girl is anything but a Welsummer ) .... her eggs look exactly like my Barnevelders'
eggs only my BV's eggs would ( I would think ) be smaller than those shown on your post. . Darkish with mottled spots., they are.

My Welsummer's eggs on the other hand - and she has only just begun to lay - in Autumn ?? ... are not yet speckled, are a kind of lightish terra cotta colour. She has yet to develop her egg laying abilitiies to the full - but she's in there, doing her thing. !! I know which eggs are hers, as I often watch them when they are laying and 'purring' .... they give me plenty of warning with all the noise they make before starting to lay, so I usually go outside to see who is doing what. .

Having never had a Welsummer rooster, I cannot help you with that .... but your hen is a Welsummer in my opinion.

Good luck with your pair. They look very happy together, and that's a good start. Cheers ...........

 

[Happy Chooks]

while the roo above is way too dark.

That's what I was thinking too. Which is why I posted my flock, so the member could see the difference.

 

[bwalden]

Yes, these considered as Partridge Rocks. You are lucky to find a darker egg layer in the Partridge Rocks because they usually lay just brown eggs. The roo's color pattern is Partridge and so is the hen because of her lacings in her feathers while the Welsummers has broken patterns. Thank you for sharing this with us and enjoy them! I certainly hope one day you shall have some Welsummers!

I hoped some of you on here could help me out. I picked up the pair of birds below from a local person who advertised them as Partridge Rocks. But I think they might be Welsummers, as the hen is laying a very dark egg (as pictured). I'm not familiar with Welsummers though, so I thought I'd ask you to critique and weigh-in.

Picture #1 is the egg I found in the isolation pen that the rooster and hen are kept in, so I know it's definitely hers.



Picture #2 is a comparison of her egg with a standard brown egg from my flock of Barred Rocks


Picture #3 is the hen. She's a little rough across her saddle due to too much "attention" from the rooster.


Picture #4 is of the pair together



Picture #5 is of the rooster. What do you think -- are they definitely Welsummers or something else?






Here are a couple pics (not the best) but they show the chest and wings. Top pic is a pullet and middle is an older hen. Bottom pic of rooster ( note my molting hens next to him

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Your hen has barring or lacing that is different from mine. Your rooster also has a lot more black than normal. See mine below. Egg color is very nice though. Looks very simular to some of mine. Not saying that you dont have Welsummers or Welsummer mix maybe, she is laying nice eggs.

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

I'm a frequent lurker on this thread and am jonesing for some Welsummers. Anyone want to trade some eggs for anything on my swap page? It doesn't have to be right now, I still have to find out if I can borrow the 4H incubator again.