The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[poppyflock]

Just wanted to give you all an update - I posted a few weeks ago wondering if my Welsummer Sandy was a pullet or cockerel. She was about 3.5 weeks old at the time. At 7 weeks old, I'm now 99.9% sure Sandy's boy. So today he went to his new home on a farm with a friend of mine who has quite a few pullets right around the same age as Sandy. It was bittersweet but I'm sure he'll be very happy there! I feel really lucky to have found someone who was happy to let him join their family. Here are a few pictures as a reference for anyone wondering if their Welsummer is a male or female:

Sandy when we first brought him home. He was supposed to be a pullet - had a clear V on his head and dark eyeliner.

At 3.5 weeks, when I really started getting suspicious. His comb grew really fast and started turning pink at just a couple weeks old:

Again at 3.5 weeks:


Just a few days ago, at ~7 weeks old:


Again at 7 weeks:




Hopefully this might help someone out who's in the position I was a few weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who shared helpful opinions and advice!

 

[sasafras4u2]

Well after looking at many pictures on this forum I'm afraid my Polly that I bought as a pullet at TSC is possibly not a pullet but a Cockerel what do you think since you all have Wellies you might can tell me better. 1st pic is just a few days old. Then about a week and then 4 weeks.

And this is today at 10 weeks old
Do i need to change its name to pauley?

Well today Pauley began crowing...

 

[aart]

Just wanted to give you all an update - I posted a few weeks ago wondering if my Welsummer Sandy was a pullet or cockerel. She was about 3.5 weeks old at the time. At 7 weeks old, I'm now 99.9% sure Sandy's boy. So today he went to his new home on a farm with a friend of mine who has quite a few pullets right around the same age as Sandy. It was bittersweet but I'm sure he'll be very happy there! I feel really lucky to have found someone who was happy to let him join their family. Here are a few pictures as a reference for anyone wondering if their Welsummer is a male or female:


Just a few days ago, at ~7 weeks old:



Hopefully this might help someone out who's in the position I was a few weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who shared helpful opinions and advice!

Sure looks like a male, but...I don't think that's a Welsummer.

 

[ronnhill7]

I'm not so sure that he is a Wellie?????

 

[ronnhill7]

as for me, I think you did the best thing!
-ron

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Been working with my little pullets on eating Bindweed. They love bindweed...

 

[MesMama]

My Wellie cocks are pretty serious birds. Although they are not overtly aggressive, I would not have mine around children as they are very protective of the flock and quick movement gets their undivided attention. But like many breeds, I would suspect there are lines with more and lines with less aggressive cock birds. My cocks are also quite vocal with their crowing.

Beautiful boy! You don't happen to have a picture of him as a cockerel do you? Like around 10-15ish weeks? Curious to compare him to my Wellie boys

 

[SeattleSelkie]

Beautiful boy! You don't happen to have a picture of him as a cockerel do you? Like around 10-15ish weeks? Curious to compare him to my Wellie boys

Here are a few of him at 11 weeks.

 

[MesMama]

@SeattleSelkie Thank you! I have 4 boys and 2 of them look alike-coloring etc and the other 2 look alike as well but different than the other 2, does that makes sense? Lol! So I'm curious what they will look like when they mature, since their coloring is so different. Here's a pic of the one we're thinking of keeping, the other 2 look more like your guy-

 

[microchick]

My Welsummer hens have never been 'cute and cuddly' no matter what definition you attach to the terms but 4 days ago, while worming the flock, I noticed that one of the girls had a badly swollen foot and was limping. Yep, my first case of bumble foot. I was so proud....not. I didn't have any trouble catching the little girl. In Fact, she was a perfect angel the whole time I carried her inside and plopped her down in an ice cream bucket that had a couple of inches of warm, Epsom Salt water in it. She even acted as if she enjoyed 'soaking her feet', and I couldn't have asked for a better patient as I went about the business of removing the kernel from her foot and cleaning out the wound. I have been cleaning and rebandaging every day and today, for the first time, she kicked up a fuss. She flapped and screeched through everything except the foot soak. THAT she approved of. But it was a good sign that she was being cantankerous. It meant that she was feeling better.

Still I sort of enjoyed having a sweet, gentle Welsummer hen for a few days

. Just sorry as heck that she had to get hurt in order to let her gentle side come out.