The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[pinkchick]

On Sunday I was attacked by Loki......he has alot of nerve. I was taking photos at the time and I guess that he thought I was a threat, so he jumped......not once but 3 times. I managed to get a couple of pics, one was snapped just the second before he attacked the first time. He managed to get 3 good jumps in before I got him pinned with one hand down to the ground. Will try and post photos as soon as I can. He's living on borrowed time with this attitude.

Nate~

I got some newer photos of some gals that show their backs. Will get those up here for you too as soon as I can.



Hope everyone and their birds are doing great!

 

[Louieandthecrew]

I am... Mine are!

I know I haven't posted on here in a while (sorry

) But, my Wellie boy had GROWN! Just had to show y'all hoy great he's turning out!
This is Maple Syrup

I love my Wellie

 

[pinkchick]

Hi Jessica!

He is looking good!

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Thanks

He is about sven months old now... maybe six and a half

He should start crowing soon! I still have my three other roos but I'm lanning on selling two of them. (I'm not scared of my top roo getting hurt! The younger roos, including Maple Syrup, are scared of Louie, my top roos, hen, Tiny. She'll protect him!

)

 

[EweSheep]

That Wellie roo has too many flaws on him but since you are not showing him, he would be fine for protecting girls!

Pinkchick, better keep an eye on Loki and for him to torture you, I ought to pull all of his body feathers and let his girls make fun of him!

 

[aceschix]

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Not that I want you to pick on her roo...(I don't) But help me out. I am learning how to spot these things, so can you tell me what you see in those pics as faults?
Truely just trying to learn - Thanks!

 

[EweSheep]

Appreciated it and I do my best in finding the flaws in what I see in the photo. I am sure sharper photos would clarify or dismiss the faults I see on the roo.

The colors are off the mark. See his neck feathers? They should not have any black in them, supposed to be gold colored with no barring effects..

Too much brown feathers in his chest (more than 35% brown, roughly) It needs to be more black with some brown feathers poking thru. The breeders are working on getting the brown feathers down to at least 10 to 20%. While Holland/Netherlands/UK, they like black chests with no or little brown feathers because it give the roo a "much cleaner look". The US standard like a little more brown feathers than the UK.

From the angle and I could be wrong, his topline is too flat.

His tail feathers and primary wing feathers showed bleached black to gray feathers. That is a serious fault and it shoudl not be in the Welsummer breeding program. Later down the line, you are going to get some odd marked white feathers popping up on their progencys and trying to weed it out would be very very difficult.

Here is an example of a bantam roo with his chest feathers and neck colors:

 

[Hens and Roos]

Thanks for the information and pictures to show the difference.

they are flightly little things-one escaped this am on me and it took a bit to get him picked up and back where he needed to be! Of course I was in a hurry and the kids were gone already for school..

tried to post a picture but can't get them to load eventhough it is in the right format... will have to try again later.

 

[Happy Chooks]

And here's a LF wellie roo, showing the chest coloring.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Bad, bad, bad Loki! Stupid boy, biting the hand that feeds him. I'm sorry Pink, I know you have worked so hard to build your flock back up and to have your boy be a butthead.