The Welsummer Thread!!!!

[Loghousemom]

I have a welsummer too! I believe she is about 14 weeks old now.

We have a flock of 5 hens and just added rooster that needed to be re-homed, and our Welsummer, Jewel, is the favorite chicken of all my daughters. Going to find a picture now.

 

[Loghousemom]

Jewel.

 

[faykokoWV]

Can I poke in here even though my little welsummer chicks are from the feed store? Or is this strictly a pure breed thread?

My first welsummers were from Ideal poultry - which may be the same as the ones your got from the feed store. I was pleased with the egg color from them. If you got them for layers then you should be happy with them. Just make sure and let people know where you got them if you sell eggs for hatching.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

are these pure wellies? The possibilities are that or Wellie x cream legbar. to me the hen looks like a wellie not sure on the rooster but really not sure at all.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Can I poke in here even though my little welsummer chicks are from the feed store? Or is this strictly a pure breed thread?

Absolutely! Welcome!

My first chickens were from the feed store, then as I added, I went with breeder stock. Still have my hatchery girls, they are 3 1/2 years old now.

are these pure wellies? The possibilities are that or Wellie x cream legbar. to me the hen looks like a wellie not sure on the rooster but really not sure at all.

I have no idea what a wellie/legbar mix would look like, but the pullet *might* be pure. It's really hard to say though, because even the olive eggers I made from wellies/EE looked like wellies with beards. I had to use my black ameraucana girls to get away from them looking like wellies.

 

[MissusC]

Thanks for the welcome all! I am definitely NOT planning on selling hatching eggs as roos are illegal in my suburban yard. These gals will be just for our enjoyment, eggs and comic relief.

Here are a few bad cell phone pics. I only got two wellies (I also got a buff orpington at the same time and we already had 2 Brahmas, 2 EEs and a Cochin- all 15 weeks-ish). The new babies are a little over 2 weeks old.

This is the sweetest little girl ever. She lets me hold her and falls asleep on me. So cute!






Don't mind laser eye kitty in the back there.

So a question for you welsummer folks, one of the chicks has a larger comb than the other. Does that mean anything at this age?

 

[EweSheep]

Missus, HOpe it is not a boy if he seem to be developing a larger comb than his "sisters".

Cooper, your pullet is a girl, appropriate colors. As for the boy, looks like a very bad example of a Wellie or some mix going on. Does he have a white earlobe?

 

[Loghousemom]

Thanks for the welcome all! I am definitely NOT planning on selling hatching eggs as roos are illegal in my suburban yard. These gals will be just for our enjoyment, eggs and comic relief. 

Here are a few bad cell phone pics. I only got two wellies (I also got a buff orpington at the same time and we already had 2 Brahmas, 2 EEs and a Cochin- all 15 weeks-ish). The new babies are a little over 2 weeks old.

This is the sweetest little girl ever. She lets me hold her and falls asleep on me. So cute!

Ours used to let us do that to her, then she grew up a bit and became a little less tolerant of being held. I keep hoping that as my kids learn how to behave around the chickens that they will come back around to being held more. I have 3 cochins and a buckeye as well, and really only the Cochins seem like they enjoy being held.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Missus, HOpe it is not a boy if he seem to be developing a larger comb than his "sisters".

Cooper, your pullet is a girl, appropriate colors. As for the boy, looks like a very bad example of a Wellie or some mix going on. Does he have a white earlobe?

I will look better today. My friend mentioned the female may be pure. I think the male is a legbar wellie mix that
she had a wellie pen and a pen with a legbar rooster 3 wellie hens and a partridge penedesenca hen

 

[EweSheep]

I will look better today. My friend mentioned the female may be pure. I think the male is a legbar wellie mix that
she had a wellie pen and a pen with a legbar rooster 3 wellie hens and a partridge penedesenca hen

That might be the reason why that Wellie cross roo popped up.

If the pair are FROM a legbar rooster with three Wellie hens and a partridge Penes hen, then your stock is definately NOT purebred. I would not call them Welsummers at all if that is the case.

If you still want to keep them, enjoy them for their dark eggers. It is possible they may lay a very dark brown eggs, may or may not have terra cotta tint to them.