Welsummer experts "picture"

[Matt A NC]

Does not look like a welsummer.

My guess would be an Easter Egger that doesn't have a beard.

Matt

 

[scgamecock]

That's a very pretty Wellie you have Ewesheep.Remember this is a hatchery bird that came from Ideal through my feed store.Ideal does sell Welsummer's but she was in the BSL brooder and she looked odd so I took a chance to see what she was.It's no big deal but the more she feathered out the less she looks like a BSL.Her feather pattern maybe just a poor hatchery example of a Welsummer, who knows.I know that when these hatcheries send out mass amounts of chicks they sometimes get some other breeds mixed in the box.I also found a Black Australorp in this same brooder and she proven me correct on that one.I bought this pullet to be a BSL because of their egg production and there are a wide variety of color patterns on them.They are great egg layers and they are actractive birds too.I have some that are really red and very little black, some are mostly black with very little red.This girl is going to be big like most heavy layers.I don't think her body shape is much like an EE. I have a few of those as well and they have a more slender upright appearance.Thanks for the info guys, not trying to pass her off as a Welsummer if she's not but she is the strangestcolored BSL I have ever seen.

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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nope... go to my personal page-i have old enlglish black breasted red bantam hens that look nothing like her!-shes far too big to be a game banty.
but she sure is pretty whatever she is!

 

[ticks]

It's an EE, welsummers have yeller legs.

 

[Mahonri]

Either and EE or a Partridge Rock.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Believe it or not, that is actually a black sex link with more gold than black. Generally they only have gold in their necks, but in some cases the gold extends all the way from the neck to the base of the tail. I've had a few like that and they are quite beautiful. They lay a nice large brown egg.

Scroll down this page for some similar pictures of black sex links.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html

 

[scgamecock]

Yeah I have some that are more red than black but this girl is actually brown instead of red.

 

[Buckguy20]

She is colored somewhat like a Welsummer but the leg color is wrong. I have a friend who got Welsummers from Ideal and some of those had muffs.

 

[Rosalind]

Not a Wellie, I have hatchery Wellies from Ideal. While they are not quite as nice as Ewesheep's, they still have taxicab-yellow legs and feathering more of a cinnamon color than your girl there. Common faults in hatchery Wellies are more like a little feathering on the toes, snarly-looking heads, bad conformation, that sort of thing, the colors are usually correct. They do mature a bit early in my experience though; could she be half a Wellie?

Otherwise I agree with Chickerdoodle, could be a very brownish sexlink.

 

[EweSheep]

Hatchery bred Wellies are bad looking. Once in a while you would get a good one.

For real Wellies, get some from Mothergoose, SpeckledHen or anyone else that has NO hatchery bred birds except for Estes Hatchery which they bought out Harry Shaw's Welsummer flock when he passed away suddenly a few years back. I got four pullets that I will keep until they lay, if they only lay light colored eggs or non terra cotta eggs, then they will be automatically sold.

Most of my Wellies are from Calicowoods Farm, Lowell Barber lines and Mothergoose thrown in for a good measure