Welsummer Imposters!

[keesmom]

None are Leghorns, not with those legs. #1 is your tan egg layer.

 

[JedJackson]

I think they are mixed breeds. #3 might be a pure red Phoenix hen, but the other two are Phoenix crosses, in my opinion.

 

[MarmaladeSings]

I am so stumped. They were sold by a hatchery as Welsummer pullet chicks. Some of the chicks did grow into Welsummer hens.

 

[MarmaladeSings]

None are Leghorns, not with those legs. #1 is your tan egg layer.

Good to know which one lays the tan egg. Would you expect #3 to lay white? Here earlobes are not as white as #2 but are light.

 

[GermanKennhuhn]

I agree, not brown leghorn. Wrong leg color.
You got them from a hatchery? That’s odd. I was inclined to think they’re mixes.
What hatchery did you buy from?

 

[JedJackson]

I am so stumped. They were sold by a hatchery as Welsummer pullet chicks. Some of the chicks did grow into Welsummer hens.

That is very strange. I don't see anything even resembling Welsummer in those three hens, so I have to think a mistake was made. The chicks would have looked similar because they have basically the same color pattern as Welsummers.

 

[MarmaladeSings]

I agree, not brown leghorn. Wrong leg color.
You got them from a hatchery? That’s odd. I was inclined to think they’re mixes.
What hatchery did you buy from?

I bought them last week from a neighbor who had bought them as chicks from Cackle.

 

[sourland]

They almost appear to be game fowl/light brown leghorn crosses.

 

[MarmaladeSings]

That is very strange. I don't see anything even resembling Welsummer in those three hens, so I have to think a mistake was made. The chicks would have looked similar because they have basically the same color pattern as Welsummers.

That us what I thought after I looked at the Cackle website and compared chick coloration.

 

[MarmaladeSings]

Here is a photo of the eggs they have been laying.