The Barnevelder chicks have the dark and distinct back color/markings that a Welsummer pullet should have. And now I'm gonna stop digging my hole.
Give me that shovel!I just keep digging myself a bigger hole, don't I?
Oh those are STUNNING!!! I hope mine are at least half as beautiful as thoseI've been waiting for you to report back.
When I went to close this thread of those early chick pictures you posted, I decided to take one more look at your welsummer "pullet". Just because i wanted to admire "her." And then I saw the circled chick. (The entire photo hadn't finished loading before I replied, but I didn't realize it.) I felt pretty certain the circled chick was a He. And was Mortified, even more so because I had just told you with 100% certainty "That's a pullet!"
Mortified, I tell ya.
You don't know how bad I wanted to go away and hope He turned out to be a She after all. But after staring a good while at the circled chick, I just couldn't do it. Figured i might as well admit my mistake right then and there, for the following reasons.
1) His eyeliner was more "blurry" than a typical Welsummer pullet
2) I couldn't see the top of his head in that early photo
3) But then when I saw the blurry back stripes on the circled chick....
I am glad you can keep him, and I do think he will make some beautiful olive eggs with your WTBs. Gonna leave you with an olive egg photo. (Easter Egger roosters x Welsummer hens) I hope your future olive eggs turn out equally beautiful.
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Welsummers!Oh those are STUNNING!!! I hope mine are at least half as beautiful as those
I always enjoy when people come back and update, because I have so many questions that I still need to learn. Especially the ones with what’s this breed or gender. For instance: are these Welsummers or Speckled Sussex??? Everyone seems split in half on the answer lol
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Yay! No more bad luck, that’s a relief. One less roo to keep (not these chicks, he’s older)
