Welsummer question???

[marytoast]

I have 2, 2 month old welsummer chicks. One has dark gray legs and the other has pink legs. Is this normal? Have I been HAD again?

 

[becky3086]

I got a yellow welsummer chick from some eggs I hatched. It also has dark legs. Mine obviously wasn't pure. Did you hatch these yourself or get them somewhere else?

 

[marytoast]

No, I bought them from a breeder. I tried the egg thing. I ended up with 1 chick and yes, it was a little roo.

 

[Opa]

Welsummers should have yellow legs.

 

[Kirtusjon]

Welsumer or Welsummer
FS AR Om PP box GO club
Red Partridge


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Once little known, but gaining popularity.
12%
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Standard:
6 lb/2.7 kg
Bantam:
2 lb/0.9 kg APA (2001):
Large: Continental
PC: Soft Feather Light


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Dual Purpose Developed in Holland in 20th century.

rich
dark
terracotta
brown

small single
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yellow skin &
shanks
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red mixed reports on
setting & brooding
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hardy; cold hardy
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moderately early maturing well adaptable to confinement or free range; lively, but more docile than flighty
Backyard bird with big brown eggs.
large

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

 

[TammyTX]

The legs should be yellow.

Here's a photo of one of my roos, Tiny Tim when he was about 9 weeks old. Excuse his deformed foot...and his extra short legs....BUT his legs are the Welsummer yellow of my others (I just don't have any photos uploaded of them).

 

[Kirtusjon]

Here are 2 of my moms Welsummers pullets @ 20 weeks

 

[marytoast]

Thanks. I have been had.

I will be contacting the breeder today.

 

[EweSheep]

maybe they are Brown Leghorns LOL!

Seriously, Welsummers should have yellow legs but will bleach out when they are laying. See my website for colors and type.

 

[marytoast]

I contacted the breeder.He said "dad" might be ameracauna

. He should have told me they were possibly mixed.

I was thinking of breeding welsummers. Begining with these 2 girls. I guess thats out. They are mutts. I already have mutt eggs. EE and BR. Oh well, I guess I learned a lesson. ASK before you buy.