welsummer roo?

[hdowden]

i see no white what so ever, i do see the brown feathers around the ears. that is 200% pullet getting ready to lay

 

[Happy Chooks]

The earlobes are the red skin below the feather tufts.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wow! Your Moose is gorgeous. Absolutely striking! Thanks for letting me know. But now I'm *so* disappointed. Rats! Plus, I need to rename her. Promethius just won't work for a hen!

Thank you. I do love him so.

Where are you located? I have some spare cockerels if you are nearby.

 

[bwalden]

Pullet for sure

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Here's a side photo showing him with the rest of the flock. The hen behind him to the left is a roadie, and the hen to the right is a welsummer.

Yes, yours is a pullet.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

It doesn't have any rooster feathers.................because it's a pullet. Only pullets get salmon chests.

This is my rooster, Moose, at 6 months old.

Moose is beautiful!

 

[Mac14]

Thank you. I do love him so.

Where are you located? I have some spare cockerels if you are nearby.

The name of your rooster reminds me of something my sister would do, she loves Moose! I live in Nor Cal too! I would love to have sweet nonagressive rooster but my family said that a rooster is not going to happen because of crowing. :/ We have a neighbor that does drums all the time and that is more annoying than a rooster! Oh well.

 

[Coop Deville]

This looks to me like a "light" Wellie hen. I have one, too. Breeders don't like this coloration. For "regular" chickeners like myself it doesn't matter. My avatar shows my "normal" Wellie hen (the bigger one) and the one with the disfavored "light" genes (little one) as chicks. Both 100% Wellie hens, though. I'm pretty sure my light one also lays the "light" eggs with the spots, while my "normal" Wellie lays the classic terra cotta-colored eggs (haven't caught them in the act of laying yet!).

Pictures of all of the above, beginning about halfway down the page:

http://wcna.webs.com/apastandard.htm

I was so concerned about my "light" Wellie possibly not being a Wellie that I started a thread about it a few months ago. Turns out it's just this genetic variation.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Pullet!

 

[Spaniel Hen]

Thanks everyone for all the info - especially the coloring. She is a different color than my other wellies, which is why I thought, hoped, she might be a roo. Well, I'll watch for eggs!

I'm located in upstate NY, not close enough to pick up a very nice rooster... Rats again!