When do Wellsummers develop their patterns?

[rebecca10782]

We have a three month old Wellsummer who looks exactly like our Buckeye. She doesn't have any pattern or color change yet. The Wellsummer pattern is so gorgeous, I hope it comes in. Is this normal for it to come in late? She had better be a Wellsummer

I don't have any pictures yet, I will get some soon.

 

[hcammack]

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Hmm not sure mine are 14 weeks and already have allot of patterning on their feathers.

 

[JanieMarie]

Can you post a pic of yours? I'm new to the breed but I have some that are just about a month old now and they have patterning (is that a word?) and seem to be what my inexperience eye thinks they should be lookin like. Here they are.
Pullet:

And cockerel:

 

[EweSheep]

This will be a pullet:

Sometimes you can tell by the sex around a month old, sometimes earlier to see if you got males or females by looking at the patterns. The black breast feathers tells you that the chick is a male while the female got salmon tan breast feathers.

 

[Opa]

Can you post a picture of your birds. Mine look exactly like Ewesheep's and was quite apparent at an early age.

 

[rebecca10782]

Your birds are so beautiful

This is weird, Pesca is 3 months old now and she doesn't have any patterning. She is a deep mahogany with a slight darking at her tail. I guess she is defective

Just kidding, I love them all no matter what. Well I will see how it goes, I will post pictures soon.

 

[rebecca10782]

Here are some baby pictures. She sure looks like a Wellsummer, but I am no expert.

 

[hcammack]

She sure does look like a wellie maybe she is just poorly colored I bet she is a pretty girl anyway

 

[rebecca10782]

She does have some very subtle stripes coming in on her neck now. I think she is a Wellsummer, I guess I'll find out when she lays an egg. Who knows, maybe she will develop more when she gets older. She is very beautiful though