Yellow welsummer chick? PICTURES ADDED

[McSpin]

Since the eggs are dark, they may have come from birds that look like a welsummer should - just carrying recessive genes for the other colors. It could be the seller hasn't raised any for themselves and didn't know they produced the off-color birds.

You may want to keep the best of them. A cross into a good looking line could result in more vigor, higher production, larger eggs and other positive traits. Keeping this line separate and putting it to a test could turn out to be useful. My best birds in regards to the above traits are hybrids. I don't sell their eggs, I eat them.

 

[becky3086]

Whatever! The point is that this person knew that these birds were not producing true---for MONTHS NOW, yet they were still selling them as pure. I don't care how it happened but this is not like an odd coincidence these birds produce yellow chicks that do not look like welsummers.

 

[McSpin]

I was only trying to give you a suggestion on how they might be useful. Sorry.

 

[becky3086]

No your suggestion was fine but if you had paid for the eggs, you might not think that having to have several pens to grow out an unwanted trait in a breed that should have been pure and also a breed that was producing eggs that you couldn't sell, was such a fine thing. What I imagine I will do with them is toss them in the mutt pen and leave them there because that is mostly what they are good for and if I do get a rooster out of one of the, possibly, pure looking ones, I will be afraid to sell welsummer eggs from him, until after I have hatched out several sets of chicks--that I really don't need or have room for.

 

[bargain]

Becky I have purebred grown Welsummer roosters for sale if you want one. I'm in Bowdon , GA.

We also have purebred eggs and I've never had a yellow welsummer.

Well, it was an interesting thread. I definitely suggest adding this to buyer feedback...This person should not be selling this as purebred. Certainly not fair.

Have a blessed and peaceful evening.

 

[becky3086]

Thanks, I will definitely keep you in mind when I have some room in my bator.
Amazing how hard it was to convince everyone but I bet, if it had been them who had hatched out the yellow welsummer, they wouldn't have been thinking "no big deal, it's recessive white".

 

[LoupGarou]

I'm not sure what to make of this thread . . .

 

[becky3086]

I am sorry you have eggs coming from this person. I hope you let us know how they turn out and I sincerely hope you don't get any yellow or light brown chicks in your batch.

 

[speckledhen]

I think this thread has run its course.