Welsummer? Roo or pullet?

[Cspeir]

Back in May somebody ditched 6 chickens near the creek by my house in the woods. There was a dead one in the road that the others were refusing to leave. My husband lured them home with food and they gladly followed. However all but three died overnight due to exposure, stress, and dehydration not to mention my own ignorance about temperature regulation as they were not fully feathered I assumed they were young. This is how my chicken adventure began I now have a flock of 10. The picture is one of the birds that we found on the side of the road by the creek is it M or F? It has spur nubs that are getting bigger too.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Does look Welsummerish...but a lot of mix birds have the basic partridge coloring too.

Good news. It's female. Comb, feathers, tail. Both hens and males get spurs, though males typically bigger.

I wonder if the dead bird found was the broody mother? Was it a hen? She may have been brooding them in the woods somewhere and something happened to her. That would explain 6 young birds hovering by the dead bird.

Glad they found a safe home.

LofMc

 

[Cspeir]

Oh I should have said the dead one was a sibling.

 

[CCsGarden]

It's a wellsummer hen!

 

[bill3607]

I agree it is probably a Welsummer as long as it lays you a terracotta colored egg probably with speckles. However, there is a certain hatchery that is selling an Olive Egger that looks exactly like a Welsummer. It is a cross between a Welsummer and a Legbar. It lays a medium small olive egg sometimes with the speckles. I know this because I have a couple.

It probably is a Welsummer, but if she lays you an Olive egg you will know why.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

I agree it is probably a Welsummer as long as it lays you a terracotta colored egg probably with speckles. However, there is a certain hatchery that is selling an Olive Egger that looks exactly like a Welsummer. It is a cross between a Welsummer and a Legbar. It lays a medium small olive egg sometimes with the speckles. I know this because I have a couple.

It probably is a Welsummer, but if she lays you an Olive egg you will know why.

Yes. Exactly. I just got a rooster from a gal that thought she had a Welsummer but the hen lays an olive egg. It was in the Welsummer bin.

I also have several Cream Legbar Barnevelder mixes that look like her.

So likely a Welsummer or mix.

LofMc

 

[bill3607]

Here is what they look like. They look just like a Welsummer. However, you can see what they lay.