#welsummer chicken

[occaisional-chunkens]

everyones new favorite snack. its good because its very easy to move the spoon between bird and make sure everyone gets some, and peanut butter is more challenging to steal directly out of another birds mouth before they can swallow.

[ainawgsd]

Nine long weeks until we pick up our chicks.

Pictures from the Meyer Hatchery website

[kifu]

She's e+, not eb. She had a health hiccup where she quit growing for about a month when the first blast of heat tried to kill her, so she's small. But she's the duckwing I wanted all along. And she's growing again.

Her boy! He's laying here, but he's typey and mottled!

[qwigoqwaga]

I think I figured out the eggs! Top picture left to right: Clementine (Welsummer), Olivia (cuckoo Marans), Annabelle (Cream Legbar), Lydia (Prairie Bluebell) and the tan one in the bottom picture is Petunia’s (Swedish Flower).

Petunia doesn’t lay nearly as much. There were 2.5 dozen eggs in the fridge and only one of Petunia’s!

[the-barn-rat]

We’ve decided to retain this Dorking cockerel so he’s been named and his name is Count Tyrone Rugen of Florin, the Six-Fingered Man, as portrayed by Christopher Guest, Fifth Baron Hayden-Guest, in the Timeless William Goldman Classic The Princess Bride (1987), Based on his own 1973 Novel The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, the "Good Parts" Version

That’s all good night

[curiosityschild]

The flock!

The three in the back:

Daphne (welsummer), Delilah (welsummer), Pingu (barred rock)

The four on the left:

Fauna (easter egger), Flora (easter egger), Meriwether (speckled sussex), Eleanor (welsummer)

The four on the right:

Ella (easter egger), Elsa (easter egger), Maryanne (welsummer), Baby (golden laced wyandotte)

[makenna-made-this]

Yes she is! Or at least some kind of benevolent forest spirit that took the form of a brown leghorn after i stole her from the woods. Her name is Ivy

Her favorite past time is digging numerous little Ivy-shaped holes all over our property

Most autumnal creecher ever

[homeofhousechickens]

Oh mighty chicken parent, I seek thine wisdom... Are autosexing and sex links purely a hatchery thing, or have you seen breeders that produce them? I like the reassurance of the sex but want to avoid hatcheries.

Anyone can make their own sex links (even i have done it before! :D )and their are plenty of breeders for the autosexing chicken breeds my favorite being Legbars.

The easiest way to make a sex link is to either utilize Gold and Silver or the Barring gene which are sex linked genes. Hens can only have one copy of silver or gold (not both) and only one copy of the barring gene. There are other ways to make sexlinks! Like using skin color or sex linked chocolate. It's just barring and using gold and silver are the easiest since every chicken Is gold or silver and barred rocks are not uncommon.

It's important to remember that sex links do not breed true. This means you cant just breed your sex links together to get more of the same looking birds. A black sexlink is usually something like a Rhode Island or welsummer rooster over a barred rock hen. The cockerels are lighter and have a dot on their head while the pullets are black and will grow to have red leakage. Those birds wouldn't be able to produce more of themselves.

Autosexing breeds are pure bred breeds which can breed true. Welsummers for example are autosex and you can tell a pullet from a cockerel because the pullet will have very defined eyeliner-like markings and a very defined chipmunk pattern while the cockerels are more muddy and not as well marked.

Sometimes there is variability with autosexing though and some chicks may not look exactly as they should but you can still sex them with higher accuracy then just guessing.

This is what cream legbar chicks look like. The cockerels are paler, have a dot on the head, and don't have the same distinct pattern the pullets do

You can also use autosexing breeds in sex linked crosses as well. Like a legbar hen is still only going to give her barring gene to her sons if she is crossed to a nonbarred rooster.

Anyone can breed an autosexing breed or make their own sex links :)

[deepglownautilus]

For the chicken thing, here’s FR’s welsummer (now just named rooster) vs my hen vs the internet’s rooster. Yeah, it has the rooster coloring, and yeah it doesn’t have a rooster’s saddle feathers or spurs, but like. I’ll let you in on a secret. Chickens are super diverse in sexual dimorphism. There are hens who crow and grow saddle feathers and roosters who look like hens. Nature is funky. I’m honestly just glad staff picked endangered and unique breeds (Brahma and Cochin- though they are recovering, and Sebrights who the livestock conservancy org considers critical)

It’s not perfect, but like. What is man. And chicken owners should know that chickens are messy

Bonus of one of our broody hens :]

[vapor-vine]

hits the woah and turns the twstie cast into furries (feat. me and my besties’ ocs). technically part of an au, those who were human in canon get rounder/flatter faces like some styles of how people draw furries, while beastmen and fae get to be a bit more animal-ly

species in the below

Riddle - Brittania Petit

Ace - Cat (moggy)

Deuce - Dog (mutt)

Trey - Smooth Collie

Cater - Harlequin Rabbit (some cat)

Leona - Lion (uncertain which though)

Jack - Grey Wolf (some jackal)

Ruggie - Spotted Hyena

Azul - Octopus/Oriental Longhair

Jade & Floyd - Moray Eel/Cat

Kalim - Arabian Gazelle

Jamil - Arabian Cobra

Vil - Fantail Pigeon (some peacock)

Epel - Welsummer Chicken

Rook - Augur Buzzard (some fox)

Idia - Borzoi

Ortho - Cretan Hound (yes i know he doesnt really look like a dog in the doodles)

Malleus - Dragon/Dragonfly

Lilia - Vampire Bat/Vampire Moth

Silver - Fallow Deer

Sebek - Nile Crocodile/Lightning Bug

[thybrotherskeeper]

*It happily follows along, chortling the whole way*

*Crimson can be found in the living room, sort of just... standing in the center of it. He's looking around the room with his back turned to the hallway. His expression is focused with his brow furrowed, as if he's thinking through something*

[Azrael appeared on the top of the couch in a mass of dark feathers. They had certainly been spooked by something; their entrance not nearly as elegant as it usually was.]

[As if to prove as much, as soon as they had some actual footing on top of the couch, they proceeded to fall off as they lost their balance. They produced a particularly avian sound of shock as they did so]

- [Another Set of Eyes]

*The sound of the angel's fall definitely catches Crimson's attention. He doesn't make it past the hallway's entrance before he whips around to face the intruder, feathers puffed up and trident already in hand*

{What do you want!?}

*The words come out of its mouth before it actually processes anything. When it recognizes Azrael, its feathers settle a little, although it still remains pretty tense*

[morpo]

do you know what breed your chicken twig is? she looks EXACTLY like my chicken olivia!! (who i only know as an olive egger)

Twig is a Welsummer! Im not super familiar with which breeds make up an Olive Egger, so I don't know if welsummers are mixed in there. I can tell you that Twig lays dark, speckly brown eggs!

[kihaku-gato]

Ok time to scratch/vent crow brain now;

Things the Gato wants to has as a sorta-collection. It literally just lists Feathers, an egg and Anime Figures, cause brain said it’d have more than that for me to write on this list and it lied due to forgetfulness

First one- Feathers. Older me understands that legally best not to collect feathers that aren’t either hunting-game birds or domesticated birds, so makes this list scuffed as I only know a few birds that match that.

Male pheasant tail feathers. Cause lovely stripes.

Guniea Fowl Feathers, cause funky spots.

Peacock feather is actually one I’m not dying for weirdly enough, but wouldn’t mind as the top-off if I had other feathers, maybe I’d be more interested if it was from a funky colour morph peacock or something.

cutting in readmore cause this list is gonna be various the deeper we go

Fucking Sebright chicken feathers, either silver or gold morph tbh, and is the breed that always reminds me that there is prolly an untapped enjoyment for domestic birb feathers.

Plymouth Barred Rock feathers. STRIPES AGAIN!!! zebra chimkin!!!

Welsummer feathers. Neck or body cause wtf man, how they patterned like that. Is this a bird or a mosaic?!

Hamburg feathers. This is assuming that the feathers look like what I think they look like; white with black at the ends.

WE ARE SURPRISINGLY DONE WITH THE FEATHERS, not cause I wouldn’t mind others but cause I can’t think of any (the last two chickens were googled ones with me trying to find neat patterned breeds if it wasn’t obvious)

DRAINED EMU EGG. CAUSE GREEN AND FANCY AND THERES WEIRDOS IN THE ODD PARTS OF THIS PROVINCE THAT GOT EMUS

Anime figures since that’s the next one that crossed my mind, being most are expensive as fuck, I don’t see getting any unless I get super lucky. Not really into the ecchi/lewd types but the pretty/cute? absolutely

Gura Nendroid

Marine Nendroid (surprising entry since I don’t watch her but her pirate motif and colour designs hit the right spot)

Ironmouse Nendroid

Not gonna show pictures but like, most Miku Nendroids, Sakura, catgirl, any of the cute themed Mikus are a yes plz

Okayu figurine, cause catgirl bias

Chocolate/Vanilla nekopara figurines. Cause catgirl bias, I have not played the games (seeing streams of the games makes me want to play said games even less lmao). Azuki wouldn’t be bad either.

Googling pics made me realize there are a lot of cute catgirl figurines from various franchises. Many of those others would be cute too.

[qwigoqwaga]

This is Clementine. She’s a partridge Welsummer (the same as Penelope). I’m not sure how old she is but I’d guess 12 weeks or so. She’s been pecking on the little ones a bit and is content to just do her own thing. Hopefully she’ll become the leader and Annabelle and Petunia will follow her instead of hanging out in the coop all day.

[the-barn-rat]

Boys.

Birch, tractor supply Easter egger abomination and 100% good boy

His son and usurper Leg, who we’re pretty sure came from a Wyandotte’s egg

Count Rugen the Six Fingered Man, a Dorking from a fancy heritage breeder

Danny Devito (Daniel of House Vito), a light Brahma from the same breeder

[evemarieoftheearth]

I'm raising chickens. I had no idea how friendly and cuddly they can be.

I'm having a mixed flock of welsummer, barnevelder, cream legbar, cuckoo marans and paint white marans. RAINBOW EGGS!!