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Back to top Chris Kurzfeld Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Carmarthenshire Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:20 am    Post subject: Weeell, they are supoosed to be a mix of pure Welsummer and Welsummer x's (Sussex light, Bluebelle, Maran and Cream Legbar). One of the stripey ones definately came from a CLB egg cos I watched it hatch and was most bemused when it popped out looking like a Welsummer! The Maran eggs and 1 Warren egg didn't hatch (DIS) but there are 2 that look like SL x's and they don't have stripes. The others, although coming from different coloured eggs, all look like Welsummer chicks to me - be interesting to see what they turn out like . I did do some feather sexing at 2 days and there seemed to be 4 with even primary feathers (which I beleive are cockerels and if the colour sexing of the SL X is right then that tallies), 4 with uneven primarie and 2 with a mixture of both!!! One of my Brahma bantams has just gone broody so i am collecting a few Maran, Bluebelle and SL eggs to go under her (does 2 of each sound the right amount for her?). Back to top layla Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 588 Location: West Midlands Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:52 pm    Post subject: lovely pics sooo cute Back to top vanessa Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1267 Location: Correze Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:53 pm    Post subject: Female CLB chicks are striped like Welsummer chicks, but the colour of the CLB is a bit duller. You could only tell this with the 2 different chicks side by side really. Back to top Chris Kurzfeld Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Carmarthenshire Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:03 pm    Post subject: Didn't know that Vanessa, no wonder they look the same . Back to top vanessa Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1267 Location: Correze Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:14 pm    Post subject: So, if you have pure Welsummers in there, too, you'll be able to see the difference. Back to top NannyP Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 11580 Location: 86310 Nr St Savin Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:27 pm    Post subject: Lovely clear photo...I reckon the chick dead centre, not touching any other chick is the Wellie x CLB? Back to top JC Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 1099 Location: Sussex Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:33 pm    Post subject: Nice, stripey chicks! Cant wait to hatch my own! Back to top Chris Kurzfeld Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Carmarthenshire Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:02 pm    Post subject: Quote: I reckon the chick dead centre, not touching any other chick is the Wellie x CLB? Flippin eck NannyP you've got good eyesight - how on earth can you tell the difference? I've compared them all and find that one of the stripy ones has slightly different colour down to the others. Some time ago i got talking to a Welsummer breeder who told me you could sex Welsummers by the width of the stripe on the head wider stripes was one and narrower the other - unfortunately I can't remember which way round it was . Anyone else heard this? The 2 Light Sussex X's are, I think, one of each - one is getting white/cream wing feathers and the other is much darker. The photo was taken not long after I had taken the last 2 out of the incubator, I do have more and will post them when I can work out out to retrieve them from my photo files and put them into my new photobucket album. Back to top Muddiwarx Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 101 Location: Nr Manchester, UK Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:57 pm    Post subject: Ohhh they are so cute!!!!! Back to top CP Moderator Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 16087 Location: Hampshire Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:17 am    Post subject: Yes there is supposed to be a way of sexing Welsummers by the stripes but I can't remember which way either, without looking it up. It was in a past issue of PP magazine. Back to top Chris Kurzfeld Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 1638 Location: Carmarthenshire Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:53 am    Post subject: Last years Welsummer hatch, eggs from a friend not mine, produced 5 chicks - 4 with dark stripes and one with chocolate brown stripes, that one was Jacob the cockerel the rest were pullets. But it was the width of the stripes on the head this chap was talking about not the colour. This new hatch does have a difference - some are definately narrower than others. 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