| Item | Price Per | Quantity |
| Welsummer hatching eggs | $25 | Sold Out |
| Welsummer unsexed chick | $10 | Sold Out |
| Welsummer pullet | $20 | Sold Out |
| Welsummer hen | $40 | Sold Out |
| Welsummer cockerel | $20 | Sold Out |
| Welsummer rooster | $30 | Sold Out |
OUR WELSUMMERS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL LATE 2024/EARLY 2025 AS WE GROW OUR FLOCK
Welsummers are a beautiful breed of chicken known for their speckled brown eggs. They have great disposition, with both the hens and roosters being relaxed and friendly. Roosters have a black base color with red/orange colors across their bodies (necks are completely orange) while hens are a heathery brown color with flecks of golden in their feathers. Hens also have golden stripes down their necks. Welsummers have unique yellow feet as well! Males weigh 7 – 8 pounds and hens are around 5 – 6 pounds, making roosters fine table birds, although that is not their main use. Welsummers are mostly used for egg production, producing approximately 4 eggs per week (3 – 5) and 150 – 200 eggs per year. Welsummers eggs are a dark brown colored and most of them will also have speckles lingered across the shell. It’s a great addition to your rainbow color basket! To make Welsummers even better, this breed is incredibly hardy, faring well in both hot and cold climates. Their large combs help them cool down and they also are able to stay warm in the winter. However, keep an eye on their combs (particularly roosters) in case of frost bite when the temperate hit freezing. Welsummers are also excellent free rangers, foraging out far. They particularly enjoy scratching around in our compost pile.
| Egg color/size | large dark speckled brown |
| Setter | somewhat likely |
| Table breed | no |
| Heat tolerance | excellent |
| Cold tolerance | good |
| Free range | excellent |
History
Welsummers were developed in the town of Welsum, located in the Netherlands, in the early 20th century. They were crated by other breeds such as the Partridge Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rock with a goal of creating a beautiful bird who was a prominent layer and especially hardy to all climates. However, Welsummers remained very rare until the late 20th and early 21st century. Heritage breeds began to become quite popular, and so the Welsummer made an entrance to many poultry breeders all around the USA, earning recognition by the APA in 1991.