Welsummer Chicken

     The Welsummer is a Chicken breed from the Netherlands. It originated in a small village named Welsum, in the eastern part of the Netherlands, and hence comes the name. The Welsummer was bred at the beginning of the 20^th century from local fowls in the area of mixed origins including; Rhode Island Reds, Barnevelders, Partridge Leghorns, Cochins, and Wyandottes.

    The Welsummer is a light, friendly, and active chicken breed, with rustic-red and orange color. They have single combs, medium-sized wattles, red earlobes, and bright-yellow legs. The standard sized Welsummer lays large eggs which are of a characteristic terracotta dark brown color, often with dark speckles.

     Welsummer hens are good layers (around 180 eggs per year), and occasionally go broody as well. The bantams lay a lighter brown egg but they lay quite large eggs for a bantam-sized bird and are great producers too. The Welsummer is available only in three different color-varieties, these are; the partridge (the most common), the silver-duckwing, and the golden-duckwing.