[northernplan]

Hi Everyone,

We were given a hatching egg by my daughters godfather. All we know is that it was laid by one of his wellsummers as he only has one which lays the beautiful chocolate coloured eggs that he gave us. Any way it has now hatched but, to look at you would never know it had wellsummer in it! We have seen welsummer chicks and knew what to expect but that was not what has hatched out! This chick, although beautiful, is definately not pure welsummer(not that that bothers us in the least. If its a hen it will stay and be my 4 year olds pet to lay eggs just for her and if it is a cockerel it will go back to her godfather to join his menagerie!) It is dark grey with a white stripe running from under the bottom of its beak all the way under its tummy. Dark beak and grey legs fading to yellow toes. I'm sure if it is a hen it will lay some very exciting coloured eggs!

Any ideas?

List of potential dads:
Exchequor Leghorn
Appenzeller
Araucana (Lavender or Black)
Silkie (Various Colours)

[ANHBUC]

Could the Welsummer have stolen the egg off another hen?  Broodies often do that so she may have incubated the egg but it may not be hers.   

[northernplan]

Could the Welsummer have stolen the egg off another hen?  Broodies often do that so she may have incubated the egg but it may not be hers.   

Hi, Thanks for the idea but as I said in my post the guy who gave us to egg for us to incubate only has the one hen that lays the really chocolate brown eggs which this hatched out of and that is one of his welsummers. In previous years he has penned his rare breeds up into trios seperately, so he knows this is one of his two wellsummers eggs, but this year he hasn't bothered as he lost 60 young chickens last year to crows hence the query as to who dad maybe?

At 4 days old its wing feathers are starting to come through, mostly black but one or two white right at the bottom of the wings and black tail feathers.

Any other ideas? 

[ANHBUC]

No sorry, but it should be fun to just wait and see.   

Hopefully another member who has knowledge of the other breeds may be able to shed some light on your mystery chick. 

[northernplan]

It will be very exciting. Being on its own it is becoming very friendly. As mentioned before we are just so hoping that it is a hen so we can keep it!

[ANHBUC]

Fingers crossed for it being a girl then.