At a glance
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus
- Eggs per year
- ~200
- Egg colour
- Dark brown
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
About the Silver Duckwing Welsummer
A silver counterpart to the standard partridge: the duckwing pattern replaces the warm gold and chestnut tones with silvery white. Hens show a silvery-white head and hackle with a salmon to robin-red breast and a grey back finely speckled with black, while cocks carry white head, hackle and back contrasting a black breast with white mottling. Recognised in the UK standard but considerably scarcer than partridge; it lays the same deep brown Welsummer egg and underpinned the development of the autosexing Welbar.
Available clutches
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