Poultry Gallery - Welsummer Hens

The Welsummer is named after the village of Welsum in Holland, in the east of the country, although the breed was originally developed in the area along the river Ysel to the north of Deventer, Holland at about the same time as the Barnevelders (1900-1913). The Dutch bred it from the partridge Cochin, partridge Wyandotte and partridge Leghorn, the Barnevelder and Rhode Island Red. The Welsummer is a reasonable placid breed that is well suited to the small-scale, domestic environment.