Welsummer
Dual purpose · Netherlands · 🌱 Beginner friendly
From the Dutch village of Welsum comes a smart, personable partridge-patterned hen whose eggs steal the show: deep terracotta, often freckled with darker speckles, no two quite alike. Welsummers forage well, tame easily, and give a flock instant farmhouse charm.
Eggs per year
160–220
Egg color
Dark terracotta brown
Egg size
Large
Hen weight
5–6 lbs
Temperament
Friendly and intelligent
Broodiness
Rarely goes broody
Did you know?
Cornelius, the Kellogg's Corn Flakes rooster, is widely cited as a Welsummer — the breed's proud silhouette made it cereal-box famous.
Is the Welsummer right for your flock?
Expect roughly 160–220 dark terracotta brown eggs a year from a healthy hen in her prime — production dips during molt and the short days of winter, and eases off as she ages. Planning space? A Welsummer hen runs 5–6 lbs, so size the coop with our coop size calculator and estimate the feed bill with the feed cost calculator.
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