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laughingllama75

laughingllama75

Songster
11 Years
Feb 13, 2008
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Please tell me what you think of my blue cockerel. he was hatched in April....his foot feathering WAS there, but it is broken badly now. I figured out how that pen was doing it, but now I have to wait for it to grow out.
I think his wings are wrong, and he has too many hard feathers in wing and tail??? Also, today I am noticing a few possibly lighter feathers in the hackle.
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but it was the wrong lighting. I will have to look tomorrow. I am not planning on showing him, but I have dark blue hen I wanted to breed him too..... ??? honest opinions wont hurt my feelings, i want to learn. thanks guys!
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funny, the wattles and comb dont bother me....the comb is coming in pretty dark, especially for blue. the wattles look lighter, but the camera flash "helps" a little. these are fom last month, he doesnt have real big comb yet...but it is darker than the wattles. Hmmm.
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I love him, look at all the good things, Crest and cushion are awesome. I am not sure how hard wing carriage is to fix but he would be a breeder here. I have lots of little girls that would help all his faults and the body type is just great (IMHO) OOps you said experts, thats not me but I am working on it like you.
 
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He looks worth breeding to me. Like Jaynie said, His crest is nice and his comb and wattles dont look red to me. He has a nice short back. He will probably turn out some nice offspring but the only way to know is use him and see what you get.
 
He is very nice, but I don't see his comb in any of the photos ?

Don't worry about the wing feathers--they are shredded enough, even if more might be better. Tail is nice and rounded--I don't see anything wrong there.

Very pretty boy! Show him; breed him.
 
Good to know about the wings, I was thinking they were pointed down too much.....
I got this pic today of the comb, does this help?

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