Angelwing genetic or nutritional?

[amazondoc]

There's one page about angel wing with pics (not very good ones) here:

http://www.carolinecrockeroriginals.co.uk/sheldon_pages/The_ducklings/angel_wing_condition.htm

And there's a pic of dramatic angel wing here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Wing

 

[wilds of pa]

Here's a small page at feathersite
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Health/Def/angelwing.html

more
http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/SilkieWings.html

more reading,
angel wing/slipped wing
http://www.freewebs.com/cottage_rose_birdsnblossoms/angelwing.htm

and more, very good one for water fowl
http://www.metzerfarms.com/angel.htm#

more reading on page 13 twisted wing
http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf/A3311 1.pdf

 

[froggie71]

I still can't figure if it's genetic or feed. But I found it quite interesting when we recently went to a wildlife refuge and found quite a few Canada geese with extreme angelwing. So that confused me even more.

. Factor in I never knew what angelwing even was until I read about it on this site. Now we have had to deal with it. None of my original ducks have angelwing, but 1 of their babies got it. Again

 

[Dustin Biery]

Those Canadian geese, how much human food do you think they get? (bread and popcorn)

 

[TK Poultry]

are there certain duck breeds more likely to get it than others???

 

[Krys109uk]

I saw it in exhibition Rouen, & runners but not in calls or harlequins. That's not to say it wouldn't happen in those, just that I didn't experience it in those.
I also don't remember experiencing it in the exhibition Ayleburys which is sort of curious as they have a similar body shape & size to Rouen.

 

[TK Poultry]

i was just wondering because i have exhibition swedish and buff ducks and i wanted to know if i should be on the look out for angel wing becuase i do have them on such i protein....like 20% for size but im only doing mainly for chickens but for economical reasons i buy one kind of feed.

 

[muzzles&nuzzles]

I am not a genetic expert. I was told by Alan Stanford that angel wing was genetic. I have had a few silkie hens with it. One had it bilaterally quite bad. I had another one (pullet) with just one feather that stuck out.

I do feed high protein though. I have only seen it in pullets and I never bred the ones with it.