are crooked toes passed on to the offspring?

[poultrycrazy]

I have the most beautiful olive egger rooster i have ever seen. They are Lavender ameraucana rooster crossed with BC marans hen. They have crooked toes. If i breed them to hens without crooked toes would the offspring have crooked toes? Either way i am keeping them to give them a good home. I dont want to breed them if the offspring will have crooked, if they will then i wont breed them because that seems cruel to me. Thanks for any help

 

[joletabey]

Run a search on crooked toes - there were some great posts a week or so ago about it being more due to biotin deficiencies and possible incubator problems. I cannot remember what thread it was on, but the info is on here somewhere.