Don, ever since you pointed this out to me, it has become more and more obvious on my rooster. I even found a picture of Wade Jeane holding one of his roosters, and the bird in that picture had the same exact comb flaw. I'm afraid it is deep into the line.
It looks to me like those are just the juvenile white feathers growing out. I wouldn't worry about the white feathers unless they stay past the next set of feathers.
Would be great for olive eggers in my opinion. There is a great olive egger group on FB. You will find it with a FB search. Lot's of cool eggs posted on there and many of them come from non-SOP Marans.
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So if one chick has side sprigs or whatever this is, they may all carry that gene? For SOP that is really bad. Would someone still be able to use this cockerel for the dark brown egg gene for olive eggers or should he be soup or wait and see?
My BCM roo will be getting some Am hens as soon as I get a more SOP replacement
Folks would need to see pics of him on the ground to really give you an idea.Can I get some feedback on my rooster, he is around 13 weeks old.[/URL]
Don, ever since you pointed this out to me, it has become more and more obvious on my rooster. I even found a picture of Wade Jeane holding one of his roosters, and the bird in that picture had the same exact comb flaw. I'm afraid it is deep into the line.
For comparison, I put a picture of my rooster beside a penedesenca, and it is very obvious that is where he got his comb
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Penedesenca
I have read, heat, stresses of mating, or low air circulation. Could also point to other health issues related to blood circulation, but he seems healthy so I'm going with heat and mating
Well, I definitely have heat! I have one BCM rooster in a pen with 6 hens, and he has the blue tips on his comb. Another pen with 7 cockerels have no blue tips, but they are still pretty young, about 12 weeks.
