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Dorkings have short legs and those don't seem to bear any resemblance to a Dorking, but it could be anything..You can't always tell by looking at a bird what it's makeup is, but usually you can see an indication. As an example: I produced a pair of super gray Call ducks by accident. I cross flying Mallards with White Calls for a falconer friend. The birds he uses to train young falcons need to be able to fly, but can't be as strong as a real mallard or they can beat up a young falcon and the falcon will never go after a duck again. I keep these birds separate and use white Calls just to insure that I can tell that they are mixed. I could have sold each one of the pair for $200.00+ each easily if I didn't care about what would happen when they bred them. That is how much they looked like great gray Calls. The male was res bantam duck in a class of over 250 the one time I showed them. I only showed them once to prove a point. I let them mate to see what they would produce and all of the offspring were junk and there were tons of color variations. None looked even remotely like a Call duck.
Walt
