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I started breeding buffs in 2008. In 2009 I culled hard for smut, 2010 I culled hard for eye color, this year I had few with light eyes compared to what I had the first and second years.
As far as missing toes, toes are easy to cull for since you can tell when they hatch if they have the correct # or not. But if you use a bird with 4 toes, you'll get some with 4 toes and some with 5 toes, but all the offspring will carry the gene for 4 toes. At least that's how I understand it.
Believe it or not, incubation temperatures can turn a pure polydactyly embryo into an 8 toed (4 per foot) chick, that will pass the polydactyly gene to all its offspring.
Thanks both of you for the advice, helps a lot!
I started breeding buffs in 2008. In 2009 I culled hard for smut, 2010 I culled hard for eye color, this year I had few with light eyes compared to what I had the first and second years.
As far as missing toes, toes are easy to cull for since you can tell when they hatch if they have the correct # or not. But if you use a bird with 4 toes, you'll get some with 4 toes and some with 5 toes, but all the offspring will carry the gene for 4 toes. At least that's how I understand it.
Believe it or not, incubation temperatures can turn a pure polydactyly embryo into an 8 toed (4 per foot) chick, that will pass the polydactyly gene to all its offspring.
Thanks both of you for the advice, helps a lot!
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