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I checked and none have a extra toe. I am going to make sure the 2 hens keep their genes in my breeding flock I love the way they look and they are calm when you scratch them under their beaksThe white fibro chick from your flock is gorgeous! Hope the recessive white allele can be kept in the gene pool. Do any of the adults in your breeding flock have extra toes? I'm interested in how the polydactyl genes in these SoAm project lineages compare to the polydactly traits I've seen in other projects. In my SoAm project (the Snowly Mapauche / Nikkei lineage) I've got a rooster (Shiro) with slate legs and extra toes but only on his left foot. His mother, Dulcita, also had extra toes only on the left foot. However, his offspring (with normal toe hens) have extras on both feet. His daughters, Chullu & Keiko (?) at hatch.... (Keiko's legs turned black as she got older. I lost her to a raccoon last winter. She and Chullu were full sibs.)