Duck with five webbed toes

[quackingdom]

Someone emailed me with a picture of their Muscovy duck with five webbed toes.

I told them it was probably an unusual deformity. No bird naturally has feet like this. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

If not, I just thought I'd share these pics (with permission) in case anyone is as intrigued as I was. I've never seen such a thing before.

 

[BuChix]

Polydactyl — happens in many different species, including humans.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Polydactyl — happens in many different species, including humans.

Yep, had a cousin with 6 toes until he had surgery.

 

[Miss Lydia]

How about that.

 

[quackingdom]

Thanks. I was not aware of the technical term. It seems the owner of the duck has added two of the pictures to Wikipedia recently. I guess they learned about the term too (originally they called it "special feet" and seemed to think it was an unusual breed of duck, if I recall correctly). Polydactyly seems to be fairly common among humans and cats, but I can't find any other instances of a polydactyl duck.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Yep, had a cousin with 6 toes until he had surgery.

.... oopsie’ guess I shouldn’t laugh. But that was Funneee’

 

[Quacking Pigeon]

Someone emailed me with a picture of their Muscovy duck with five webbed toes.

I told them it was probably an unusual deformity. No bird naturally has feet like this. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

If not, I just thought I'd share these pics (with permission) in case anyone is as intrigued as I was. I've never seen such a thing before.

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My gosh that’s a unique scovy. It kinda reminds me of Silkies as they have so many toes.

 

[CrystaBub]

I'd love to see those footprints in snow!