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You cant tell much on his tail, his tail is either pinched (which is a very common problem with spangles) or he is in a tail molt, but he has real nice, even, small mottling, appears to have a nice wing bow and wing bay, has nice body to him and keeps his wings tucked in tight and high, well balanced, not escessively long legged like many you see nowadays. All in all, one of the nicer spangled cockbirds I have seen. How old is he? I would use that older bird til he died of old age, myself....he does appear to be a henline bird, which I prefer. Good luck, spangled are my choice variety of oegbs.
He is in a molt. Is it more desirable to have small speckles or large? He does have smaller specks than the young one. His last primary wing feather is white, though, is that a problem?
he is allowed 2 solid white feathers in the wing primaries. One is not a problem and is less than most will have.
You cant tell much on his tail, his tail is either pinched (which is a very common problem with spangles) or he is in a tail molt, but he has real nice, even, small mottling, appears to have a nice wing bow and wing bay, has nice body to him and keeps his wings tucked in tight and high, well balanced, not escessively long legged like many you see nowadays. All in all, one of the nicer spangled cockbirds I have seen. How old is he? I would use that older bird til he died of old age, myself....he does appear to be a henline bird, which I prefer. Good luck, spangled are my choice variety of oegbs.
He is in a molt. Is it more desirable to have small speckles or large? He does have smaller specks than the young one. His last primary wing feather is white, though, is that a problem?
he is allowed 2 solid white feathers in the wing primaries. One is not a problem and is less than most will have.
