Ah I hate to hear that, VIVI
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Clown, Usually if you have pretty good leg feathering you will get a few with the middle toe feathering. I have used these in breeding pen if they are males. It will most likely be a male. Using these will help in the shank and toe feathering.Well so far I have 2 Black Copper chicks out right now. One has 2 microscopic feathers on the middle toe errrrr. So unless the feather fairy comes back and takes the feathers that she wasnt suppose to put on the toe, I already have a cull!!! i dont know where the heck those came from. A good majority of the eggs came from birds that were needy in the leg feathering dept. None of them have middle toe feathering either. Oh well thats Marans for you! I NEED MORE FLUFFY PENGUINS!
It was my understanding that as middle toe feathering was an undesirable trait that you didnt want to breed those forward? I dont want junk so I may cull. As I stated before. My birds are a little sparce on leg feathers. So in reality it shouldnt be there. Who knows.Clown, Usually if you have pretty good leg feathering you will get a few with the middle toe feathering. I have used these in breeding pen if they are males. It will most likely be a male. Using these will help in the shank and toe feathering.
I think if you mate the Blue with the Splash it should produce offspring with the feathered legs if that is your goal. Also I think even if you mated him to a bird without feathered legs you may get a small percentage with feathered shanks. It may not have a lot, but Im sure you Roo came from a line with feathers. So he is caring the gene. I found this same thing out with my recent hatch. I mated to birds that had very little feathers for my taste. The feathering should have been balance or with light leg feathering again. Instead I got feathering on the middle toe. At least thats what I thought. I thought middle toe feathering was condusive to access feathering. Anyway I hope this helped, if I am right.I have figure out what I'm gonna do with a nice blue boy. He doesnt have feathers on his feet so I'm at a loss what to do with cuz all of mine are French except for him and his brother. So what does everyone think about putting him with a splash French?
They were given to me as chicks from a friend. VIVI
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You would not want to cross a Copper with a solid color. That just muddies the waters. If you don't have any other roo you can use a clean leg with feather legs and get about 50/50, might be lighter feathers though. I have a LIGHTLY feathered roo and a clean legged hen I am using now to get come cuckoos so we will see what I get with that cross. If you had one with middle toe feathers use that one with you clean legged roo.