Rooster, right?

[rodriguezpoultry]

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I'm neurotic:

WADDLE is something a duck does when it walks.

WATTLE is the fleshy thing hanging down below a chicken's beak.

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

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I'm googling sickle hackles, but I'm still not sure EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Can you explain this to me or get some links or pictures on this, please? I understand it has to do with formation of feathers, but I'm still just not positive of what EXACTLY I'm looking for

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

OK, what I mean is how do you tell the difference?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Sickle feathers are the feathers that, in males, curve over the main tail. Hackle feathers are the feathers on the neck and saddle feathers are the feathers on the back and hips of the bird. (If a bird could wear a saddle...that's where it'd rest.


I found this AWESOME photo on photobucket:

Number 4 = hackle feathers
Number 5 = saddle feathers
Number 8 = Main sickle feathers, but look for any that curve

 

[Chris09]

rodriguezpoultry;

Boy we are getting hi tech now with the visionaries..

That is a good idea it has all the major spots numbered..

Chris

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

This is the one I found, but the colour one helps a bunch. Thank you for that! Now I'm going to be scrutinising chickie feathers, BAH!!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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I know right!! I couldn't believe the photo when I saw it! It was perfect for what I was needing!

I wish I could take credit for it, but alas, my single-color birds probably wouldn't direct attention like the multi-colored birds!

 

[Fuzzypea]

Hmmmm... It looks like a roo, but wait a couple weeks to make sure.

 

[ranchhand]

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I'm neurotic:

WADDLE is something a duck does when it walks.

WATTLE is the fleshy thing hanging down below a chicken's beak.

Yup, those are wattles! Sounds just like waddles when you say it.

I usually look for the comb, wattles and pointed end hackle and saddle feathers.

Right now, I am looking at way too many around here!

I am known as the Rooster Magnet!

 

[staceyl]

Thanks for that picture. I've been looking everywhere for something like that.