Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[centrarchid]

Guilty on the last part.. I realize my error every year, but like a teenager I refuse to listen to any advice including my own best judgement. 

It is a phase. Hopefully you will survive it.

 

[fowlman01]

crooked toes are blamed on incubation all the time, but in my experience it is usually genetic, so they are gone immediately in the rare times it shows up here. Crooked toes are a serious fault especially when the toes look like a pile of knitting.

Walt

 

[sdm111]

With all due respect sir, I've incubated and Broody hatched in the same year and had crooked toe chicks from incubating but never from Broody hens although not as bad

 

[fowlman01]

With all due respect sir, I've incubated and Broody hatched in the same year and had crooked toe chicks from incubating but never from Broody hens although not as bad

Just saying what 50 years experience has taught me. I hatch a few hundred birds each year. any bird that shows even the slightest crooked toes is culled right away here and because of that I rarely have a bird with a crooked toes and certainly not deformed feet like the bird pictured.

Walt

 

[centrarchid]

Culling such a bird even if not genetic may be prudent as such a bird is going to be more problematic for keeping. It also does not reflect well when others see such in yard.

 

[fowlman01]

Culling such a bird even if not genetic may be prudent as such a bird is going to be more problematic for keeping. It also does not reflect well when others see such in yard.

Yes....very bad advertising....lol

w.

 

[sdm111]

Culling such a bird even if not genetic may be prudent as such a bird is going to be more problematic for keeping. It also does not reflect well when others see such in yard.

x2

 

[sdm111]

Just saying what 50 years experience has taught me. I hatch a few hundred birds each year. any bird that shows even the slightest crooked toes is culled right away here and because of that I rarely have a bird with a crooked toes and certainly not deformed feet like the bird pictured.

Walt

true sucks when it's your only bird though but is better for the breed as a whole

 

[MaycanGamefowl]

nice was That stag from an incubated egg?

Yep he was a Turing mistake I went somewhere and forgot to turn for about two days and that's what a got for neglecting my eggs luckily this is the only time that's ever happened :/

 

[MaycanGamefowl]

crooked toes are blamed on incubation all the time, but in my experience it is usually genetic, so they are gone immediately  in the rare times it shows up here. Crooked toes are a serious fault especially when the toes look like a pile of knitting.

Walt

Sorry I have to say this but the toes Disney have anything to do with genetics his dad's toes were as straight as a nail and his mothers were too his dad was a prime example of a redfox