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[sdm111]

 

[centrarchid]

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White legs with spurs doing the cat walk! I just let my last white legged pullet go.

 

[B123]

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Come on, rub it in why don't you! lol I have been trying to learn a little about the genetics of spurred hens. Some have two, most none and some one. From what I have seen, the one is usually on the left leg. Does that have to do with the functional ovary in hens? I have seen a couple of mini's with one good spur on the left leg and a "soft" enlarged spur "nub" on the right.

 

[centrarchid]

I have a bunch of spurred hens. How it is inherited I do not know, but one of my lines when bred to itself produces almost exclusively spurred hens. I think it is recessive. Spur development I see appears symmetrical. Cock side of same line does have larger spurs than cocks of similar age from other lines. Egg production appears same. Problem when breeding comes with eggs in last couple days before hatch when chicks inside begin absorbing calcium making shells thinner. The spurred hens much more apt to damage those eggs. Then you have more frequent damage to hatched chicks.

 

[B123]

These are 30 plus years old, from my Grandfather's reds. Hens had yellow spurs, cocks had black spurs.

 

[sdm111]

I'll have to check but I don't think I have any that are not spurred

 

[B123]

I'll have to check but I don't think I have any that are not spurred

Now you have gone too far!

 

[sdm111]

 

[sdm111]

These are 30 plus years old, from my Grandfather's reds. Hens had yellow spurs, cocks had black spurs.

nice! Cool how they're a momento from days gone by

 

[sdm111]

Now you have gone too far!

I tried to send you some but noooooo.....