Silkie breeding, genetics & showing

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: The second foot is not duckfoot. All toes point forward in a duckfoot bird. Toes, not toenails.

||||| <--duckfoot

|||
/ <--correct foot
\

 

[delisha]

After reading that report and the development of feet, and how they open an egg and can generate toes to fully develop by adding a cell generator, that has me thinking that silkies might have more feet problems because of early hatch and hot temps in an incubator.
.has anyone done a study on that with there own chicks? Or hatched out all silkie eggs under a hen and still had foot problems?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

After reading that report and the development of feet, and how they open an egg and can generate toes to fully develop by adding a cell generator, that has me thinking that silkies might have more feet problems because of early hatch and hot temps in an incubator.
.has anyone done a study on that with there own chicks? Or hatched out all silkie eggs under a hen and still had foot problems?

Low temperatures during hte first few days of incubation can cause polydactyly to not express.

 

[Irishgirl]

I'll try for a pic, [FONT=calibri, sans-serif]Delisha. Could take a while.[/FONT]

 

[Irishgirl]

I finally caught her. Pics of her and her foot.

 

[Adoravachick]

Quote:

There is a picture of a duck foot in the APA SOP. The back toe that normally points to the rear folds forward and under. A bird with duck feet will stand looking like it almost might tip forward as it can't rest on that back toe. Not a good thing. I would not breed a bird with true duck feet. It is a DQ for a reason.

Here is the pic that I found online of duck-foot. I thought that duck foot had to do with the entire toe, not the nail, I was right in thinking so. When the picture was posted about the bird with duck-foot, I was confused because it didn't look like duck-foot to me. I thought maybe I was missing something. I agree with you though, I would not breed bird with duck-foot.

 

[Adoravachick]

After reading that report and the development of feet, and how they open an egg and can generate toes to fully develop by adding a cell generator, that has me thinking that silkies might have more feet problems because of early hatch and hot temps in an incubator.
.has anyone done a study on that with there own chicks? Or hatched out all silkie eggs under a hen and still had foot problems?

This is interesting. I did notice that in my Little Giant incubator, the temp would run on the higher side, and I did have chicks with fused toes and they would hatch at day 19. Now with my Brinsea the temp is a steady 99.5, the chicks hatch at day 21, and I don't see the fused toes anymore. Both from the same white pair. I actually have eggs from that pair under a broody right now. It would be interesting to see what we get. Very interesting.

 

[delisha]

Quote: So excessive heat can make polydactyle express to the excessive? like extra toes and nails?

 

[delisha]

Thank you so much for the pictures of the duck toes..I am clear on what it is. I love to learn new things and I need information about silkies.

 

[RockerHen]

No, webbed feet is a different DQ.  Duckfoot is when all toes point forward.

I have a wyandotte (hatchery, which explains it, I guess) who has webbed feet. It comes up about half or three fourths of the way up in between her outside and middle toes on both feet. One foot is worse. I didn't catch it when she was a baby, but she seems to get around fine. She does walk a little differently than the others, and it took her a while to get the hang of roosting. I'll try to get a pic for others to reference .