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Post by Jon Alden on Mar 7, 2012 18:48:08 GMT -5
I was wondering if anybody has troubles with red earlobes? I have a few birds that have white in their lobes.
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Post by d12chandler on Mar 7, 2012 19:30:58 GMT -5
I had a problem with my buff bantams. On the rest of my bantams, white, black and blue I might get a little white when they are laying heavy. Most would not. Funny thing, last week I got a call from a member and he ask if I looked at any of the auction boards, he said most of the orp bantams had white earlobes.
don
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Post by harrys on Mar 7, 2012 20:01:04 GMT -5
Jon, They are suppose to be multiple genes that produce them. The only thing I know about them is they are very difficult to erradicate from the flock. I usually don't see the on males but females seem to express this fault more often. I just cull the hens and hope I got rid of at least 1/2 the problem. This is not only a problem in Orps they are also seen in Araucanas and Ameraucanas.
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Post by aveca on Apr 22, 2012 11:54:15 GMT -5
Does this go back to minorca ancestry? I went to look at some blk orpington hens last week..in a small photo they sent me, they looked like nice hens, but when i got there they all had a bright white ear lobe..it looked like they were all wearing a pearl earring..I didn't buy any because of that..kind of a shame because other than that, they were pretty nice big hens..I couldn't help but wonder where that came from...mine, have deep red ear lobe.
They also had the pony mane, neck feathers that rather than form like a fan around the neck....like the sop picture, they tend to want to part around the neck..I knew that was a fault also. But otherwise they had other things that were nice about them like their shape.
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Post by korfuskluckers on Apr 23, 2012 0:47:45 GMT -5
Jon, all you can really do is cull, cull, cull. Some of the first birds I got had this and I did not used them, I culled them right out.
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