Compost King
Free Ranging
I keep coming up with different anomalies in making my Olive Eggers, Some how I ended up with a 5 Toe chicken that laid a beautiful Blue Egg. I have been Crossing her with my Black Copper Maran rooster and every batch I seem to get something strange. A Cockerel from one batch looked to have 5 toes, nothing out of the ordinary then one day wandered close enough for me to grab so I did and looked him over. I found a a toe nail popping out of his foot and it looks to be a stunted extra toe. Since he already has 5 toes this might make it a total of 6 toes on one food (5 on the other). So at night when he was easy to grab off the roost I attempted to take pictures with my cheap point and shoot camera. there is also an odd feather on his foot, look below that tiny feather
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Maybe I should bred him over his mother and see if it repeats. Tomorrow morning I am going to inspect the feet of the parents and see if they have the same thing.