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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: langdon on March 28, 2010, 08:20:41 pm

Title: tail feather gone white
Post by: langdon on March 28, 2010, 08:20:41 pm

hope someone can explain this matter :(
eddie our lovely wellsummer cockerel tail feather has gone white,
he is a young cockerel just over a year old.
did anyone ever come across this kind of thing before :chook:

Title: Re: tail feather gone white
Post by: Hermit on March 28, 2010, 08:49:25 pm

Do you mean the sickle feather. Some of mine have white sickles nothing wrong but not for showing,

Title: Re: tail feather gone white
Post by: langdon on March 28, 2010, 08:59:01 pm

it is the long top tail feather
apart from that he is a happy man, doing his thing with all his girls,
standing on his perch during the day ( felling tree in run ) crowing,
chasing the girls around first thing when they come out in morning.
the only thing is when you see him you dont see his beautifull colours
only the white on the tail feather! :chook:

Title: Re: tail feather gone white
Post by: Hermit on March 28, 2010, 09:48:22 pm

I think(in my opinion only) that it goes white cause the hens are always pulling the temptingly waving about feather out and kills the colour in it, like scar fur grows back white on an animal.