Backyard Poultry Forum

with the soles of the feet on the willow aussies ruff do you ever see them bright yellow?

yes, especially on the blacks, even toes that are half yellow. sometimes i get birds with dark blue legs so i cull them just in case someone takes offence. icannot understand why piles and whites are allowed yellow prefered to willow. blacks are impossible to get willow unless you get red/silver in the plumage.

Fantastic idea! Can you please do eye and leg colour for Pekin and full size OEG? I'd love to know before I go and make a possible show fool of myself.
Thanks Dwayne

Hi Dwayne,
Have you had a look at the Chook Breed Profiles? There is the standards information in there too regarding leg and eye colour.

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Erika

Thanks for that . No mention of eye colour so maybe it's not an issue .
Cheers

For OEG or for the pekins Dwayne?

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Erika

Pekin - Eyes: red to orange in all varieties

OEG - depends on the colour. Normally red, but black in some of the darker colours, particularly tose with dark (gypsy) faces and a white legged white bird can have pearl eyes. Red is the most common though.

Gypsy face english game

Great topic. Orange/red eye colour on Oeg and modern game

I do like the gypsy face OEG Hardfeather

A question on toe colour though in australorp. I have a lovely young pullet with one black toenail. Given that legs and feet are worth only 5 points in the APS2 for australorp is she worth showing or not bother? Soles are nice and white and legs black.

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Erika

If the bird is good type. I think it will be fine redjohanna, I had black rosecomb bantams and every bird had some white and some black toenails. So I never showed them, I was talking to a mate at the club and he came around for a look. He took one look at my birds and promptly told me " your too darn picky" so I showed them, I won champion softfeather- odd coloured nails and all.