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  • spence
    southern mn
    Posts: 94
    December 1, 2007 at 4:00 am #211888

    is there any truth to the number of rings/stripes on the tail feathers being a sign of how many yrs.old a bird is?

    sippiriverrat
    Andover MN.
    Posts: 390
    December 1, 2007 at 12:06 pm #16800

    I don’t know about that but if you get a rooster with spurs that are a half inch or longer and start to curl you have a real troghy bird. It amazes me when I look at birds that people get mounted that are first year birds.Look at the spurs they will tell you its an old one.

    kruger
    Metro,mn
    Posts: 593
    December 2, 2007 at 5:04 am #16821

    Also if you take the rooster and hold it by its beek and the beek snaps that also indicates that it is a year or younger.

    Bob Bowman
    MN
    Posts: 3544
    December 3, 2007 at 6:33 pm #16857

    we got 2 this last weekend that had 36 and 34 bars on the tail feathers. The spurs on both birds were not that big.

    spence
    southern mn
    Posts: 94
    December 3, 2007 at 7:59 pm #17592

    yeah, definitely able to tell by spur length but i didn’t know if there was any truth to the amount of lines or not.

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    December 3, 2007 at 9:24 pm #17600

    I’m also with the Spurs.

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