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Wheaten Cockerel at 6 months

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Holiday Hatch:
Royce & Lee - Thank you both for your recent comments.  First of all Royce thanks for sharing your detailed critique of the  6 month old from head to tail.  All the details will help me judge birds in the future.  The wing bay comment was especially helpful.

--- Quote ---And I can't quite tell but it looks like his upper primaries are lacking any brown to complete the Wing Bay?
--- End quote ---
I've never known what to look for in the Wing Bay.  So the last few days, I've read the SOP on Wheaten Ameraucana Wing Bay and examined this Cockerel and some other Cockerels around here, and compared them to pictures I can find.  This 6 month old Cockerel does have brown/bay coloring on each of his primaries.  From your comments it sounds desirable for the Primaries to be visible and frame the Wing Bay when his wing is at rest. 

Lee - Yes I've seen that "S Comb" in some of these birds.  A Cockerel I brought in from outside my flock last year has a comb like the one in your second picture.  My females don't have it, but some of the Cockerels have that slight curve at the tail end of their comb. 
Thanks again for all the help as I continue to learn more about what to look for.  Linda

Mike Gilbert:
Actually, when a bird is holding his wings up properly it is the exposed edge of the secondaries that form the wing bay.   If the wing is droopy, then yes, the primaries will show too, but if the wing is held in the right position they shouldn't.

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