Aussie Finch Forum

I just saw that one on my heck's grassfinch babies has no foot, It just ends in a round club. What do you guys think? Destroy or keep? It looks to be coping well, maybe I must keep it if it is a female and give it away if it turns out to be a male. I have had 4 lots of chicks from this pair, and all the chicks were perfect. I don't know if the parents are related. Could this be due to inbreeding or is it just an anomoly?

I had a clutch of fire finches fledge and 1 chick had a club foot and found It was a piece of nylon strand that amputated the foot and dont know how the parents got It must have rubbed of my shirt or socks on the wire.But the youngster gets around aviary fine.

I would try breeding it if in all other respects it is a fine healthy bird. Working on the principle that something like that is more often misadventure than genetic. BUT watch it's chicks carefully. And if there is a problem, then clubfoot goes into the looking at only avairy.
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