wgg
4 posts
Sep 17, 2004
1:56 PM
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Not to bring conversation to the eyesign theory again but I've seen a few birds with clusters in the eye (gold and silver) and was curious of how prevalent it was in other lofts? I've seen it more in the rollers than in the homers. Would you consider it just a physical fault or is there some merit to them being better breeders/performers etc??? Personally, I think it is cool to look at but to correlate it to a better racer/homer or spinner???? I don't know? Maybe it's like having a cat with 7 toes? lol.
Thanks,
Grant
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
243 posts
Sep 17, 2004
2:39 PM
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Hey Grant. If you are talking about the "floating flecks" that appear nearly suspended in the iris, my feeling by what I have learned both from rollers and from my racing homer friends is that it is a common link to both character and health. Not to say that one which does not possess such an eye expression is any lesser of a bird, just that any breed which is strong in flight and ultimately that in character, tend to have that kind of eye. John VandenBroek has some of the most intense eye rollers I have ever seen. They appear multi-dimensional when you look into them. There is so much color flecking going on, it's almost like a fine painting. I don't feel it is a sign of exact measure, but one of the aspects that lean in favor of a string of constants that can appear in a family.
Brian.
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