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BULGE EYES:


713Cs, Female, Bulge eyes, light ash silky = dB/ Fr//+ Ta//+ L//+
Note bill stipe.

The cornea of the eye bulges out without significantly affecting the vision, although this is not tested by more than casual observation.

In selected matings that I made, one mating yielded 5 bulge eyed offspring out of 30 total, and the other mating yielded 2 bulge eyed offspring out of 20 total. This would lead one to postulate a recessive mutant. However, when two bulge eyed parents produced two normal nest mates simple recessive inheritance was excluded.

This character was brought to my attention by Troy Berndt in Wisconsin.