Funny you asked. I have observed with my cross birds that it can happen. Nest mates, for example, look different. One resembles the father more than the mother and vice-versa.
Hi HAMBONE, Well first how old is the male bird? You see the Wattle grows as the cock gets older. There are breeds that have large wattles and eye ceres, so you may have what you think is a homer but in fact is one of the wattle breeds, Dragoons, English Carriers, just to name a few,and in the developement of the racing homer these were two of the breeds used,so we see old races that carry this trait. With the young it may take years before you see the large wattles.Feral males for the most part do not live much over 4 years in the wild,and therefor we rarely see big wattles in feral birds, how ever there are people that have raised feral males as pets and they may have one that also show large wattles. I will have to look thru my genetic books to see if there has been any genetic work done along those lines. GEORGEI have an old pied male homer mated to a feral . Homer has prominent fleshy white eye ceres and a large nose wattle , while the charcoal hen has none of that . They have produced quite a few offspring over the last year and NONE of the YB's have that eye cere trait which I kind of like ..... all are like their mother feathered right up to the eyeball . I would think that some , or at least one would show traits of the father with the fleshy cere .
Isnt that kind of strange ? Why wouldn't that trait have come out by now ?
hambone