Black Copper Maran coloring

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Outside of cuckoo marans, are there that many marans varieties that are not typically feather footed? The Marans Club of America has a bit of info regarding the history of cuckoo marans and the leg/foot feathering (standard calls for feathering):

http://www.maransofamericaclub.com/cuckoo-marans.html

Excerpt about cuckoo marans:

"The cuckoo Marans was the only variety in the U.S.until the last few years....The Hopkins Marans were feather shanked and the Fitch Marans were clean shanked so the off spring were both clean and feather shanked birds."

Which makes it sound like this is only a cuckoo marans issue.

It completely depends on which standard you are going by. There are lots. Just saying, it not 'a bad bird' if it doesn't have feathering, because the American variety doesn't have them. There are breeders that specifically breed for non feathered legs. Also, there are many Marans varieties that have feathered, and non feathered, legs. It goes for all colors.

 

[chonsey]

I just got Maran eggs off eBay. I seen splash, blue, copper, and white? Maran hatching eggs for sale. Bought eggs from a 4h blue ribbon winner, hoping for a beautiful flock!

 

[oregonkat]

It completely depends on which standard you are going by. There are lots. Just saying, it not 'a bad bird' if it doesn't have feathering, because the American variety doesn't have them. There are breeders that specifically breed for non feathered legs. Also, there are many Marans varieties that have feathered, and non feathered, legs. It goes for all colors.

I probably should be asking this on the Marans SOP thread, but it seems to me that the standard French feathered legs for Black Copper Marans is far more common here than the American 'featherless' standard. When I see BCM eggs offered for sale from such and such 'line' they all seem to espouse the feathered legs. I have not seen a breeder (not that I have done extensive research but I hatch these guys a lot) who calls their line an American line. Are there breeders? There must be! I would love to know.

 

[Wellsken]

It's hard to tell the extent of the yellow fluff from your pic, but it does look like a normal BCM chick from this angle. Here is a link to chick pics of various breeds. The BCM chicks are the second pic from the top:

https://www.mypetchicken.com/about-chickens/chicken-pictures/baby-chick-pictures.aspx

Thank you, this is very helpful.

 

[Wellsken]

I suppose I should ask about the legs. Lightly feathered I assume?

Only the one had hatched at that point, now, seven are out, two have feathered legs, five do not.

 

[chonsey]

I gave two beautiful French copper maran show roosters to the bird guy north of here when my step daughter was very ill. They had beautiful feathered legs and he said they look for that when you show them. So I looked for that in the pics and found a winner! Hoping for feathered legs on my chicks.

 

[oregonkat]

Only the one had hatched at that point, now, seven are out, two have feathered legs, five do not.

Can I ask where you got your eggs? Thanks,

 

[chonsey]

I ordered mine from My Pet Chicken (still on backorder) and on ebay from a 4-h youth selling their eggs! So I hope to have a good breeding pair to maintain my lil flock.

 

[Wellsken]

Can I ask where you got your eggs? Thanks,

I picked them up on eBay. it was two batches of fourteen eggs each. One was from Louisiana, the other from Texas, if I remember correctly.

 

[oregonkat]

I picked them up on eBay. it was two batches of fourteen eggs each. One was from Louisiana, the other from Texas, if I remember correctly.

Were both or either advertised as being 'american standard'?