Does anyone actually favor the clean legs even though it isn't included in the proposed standard?
RE: feathered legs: I love looking at the BCMs and Wheaten Marans here, and I love the dark brown eggs, but I really don't want feathered legs in any of my chickens because they don't stay clean when they are out and about. I've wondered why everyone on the Marans threads seems to want to follow the French standard. Doesn't the British standard specify clean legs?
Question about my 3 Marans: I got GCM eggs from pasofinofarm this year - the 3 chicks that hatched are 3 months today. Beautiful to me, with clean legs. I'm crossing my fingers that I have 2 pullets and a cockerel. Nobody has crowed yet!
One thing I have wondered about - in other breeds the pullets grow out their tail feathers before the cockerels, but of the 3 GCMs I have, one that I am sure is a pullet and one other have very short tail feathers even now, and the other, which I am pretty sure is a cockerel, has long straight tail feathers. Is that what I should expect from the males vs females??
Thanks -
RE: feathered legs: I love looking at the BCMs and Wheaten Marans here, and I love the dark brown eggs, but I really don't want feathered legs in any of my chickens because they don't stay clean when they are out and about. I've wondered why everyone on the Marans threads seems to want to follow the French standard. Doesn't the British standard specify clean legs?
Question about my 3 Marans: I got GCM eggs from pasofinofarm this year - the 3 chicks that hatched are 3 months today. Beautiful to me, with clean legs. I'm crossing my fingers that I have 2 pullets and a cockerel. Nobody has crowed yet!
One thing I have wondered about - in other breeds the pullets grow out their tail feathers before the cockerels, but of the 3 GCMs I have, one that I am sure is a pullet and one other have very short tail feathers even now, and the other, which I am pretty sure is a cockerel, has long straight tail feathers. Is that what I should expect from the males vs females??
Thanks -