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He was not really cooperating in that pic either. He had snipped at me when I was trying to come in the pen . . . .so he had to spend some QUALITY time with me BEFORE I took the picture. I got a chair, sat down, cuddled him like a little baby, stroked his wattles, and whispered sweet nothings until he was ready to PUKE over the niceness of the whole episode.

I was lucky to get him to even FACE me once I released into his pen. . . . There was absolutely no cockiness left in that boy!
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Very cute AND boy oh boy is that little one going to have some leg feathering when it grows up!
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The feathering on the middle toe is a DQ
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DQ? Disqualification?

This one is the only one with the feathering on the middle toe.

Yipper - - DQ = Disqualification!

I am getting eggs from a roo that is BEAUTIFUL but has feathers on his middle toe. I am hoping some of his offspring don't have feathers on the middle toe. IF they all have feathers on the middle toe ( which doesn't look likely since only the one of yours has it
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), Then I do have a hen with absolutely NO FEATHERS and I will pair her up with his sons and see if I can produce some nicely feathered chicks.

I don't think it is anything to seriously worry about . . . THERE are MUCH BIGGER issues that could show up with your birds before it is all over with. The marans are a breed in the developmental stage. After all, the standard still hasn't been finalized by the people in the know.

You won't be able to show that one, but you still may be able to use it in a breeding program AND you will ABSOLUTELY be able to use the siblings that don't have this DQ.
 
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Yes even then!!!
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If you think that's bad, try raising turkey babies- they have the walk down and everything!
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Haha I just got 3 turkey poults, they are about a week and a half old now. I thought they would be mean but they are turning out to be worse than the chickens. I am having to pry them off with a stick practically. Talk about sweet! I hope they are gonna stay this way lol. They do remind me of raptors, I was just thinking that yesterday while watching them chase flies.
 
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DQ? Disqualification?

This one is the only one with the feathering on the middle toe.

Yipper - - DQ = Disqualification!

I am getting eggs from a roo that is BEAUTIFUL but has feathers on his middle toe. I am hoping some of his offspring don't have feathers on the middle toe. IF they all have feathers on the middle toe ( which doesn't look likely since only the one of yours has it
big_smile.png
), Then I do have a hen with absolutely NO FEATHERS and I will pair her up with his sons and see if I can produce some nicely feathered chicks.

I don't think it is anything to seriously worry about . . . THERE are MUCH BIGGER issues that could show up with your birds before it is all over with. The marans are a breed in the developmental stage. After all, the standard still hasn't been finalized by the people in the know.

You won't be able to show that one, but you still may be able to use it in a breeding program AND you will ABSOLUTELY be able to use the siblings that don't have this DQ.

It is hard to breed the feathers off the middle toe. I had issues with that in my first blue coppers. Even when I crossed them to clean shanked with no toe feathering I still would get some popping up with the middle toe feathering
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I am so stumped on this chick my friend. Normally I would fire off the gender but I just can't with this chick for some reason. By the last photo alone I would be tempted to say cockerel but the other photos leave me wanting to say pullet because by six weeks I would think that the comb would be much bigger like PrincessChickens'.
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I know its driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiving me nuts.. too... its like... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..LOL/ thanks though so much for trying..

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Yipper - - DQ = Disqualification!

I am getting eggs from a roo that is BEAUTIFUL but has feathers on his middle toe. I am hoping some of his offspring don't have feathers on the middle toe. IF they all have feathers on the middle toe ( which doesn't look likely since only the one of yours has it
big_smile.png
), Then I do have a hen with absolutely NO FEATHERS and I will pair her up with his sons and see if I can produce some nicely feathered chicks.

I don't think it is anything to seriously worry about . . . THERE are MUCH BIGGER issues that could show up with your birds before it is all over with. The marans are a breed in the developmental stage. After all, the standard still hasn't been finalized by the people in the know.

You won't be able to show that one, but you still may be able to use it in a breeding program AND you will ABSOLUTELY be able to use the siblings that don't have this DQ.

It is hard to breed the feathers off the middle toe. I had issues with that in my first blue coppers. Even when I crossed them to clean shanked with no toe feathering I still would get some popping up with the middle toe feathering
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ah drat

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You could always wax it off..... ha ha ha!


The breeder sent me a picture of a cockerel from my chick's same hatch, and it's comb and waddles are twice as big and most definitely pink. Now I'm back to doubting again.
 

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