Faverolle with confused feet

[BarkerChickens]

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He has good feathering on both legs! He's a beauty...just has funny feet. HA HA

 

[berkeleysprings]

i think its the fewathering that did it , i think somewere down the line when someone wanted to ad more feathering to the legs . it happens with some marans . tryinbg to ad feathers (or more feathers ) to the legs i have pics if u need

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No, the genes for foot feathering have nothing to do with the gene for polydactyly.

 

[berkeleysprings]

missing toes many people are seeing that pop up and see it in heavy feathering legs..... so i wonder

 

[BarkerChickens]

Fishhead's feathering on both of his feet is not excessive. They are equally feathered and typical of a faverolle (which, in my opinion, isn't as heavily feathered as other feather-footed breeds). The polydactyly gene makes the most sense to me since the gene does not guarantee bilateral digits in humans and presumably this would be similar in chickens.

 

[Sharisr32]

Didn't mean the two were together was assessing rather or not to use a possible breeder a 4 toe bird with other strong traits may still be a candidate-

 

[Ballybregagh]

I appreciate I'm digging up an old thread here but I just found it in google, I also have a faverolle cock with 4 toes on one foot, so far his offspring have been about 8 out of 10 with normal 5 toes on each foot (those that don't are either the same as him with only 4 on 1 foot or they have only 4 on both) so I'm not too worried about it as he's stunning looking apart from that defect.