Feather legged sebright! Supposed to be purebred. PICS

[vetgirl00us]

I have 17 silver sebrights that came from Cackle Hatchery as one day old chicks. I just noticed that one of them has black feathers growing down its legs. Not on the feet but down to them. Does this mean my birds may not be pure? The chicks are 2 1/2 weeks old.

 

[canada-goose]

That doesn't sound like a Sebright to me. Do you have any pictures?

 

[asher]

Well...I've never seen a sebright with leg feathers and it's definitely not in the standard of perfection for that breed.

 

[Sillystunt]

ahhhh, the hatchery stock chicken............... NO, they should not have feathers down the shank. My friend has show ones and they do not have feathers. i would contact the hatchery and ask about it. if you go to www.feathersite.com they will have the standards



okay, found it..................... http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sebr/BRKSebrights.html

 

[vetgirl00us]

Hmmmm, wonder what they are breeding up there????

Lemme go see if I can get pics and get them uploaded to here.

 

[vetgirl00us]

Ok here goes-

 

[abluechipstock]

well they get their eggs from breeders so maybe a rogue rooster flew in the coop for a visit, that's why we have breeder quality and hatchery quality, i also wonder if it's a fluke or a throw back from years ago, just watch it and see if they fall off when it gets older, just compare the other body parts to the others when they mature

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Could it be a bantam silver laced cochin? The hatchery may have simply mixed up a chick in the sebright bin.

 

[vetgirl00us]

Well, I don't mind. I didn't know that hatchery birds were substandard when I ordered them or I would've got eggs/ birds/ chicks from a show breeder. I don't want to show but I don't want to bring the breed down by breeding substandard birds. We had planned on keeping the best looking and using them for breeders but I don't know if I want Sebrights or not. I'm already into OEBG's, D'uccles and getting Seramas. Got some white faced black spanish bantams too with the Cackle group and two of them have white feathers on their wings when they are supposed to be coal black. Ugh.

I researched the breed standard and don't see anywhere that had feather legged birds.

 

[dieselgrl48]

Nope not pure sebrite.They are clean leg bird's. One of the prettiest bird's I ever got that was feather footed was when my silver laced bred one of my white frizzle hen's.It may turn out to be a fair looking bird so don't give up on it yet.