Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[maryhysong]

Convince me by showing me pure French birds with correct shank feathering throwing chicks with clean legs.
If you have correctly feathered parents throwing clean legged chicks, you gotta wonder where that's coming from, and it isn't the chicks.

Since there are several (Three I think) genes that affect leg feathering quite possible clean legs on one or more grand parents. I know my hens have very sparse feathering and one none at all; bred to a male with good feathering about half the chicks came out with good feathering. I expect that even breeding them together I will still get a percentage of clean legs or nearly so for the next few generations.

 

[DMRippy]

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If you want to search there is a very good post about feather leg genes and how they work. There are no FRENCH birds in the US anymore. The SOP calls for feathered legs and no need to call them "French". It is VERY common for feathered leg Marans to throw clean legs. Happens EVERY HATCH for most people.

I have birds that don't have feathered legs (wyandottes) yet they throw feathered legs on the offspring go figure.... genes you just don't know what is in there till it pops up.

 

[ladycat]

If you want to search there is a very good post about feather leg genes and how they work. There are no FRENCH birds in the US anymore. The SOP calls for feathered legs and no need to call them "French". It is VERY common for feathered leg Marans to throw clean legs. Happens EVERY HATCH for most people.

I'm not sure how many Marans I hatched this spring (from my own birds and from purchased eggs), I guess at least 100? Several chicks have come out with clean or almost clean legs.

That includes chicks I hatched from my own eggs that came from feather legged parents, which means I KNOW the parents were feather legged and still I got a few clean legged offspring.

 

[DMRippy]

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Alright I wont even act like I understand what a velociraptor gene is so just like when the doctors talk to me I tell them I went to college and chased girls not books so what did you just say .............
They have a velociraptor stage where they look like little dinosaurs

https://images.search.yahoo.com/ima...l&fr=yhs-avast-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=avast

 

[DMRippy]

Not going to try to look up the post but it was posted by villagechicken or something close to that. It may have been this thread or the Wheaten thread but it was referenced here several times about a year or more ago.

 

[carnivore]

Not going to try to look up the post but it was posted by villagechicken or something close to that.  It may have been this thread or the Wheaten thread but it was referenced here several times about a year or more ago.

Relax everyone, its a joke! While the velociraptor was a real dinosaur, it was made currently popular as the bad guy in Jurassic Park. It is portrayed as a very fast birdlike dinosaur with a voracious appetite, kinda like a mini Tyrannosaurus on speed.
Gander, that pic makes him look like a Cornish cross meatie bird. Keep the pics updated, I think that one is going to be interesting.

 

[ladycat]

These are Velociraptors!

 

[carnivore]

Since there are several (Three I think) genes that affect leg feathering quite possible clean legs on one or more grand parents. I know my hens have very sparse feathering and one none at all; bred to a male with good feathering about half the chicks came out with good feathering. I expect that even breeding them together I will still get a percentage of clean legs or nearly so for the next few generations.

If you want to search there is a very good post about feather leg genes and how they work.  There are no FRENCH birds in the US anymore.  The SOP calls for feathered legs and no need to call them "French".  It is VERY common for feathered leg Marans to throw clean legs.  Happens EVERY HATCH for most people. 

I have birds that don't have feathered legs (wyandottes) yet they throw feathered legs on the offspring go figure.... genes you just don't know what is in there till it pops up.

I'm not sure how many Marans I hatched this spring (from my own birds and from purchased eggs), I guess at least 100? Several chicks have come out with clean or almost clean legs.

That includes chicks I hatched from my own eggs that came from feather legged parents, which means I KNOW the parents were feather legged and still I got a few clean legged offspring.

Don't mean to get anyone's panties in a twist. The French standard (not American, not British) calls for "lightly feathered legs". As DMRippy pointed out, we don't have any pure French lines in the US, and breeders are trying to breed to the original French line. Lot of work involved there, because what we are working with is the remnants of the British "frankenbird" experiments. Maybe the original French birds threw clean legged chicks too, I don't know, but I suspect that the clean legged chicks are a throwback to some of the British crossing attempts. Just because the parents have good leg feathering, they may still be carrying clean leg genes.

 

[gander007]

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Alright I wont even act like I understand what a velociraptor gene is so just like when the doctors talk to me I tell them I went to college and chased girls not books so what did you just say .............
They have a velociraptor stage where they look like little dinosaurs

https://images.search.yahoo.com/ima...l&fr=yhs-avast-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=avast

@DMRippi, I went and checked that out and some other stuff on the internet and that is some amazing stuff no wonder weird things happen when there is cross breading or any breeding .............

 

[gander007]

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Yep a good point as I have other breeds of chickens and there are times when they have leg feathers and the breed plainly is a clean legged chicken ...