Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[snowbird]

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Because people breeding them didn't care about raising Wheaten or any other variety to a standard. You saw what Walt said that it would at least be a fault with the SOP. Walt is the chair of the standard committee and knows what he is talking about when it comes to chickens. Don

 

[jeremy]

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[knjinnm]

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Because people breeding them didn't care about raising Wheaten or any other variety to a standard. You saw what Walt said that it would at least be a fault with the SOP. Walt is the chair of the standard committee and knows what he is talking about when it comes to chickens. Don

Whenever hobbyist become involved in ...fish, birds, horses, dogs, cows, cats you name it, the people who write the standards usually have a vested interest in what the critter should look like.
Changing form or color standards means finding a group of hobbyists willing to develop a new standard and enter them in enough numbers to justify another class, which is very hard to do over a shot period of time.

So back to the fluff ball ... how to get rid of it.
Oh ... the keepers of the standards don't have a clue but someone decided it didn't fit the breed.
Joe

 

[snowbird]

A lot of other breeds have the cottontail problem also, not just the Marans. Don

 

[knjinnm]

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Hi Don,

On those breeds is the cottontail a cut or DQ?

Joe

 

[snowbird]

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Hi Don,

On those breeds is the cottontail a cut or DQ?

Joe

The white fluff is just a fault. Don

 

[cherylcohen]

Here are my 2 week old wheaten marans I hatched from fitz eggs and then at the bottom the 3 that just hatched OH NO, they have white fluff!!!

Just hatched...

 

[Wynette]

Wow, CHeryl - they have some major shank fluff goin' on! TOTALLY cute!

 

[Illia]

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That's what I was thinking. Those are the most feather-shanked Wheaties I've seen.

 

[cherylcohen]

ah thanks, they are sweet too!