Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[edgarmongold]

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What are you going to do to put feathered shanks and toes on your birds now that the APA has accepted the French Standard for Marans?

 

[jeremy]

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What are you going to do to put feathered shanks and toes on your birds now that the APA has accepted the French Standard for Marans?

I don't believe the Wheaten variety has been accepted into the APA, at the moment it's just the Black Coppers. There is a proposed standard but nothing has been "set in stone" so to speak.

Also there was an American Standard written for the breed, again at least for the BCs, so the French Standard no longer applies to those birds... if you're breeding here in the US towards our standard.

 

[berkeleysprings]

i have hatched all times of the year and no matter when its always 7+ months from egg to laying egg
i recorded hatches at xmass to july to october and all months between . i can safely say i have hatched ofer 150 to 200 weheaten marans from my origonal 6 hens and 2 roo
i have incresed to 20 hens but they are not at pol yet..... all the offspring i have are crossed lines , i sometimes wonder if thats it but im sure its not

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[berkeleysprings]

i am happy to say all the birds i have are feathered shanks and i cull all that are not. lucky for me i havent produced a clean shank in a year and a half. 4 or 5 out of close to 200 birds were clean leg

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What are you going to do to put feathered shanks and toes on your birds now that the APA has accepted the French Standard for Marans?

 

[VillageChicken]

Do you get any middle toe or "between the toes" feathers?

 

[berkeleysprings]

never , ever . only outside toe no matter how much feathering . i think its different genetics involved whan other toes are feathered .... out of all the wheatens i have ,out of 50 or so to date , its just the outside toe i should also say all i ever hatched also in the hundreds
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[Wynette]

Friends - for those of you interested in discussing the SOP only, please go here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6577956#p6577956

 

[berkeleysprings]

shouldnt we be discussing the sop for wheaten marans on this thred ? , i clicked your link and it took me to black copper thred


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[berkeleysprings]

yes your correct wheaten marans have never been accepted in the USA since the creation

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What are you going to do to put feathered shanks and toes on your birds now that the APA has accepted the French Standard for Marans?

I don't believe the Wheaten variety has been accepted into the APA, at the moment it's just the Black Coppers. There is a proposed standard but nothing has been "set in stone" so to speak.

Also there was an American Standard written for the breed, again at least for the BCs, so the French Standard no longer applies to those birds... if you're breeding here in the US towards our standard.

 

[snowbird]

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Randy, I believe the intent here is to ad other colors as they are approved. Someone had stated they would rather not talk about the SOP on the Black Copper Marans thread, so the Marans to SOP thread was started by Wynette.

Not much to talk about on the wheatens until they have a proposed standard. I do not belong to the MCCUSA any longer or would ask how the proposed standard is coming. If you are a member you could go there and talk to someone.