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Susan Mouw:
Since I've now had this crop up in this year's hatch, I've been doing a little research. Since I have two parents, neither of whom have feathered legs, then this must be the more rare recessive version of a feathered leg gene, Pt3.
And, since it is recessive, it is present in the cock and at least one of the hens in my breeding pen. But, where did this originally come from? The birds I tend to think of as having feathered legs, like the Brahma, have the dominant version, PT 1 or PT 2.

So what bird was used in the development of the wheaten/blue wheaten that introduced this gene?

Don:
Susan,  You might drop Wayne Meredith a note and ask him what he remembers being used during the construction of the color(s) long ago.  I can not think of what that might have been, but I'm sure that they were creative in those early matings.   

Susan Mouw:
Wayne wrote me back, but didn't have any suggestions about where this might be coming from. He says he has had a few males from time to time show a few stubs, but nothing like what I'm seeing.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a couple of pictures of this guy. He hatched on 3/9, so he's exactly one month old today. I took these pictures this afternoon.

Birdcrazy:
Susan, Are you sure those are feathers? Maybe they are leg warmers. I have birds that would die for those in the Nebraska winters here!

Susan Mouw:
LOL, Gordon!!

You're right!  They're just leg warmers.  This guy doesn't know he's in South Carolina!  Should I ship him up to you, Gordon? 

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