If you’re a fan of feathered chickens – crests, beards, tufts or muffs – you’ll probably feel at home with a feathered shank as a pet. In fact, some varieties of chickens have feathered shanks (legs), but others do not. From my reading, the trait of feathered feet in chicken breeds originated in Asia. I read somewhere that if you cross a feathered shank with an unfeathered shank, all the shanks of the F1 generation will be feathered. However, when the F1 generation is crossed, the F2 generation contains chickens with feathered shanks to unfeathered shanks in a ratio of 15 to one.

Source: Daily Nation January 19, 2018 18:11 UTC