Knowledge of french moult anyone ?

[naldy]

Last year i bred 2 birds,who produced my best chicks,so this year i paired some of these chicks !
I have since discovered that some of these chicks have reared babies with french moult.
My question is can french moult miss a generation and should i eradicte all related birds from my breeding program,obviously this will be really disappointing because this line was starting to produce some decent birds and having produced such good chicks i have kept quite a few of them!
Can it be that the unaffected chicks will be ok or will they be carrying the virus which will manifest itself further down the line ?

[skysmum]

Hi naldy, i too had three chick's from parents that showed no sign of french moult and one turned out to be a sufferer. I def would not breed from this bird as the chances are it will be passed on and i didn't breed the parents again so i think it can skip a generation. I would dearly love to get a new female to go with one of the non affected brothers but i don't want to risk this being passed on through him even though he does not suffer from it himself. Hope this helps.

[naldy]

Not good news ,i was hoping someone would come on here and say i could breed the non affected chicks,but i knew in my heart that was probably not to be the case,thanks for the reply tho skysmum,if anyone else has a different opinion on things,id be grateful to hear it.

[ianb]

I would'nt use the affected bird/s to breed with,but there is no reason not to use the unaffected birds,i have had the occasional french moulter in a nest over the years,it's brothers and sisters have produced well for me.