The Scots Dumpy

Matilda hen said:

whalla! rocky my pb scots dumpy , and i have many eggs!

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I love his color! It took me a second to realize that if he didn't have dominant white, he would be a basic rhode island red color. Paul, if you import some cuckoo scots dumpy's, you should try for some other colors as well, just for variety

Matilda hen said:

hi , i have cuckoo scots dumpys alright , i hatch them , although i prefer my rooster rocky , he to me is a lot more unusual and charming , but im in ireland , not the US

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We are supposed to be saving up for a vacation in Ireland in 2015. Would it be possible to get the paperwork done for import of some of Rocky's eggs? I know that involves some vet inspections on that end.
Where do I go to look for the step by step guidelines to do something like that?

I really want some eggs or chicks if anyone has any

Found it interesting reading on scotsdumpy.co.uk at Kintaline Plant and Poultry in Scotland referencing that the equivalent Kreupers (Scots Dumpy) in Germany are not allowed to breed anything with a certain death rate: "In Germany where it seems they have some wonderful Dumpies - called Kreupers - breeders are not allowed to breed short to short as their animal welfare rules do not allow a breeding that has a certain death rate."

I love it when there are rules to not breed certain death genes - wonder if that applies to the difficult-to-breed, tufted, tail-less Araucanas also as you don't see them much in Europe or the U.K. What the U.K. calls "Araucanas" are equivalent to the USA "Ameraucanas" having both tails and muffs/beards - as opposed to the USA "Araucana" which is not muffed/bearded but tufted and with no tail and has high mortality if not bred correctly to reduce the lethal hatches. I'm not a fan of breeding lethal genes of any animal no matter how careful the breeding program as there is never a 100% total of offspring that hatch looking right. RIR roos and hens produce 100% offspring looking exactly like their parents but that's never the case with lethal gene breedings. My thoughts only and to each his own - Smiles

In the canine world Old English Bulldogs have been humanely bred recently to have longer legs to support those massive chests. Now if they can just fix the lower jaws not to jut so grotesquely it would seem more humane as birthing is difficult without a snout on a pup - many have to be delivered Cesarean to avoid losing litters. My uncle's OEB 60 years ago didn't have the grotesque pushed-in face of recent decades breeding and his OEB had an adorable and pleasantly formed face with only slight puggishness.

Again just my thoughts and there will be many opposed and many in support of such thinking. I love animals of all kinds but just approaching from a humane look at the lethal genes - just something not natural to perpetuate and in the wild Nature would cull this flaw to only perpetuate strong genes.