As many of you might already have this same feature set up on eggbid. Like those of you who do, I get an email from eggbid with it's auctions of intrest to me. Lately I have noticed a seller posting hatching eggs from "Hattrick" and "other noted" lines. Claiming in the Auction title that these are "Hattrick" silkies.
Ok I want to get something straight. If you breed one person's silkie line.. with another silkie line.. its no longer any of those two lines. It's a new line all together. I HATE it when people say "Oh well all my birds are such and such's line." when they have like 4 or 5 different lines all cramed in together, mixing it all up.
These breeders worked hard to claim a line. They don't need people using their success, as a tool to get sales. If someone who doesn't know anything about the original breeder's line, sees some piss poor silkies hatching out looking like crap cause they got all scrambled up in other lines, then it will make a bad reputation for the original breeder's line.
If I could report on eggbid about this issue I would. But it seems eggbid doesn't give a hoot.
Name it after your own line! Then when the birds come out looking like crap people can't blame it on the person's name your using! They can blame it on you! And you wonder why they don't show any photos of all the birds they gather the eggs from. Just one of the "Noted line" hens. Cause they likely are all total FAIL.
P.S. Here is the auction that got me started.
http://www.eggbid.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1240196156
Ok I want to get something straight. If you breed one person's silkie line.. with another silkie line.. its no longer any of those two lines. It's a new line all together. I HATE it when people say "Oh well all my birds are such and such's line." when they have like 4 or 5 different lines all cramed in together, mixing it all up.
These breeders worked hard to claim a line. They don't need people using their success, as a tool to get sales. If someone who doesn't know anything about the original breeder's line, sees some piss poor silkies hatching out looking like crap cause they got all scrambled up in other lines, then it will make a bad reputation for the original breeder's line.
If I could report on eggbid about this issue I would. But it seems eggbid doesn't give a hoot.
Name it after your own line! Then when the birds come out looking like crap people can't blame it on the person's name your using! They can blame it on you! And you wonder why they don't show any photos of all the birds they gather the eggs from. Just one of the "Noted line" hens. Cause they likely are all total FAIL.
P.S. Here is the auction that got me started.
http://www.eggbid.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=1240196156
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