Well, "moderator Fred" knows that that he would quite unlikely to find any birds, at any of the major hatcheries that are bred true the Standard for the breed they are claimed to be. He also thinks there's an awful lot about poultry that Chicken Paradise doesn't know yet, but he wishes Chicken...
Hatcheries "fudge" all kinds of descriptions and take great liberties with what they call this "breed" or that "breed". It is called marketing and not everything on the internet is true. Shocking, I know.
The only place you'll find the breed police is at an APA sanctioned show where through...
All these super, brown egg layers, that the genetics corps have produced very, very likely have Leghorn, and possibly Brown Leghorn on the male side. Since so many of the genetics companies are European, who knows what lines they've used, over there, that we don't know or see much of here in...
While they are all red x white, they are not the same. Almost as many "recipes" or "formulas" as there are hatcheries.
Go here to the genetics company, just one genetics company, and you'll see a half dozen "mixes". There is also HyLine Genetics, a different corporation. It is not true...