YHF wrote:
The same horrible scenario is currently going on in Orpingtons, Polish, Sussex, and Brahmas. Ridiculous and unsophisticated colors and types are being mused about on the internet by people with very limited understanding. They, in turn, in their ignorance, fill other new-comers up with stories of bogus glory. All of a sudden folks without a lick of standard-bred experience want to get their rubbish fowl into the SOP. When their inexperience is met with resistence from the APA/ABA communities, they assume it is because the APA/ABA community is unmalleable or exclusive, it doesn't occur to them that communities that are 140 years old and 100 years old respectively have dealt with a different worthless fad (or ten) every decade and have come to understand that they do much more harm than good.
It's rather frustrating that people have to do that to such good breeds. Brahmas have probably a dozen of "new" varieties. Just about none of them have that true Brahma type like they are suppose to. I know of just ONE person that is working with another variety and is doing so very successfully. His Brahmas would put A LOT of the standard Brahmas to shame. I do agree with threeriverschick in that the varieties that are already there should be the number one priority and many times they just aren't. Bantam white brahmas are accepted by the ABA and I can not find anyone that has them. I've come to the conclusion that they are extinct. I would love to one day recreate them and do it correctly. The darks and blacks( bantams ) also have few breeders.
The same horrible scenario is currently going on in Orpingtons, Polish, Sussex, and Brahmas. Ridiculous and unsophisticated colors and types are being mused about on the internet by people with very limited understanding. They, in turn, in their ignorance, fill other new-comers up with stories of bogus glory. All of a sudden folks without a lick of standard-bred experience want to get their rubbish fowl into the SOP. When their inexperience is met with resistence from the APA/ABA communities, they assume it is because the APA/ABA community is unmalleable or exclusive, it doesn't occur to them that communities that are 140 years old and 100 years old respectively have dealt with a different worthless fad (or ten) every decade and have come to understand that they do much more harm than good.
It's rather frustrating that people have to do that to such good breeds. Brahmas have probably a dozen of "new" varieties. Just about none of them have that true Brahma type like they are suppose to. I know of just ONE person that is working with another variety and is doing so very successfully. His Brahmas would put A LOT of the standard Brahmas to shame. I do agree with threeriverschick in that the varieties that are already there should be the number one priority and many times they just aren't. Bantam white brahmas are accepted by the ABA and I can not find anyone that has them. I've come to the conclusion that they are extinct. I would love to one day recreate them and do it correctly. The darks and blacks( bantams ) also have few breeders.
