Well, that is one philosophy certainly. And I respect you for it. My own is very different. I don't particularly like the human race, and would do NOTHING to prevent it's extinction from the earth in order to allow other species to recover form our human "meddlings".Dorkings are one of the parent breeds for Large Fowl Faverolles,so it is more like going back to the source then bringing in another breed... BTW I have the support of my breed club and many LF Faverolles breeders/mentors in my project, I even have an ongoing article in our club newsletter. If you do not have the genes needed in an available population of animals then you have no choice but to go to an outside source... and Faverolles have been suffering from gene depression for several decades, primarally due to their being so few people actually working with them. Our National meet had only 7 birds, a master breeder and one of his buyers. The biggest show in the last 40 years was held recently at the Eastern Poultry Congress, I believe there were 22 birds in all classes, 6 of which were Cackle hatchery stock, another 5 belonged to a woman who had them in a laying only flock- when one of her pullets took best of breed we all begged her to consider taking home a free male... in the end she "loaned" her winning pullet to a breeder in Maine.the remaining birds were all either fro Dick Boulangers flock, or like my hen were directly from it give or take a generation. I was still very pleased my hen took best in her class of 5 out of 3 exhibitors, even though she has never laid more then 2 eggs a week in her entire life (she is 4) and NONE of her sons made it to the freezer for human consumption... although I am certain the dog was pleased with that even if I was not. Breeding for the desired traits quickly leads to major issues due to the lack of diversity in Faverolles gene pool; beardlessness, split wing, fertility issues, vigor (all my second year chicks in one of my pens needed assistance to hatch) and many others will quickly make any Fav flock a nightmare for all but the most dedicated of breeders... so you will have to pardon me if after 8 years of working with them (again, I also briefly had them in the 90's until a common virus killed the entire flock) and many long discussions with breeders who have had them for years, if I am the rebel that goes "outside of the box" to try to fix a problem with the breed I love... I am sure if your breed was as troubled, you would do the same.
Never mind about chicken breeds.
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