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"Breeding mutts worsens the poultry hobby for everyone"???
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How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
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The last time I expressed the same opinon as you did in those last couple of sentences concerning who I sell birds too, I was taken to task and called about every name imaginable on this very forum before it was kindly closed.
Seems there are lots of folks that don't feed our birds that love to tell us what to do with them.
The last time I expressed the same opinon as you did in those last couple of sentences concerning who I sell birds too, I was taken to task and called about every name imaginable on this very forum before it was kindly closed.
Seems there are lots of folks that don't feed our birds that love to tell us what to do with them.
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Exactly. I have a backyard full of designer chickens myself. I also have a few supposedly purebreds, from a hatchery, and I believe the truth is they are no purer than the rest.
There is a movement out there to "save the (whichever) breed" and proponents feel we should all be working to "improve" these breeds, and even take on a new "endangered" breed. To me this comes under the category, what they do with their birds is their business. They are doing nothing wrong, of course -- but neither am I.
Another thought. There is something to be said for "hybrid vigor." This particular flock of mine is only a few years old yet I think I have already seen the effects of this. With a little luck, crossing different breeds may well result in a larger or healthier breed than rebreeding them together, especially if you have only a small number of birds.
That said, I do love to look at pics of some of the large, beautiful birds that some well known breeders have been working on for years.
Exactly. I have a backyard full of designer chickens myself. I also have a few supposedly purebreds, from a hatchery, and I believe the truth is they are no purer than the rest.
There is a movement out there to "save the (whichever) breed" and proponents feel we should all be working to "improve" these breeds, and even take on a new "endangered" breed. To me this comes under the category, what they do with their birds is their business. They are doing nothing wrong, of course -- but neither am I.
Another thought. There is something to be said for "hybrid vigor." This particular flock of mine is only a few years old yet I think I have already seen the effects of this. With a little luck, crossing different breeds may well result in a larger or healthier breed than rebreeding them together, especially if you have only a small number of birds.
That said, I do love to look at pics of some of the large, beautiful birds that some well known breeders have been working on for years.
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How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
Very pretty actually. Gorgeous colors! One has slight feathering on her legs and a big "bow tie". This is Sally:
And like the rest of my turkens she has been laying very large (long) eggs, right from the start:
How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
Very pretty actually. Gorgeous colors! One has slight feathering on her legs and a big "bow tie". This is Sally:
And like the rest of my turkens she has been laying very large (long) eggs, right from the start:
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I've only had chickens for almost 2 years now so I'm not a pro. I have already learned alot but there is alot more learning to go. If breeding out crosses is really stupid, well then I guess I am stupid. I myself am a cross. I didn't know how to tie my shoes until I was about 7 or 8! I was using velcrow straps for a loooong time..
I bred light sussex with BR and the one roo we kept is rather nice-ish. I can pet him for about a minute before he walks away. I wish we could have gotten some pullets though.
I bred light sussex with BR and the one roo we kept is rather nice-ish. I can pet him for about a minute before he walks away. I wish we could have gotten some pullets though.
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How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
Very pretty actually. Gorgeous colors! One has slight feathering on her legs and a big "bow tie". This is Sally:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/4810_p8020004.jpg
And like the rest of my turkens she has been laying very large (long) eggs, right from the start:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/4810_p9110065_800x600.jpg
Very pretty! I wonder what I'll get from my naked necks, anticipation!
How do the turken/brahma crosses come out? With naked necks?
Very pretty actually. Gorgeous colors! One has slight feathering on her legs and a big "bow tie". This is Sally:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/4810_p8020004.jpg
And like the rest of my turkens she has been laying very large (long) eggs, right from the start:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/4810_p9110065_800x600.jpg
Very pretty! I wonder what I'll get from my naked necks, anticipation!
I was thinking today some people have red chickens some people have red white & even blue chickens.Their still just chickens that love to scratch & peck.
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I just ran across the purist attitude today in something I was reading online, and it was the first time I had encountered this philosophy. The website was championing purebreed chickens, and advising that you pick ONE breed of chicken and STICK TO IT. I guess the whole line of thinking behind that is the fear that everything is getting cross-bred, and the true breeds are in danger of disappearing. I can understand that, but to read it as it was worded came across as: If you're a good chicken owner, you'll have a single breed. If you're irresponsible, you'll insist on having more than one breed which will result in cross-breeding and you are to blame for the true breed going extinct. It made me feel like a lowlife chicken owner. I doubt they meant to come across that way, but when someone insinuates that you're doing damage to the poultry industry by cross-breeding in your flock, it does make you feel a little, I don't know, guilty.
The way I look at it is: a mutt in my yard is a chicken that does not have to live in a cramped, overcrowded, inhumane poultry processing plant, so three cheers for loved and cared-for chickens.
I guess someone could take issue with my snobbery of processing plants.
The way I look at it is: a mutt in my yard is a chicken that does not have to live in a cramped, overcrowded, inhumane poultry processing plant, so three cheers for loved and cared-for chickens.
I guess someone could take issue with my snobbery of processing plants.
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