"Breeding mutts worsens the poultry hobby for everyone"???

[Cattitude]

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[mommissan]

12 mutts and love them all! Imagine if people weren't allowed to cross breed?

 

[mommissan]

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and here's one of my mutts.. love this guy.. and i know the "recipe" that made him!
http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x340/Seasins/Poultry/Jack9.jpg
http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x340/Seasins/Poultry/Jack4a.jpg

Hey! I've got a mutt that looks a lot like him! i hope he turns out as gorgeous as yours! BTW... my kids are mutts too. Anyone offended?

 

[FourPawz]

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I don't see why you can't have different breeds. They can run together until you want to hatch some purebreds. You simply pen the breeds separately to collect purebred eggs (you need to wait about 3 weeks to get eggs to hatch). That way, you preserve rare breeds while enjoying more than one type bird.

I like both purebreds and mixed birds. I've got a very interesting frizzled, naked neck whatchamacallit cockerel. He's not purebred, but it doesn't bother him one bit. He's got all the self-confidence in the world

 

[galanie]

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I don't see why you can't have different breeds. They can run together until you want to hatch some purebreds. You simply pen the breeds separately to collect purebred eggs (you need to wait about 3 weeks to get eggs to hatch). That way, you preserve rare breeds while enjoying more than one type bird.

I like both purebreds and mixed birds. I've got a very interesting frizzled, naked neck whatchamacallit cockerel. He's not purebred, but it doesn't bother him one bit. He's got all the self-confidence in the world

Exactly. Both are spot on it.

Isolating the purebred for hatching eggs with the same breed (purebred) of roo in the flock is my strategy as well. I'm crossing him with another breed, intentionally, as well, but don't plan to sell any of those crosses. Even if I don't misrepresent the crosses, there's too big a chance that the buyer might somewhere down the line, so no, those crosses aren't leaving my property. I don't want anyone ever to have a reason to say I'm selling Mutts for Purebreds.

 

[Moochie]

Speaking of mutts.. I've always wondered where white chickens came from. Or what the oldest chicken breed is. I don't think every chicken came directly from red jungle fowl, there has to be other old breeds.

 

[citychickx6]

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Off topic a bit but does that mean I can call my weimeriner/German wire haired pointers.......German Wired Weimeriners? Everyone knows German engineering is the best.

 

[bustermommy]

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Off topic a bit but does that mean I can call my weimeriner/German wire haired pointers.......German Wired Weimeriners? Everyone knows German engineering is the best.

How about Germy Weimpointers?

 

[Candiss]

I love my mutts too... To each their own, it is wrong to force your opinion on others.

 

[citychickx6]

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Off topic a bit but does that mean I can call my weimeriner/German wire haired pointers.......German Wired Weimeriners? Everyone knows German engineering is the best.

How about Germy Weimpointers?

Or Pointy Germans?