Can you create and/or patent a new chicken breed? How????

[saladin]

If you wanted APA recognition:


Write a standard description, submit it along with affadavits (I can't spell) from 5 different people who have raise the breed for 5 years: then a qualifying meet would be held at which there must be a certain number of birds. It use to be 50 but I'm thinking the number is larger now.

 

[saladin]

If you want to commercialize the breed:

You'd either have a hatchery to begin carrying them and do some fancy internet marketing OR

Contact one of the Land Grant Colleges and try to persuade one of them to run some type of test with your birds. If they did then you'd be set financially to market the bird to commercial hatcheries or through some group like SunKist.

 

[stoneunhenged]

Citron_d'uccle :

Sorry for the confusion. Let me say right now, I have NO intention of patenting animals or anything else. Wrong use of that text for lack of a better word.

Basically if I created a breed that had desirable traits, how would I gain recognition for the breed and how would I go about getting recognised for creating it? Let's say, again 'hypothetically', that I created a breed that would reach a weight desirable for butcher at 10-12 weeks, that would lay 200+ dark brown eggs per year, were great foragers, and never had health problems due to size, breed or growth. If after 5-6 generations I could get it to breed true, how would I then gain recognition for the breed as well as myself as a breeder.

The Freedom Ranger is a good example of what you're trying to accomplish. A recognizable chicken with postive attributes, a cool name, good marketing. Lots of effort over a period of years.​

 

[Gypsy07]

Citron_d'uccle :

Quote:
saladin- this was pretty much how I would have responded to your insulting post as well. The BYC rules state NO TROLLING, CAUSING CONFLICTS, ETC. YOU HAVE FLAMED FELLOW BYCers REPEATEDLY IN 36 DIFFERENT POSTS CONCERNING NEW BREEDS. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING PRODUCTIVE TO THE FORUM TO POST, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GO ELSEWHERE!

I didn't think Saladin was being insulting. Just stating a strongly held opinion quite firmly. I was enjoying the opportunity for discussion! Each point s/he made in response to my post made me think about something I hadn't previously considered, which is the kind of discussion I like.

It sounds like the OP would be looking at going the APA route for breed recognition. Cool!

I also like the name Freedom Ranger. The hybrids I keep are called Black Rocks, which are a cross between RIR roos and Plymouth Rock hens. They're not just a basic cross, they've been carefully selected and developed over the last couple of decades by just one person. I think this original person must have patented the name or something, cause here's in the UK there's only one hatchery that's allowed to use the name 'Black Rock'. Other RIR/Rock crosses are called Rhode Rocks or something similar. I shall have to ask how ownership of the name came about - the hatchery is just 5 minutes away from me.​

 

[wclawrence]

Citron_d'uccle :

Sorry for the confusion. Let me say right now, I have NO intention of patenting animals or anything else. Wrong use of that text for lack of a better word.

Basically if I created a breed that had desirable traits, how would I gain recognition for the breed and how would I go about getting recognised for creating it? Let's say, again 'hypothetically', that I created a breed that would reach a weight desirable for butcher at 10-12 weeks, that would lay 200+ dark brown eggs per year, were great foragers, and never had health problems due to size, breed or growth. If after 5-6 generations I could get it to breed true, how would I then gain recognition for the breed as well as myself as a breeder.

Show the hypothetical bird to your fellow BYCers. I think that is the answer to "how to get recognition." The rest should follow right up.​

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Right now, it's not legal to patent a breed of animal, but plants, yes. In my opinion, it shouldn't ever be.

 

[Jvanginault87]

Yes you can develop and patent a new species of any animal or life form so long as it is genetically unique and can be replicated by natural or Un natural means. Such as glow fish, they are unique because they had a jellyfish gene spliced into their DNA but are infertile. So in a legally speaking manner yes. As for having such breed recognized by a group like the APA you must have the 5 generations by 5 breeders for 5 years and submit all the paperwork and breed development forms and so on.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I found this thread so does anyone know if I could take my brown egg layers to get some sort of dark brown gene in them to lay dark brown eggs

 

[dheltzel]

Yes you can develop and patent a new species of any animal or life form so long as it is genetically unique and can be replicated by natural or Un natural means. Such as glow fish, they are unique because they had a jellyfish gene spliced into their DNA but are infertile. So in a legally speaking manner yes. As for having such breed recognized by a group like the APA you must have the 5 generations by 5 breeders for 5 years and submit all the paperwork and breed development forms and so on.

Glofish are not at all infertile. I know people that have bred them by the hundred in their tanks. If they were infertile there would be no need to patent them, the patent is to protect the market and ensure that the "right" people get a cut of every one sold.

 

[dheltzel]

I found this thread so does anyone know if I could take my brown egg layers to get some sort of dark brown gene in them to lay dark brown eggs

Sure, just get a roo of a breed that lays dark eggs - Welsummer, Marans, etc.
That will definitely darken the eggs, but they will probably not be as dark as the original roos ancestors, your lighter colored hens will dilute the color some, but probably make them better layers. I get some beautiful eggs the color of chocolate milk from some hybrids with Welsummers.