Changes in Endangered poultry list!

[greenfamilyfarms]

How are these numbers tallied?

 

[Campine Lover]

First of all .... the Standard Modern Games are what they mean.
They measure it by QUALITY BREEDING FLOCKS, NOT HATCHERIES.
Check out the website!
http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/wtchlist.html

 

[poltroon]

Just a comment that this is an endangered BREEDS list, not endangered species. It may seem like a small thing, but endangered species is a federal designation that requires permits to keep those animals. The endangered breeds list is an informal list kept by ALBC.

Carry on!

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

This is just more reason for me to raise more chanteclers!!!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Ah, yeah they do count hatcheries:

How does ALBC determine the status or conservation category for each poultry breed?

Poultry censusing is different than censusing for mammalian livestock. Poultry censusing requires a much more extensive approach to get a comprehensive picture. With poultry, ALBC contacts hatcheries, known major breeders, and ALBC members. ALBC also sends out surveys through the American Poultry Association, breed clubs, and the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities. ALBC advertises its poultry census in magazines and makes the survey available on the ALBC website for anyone and everyone. We try to reach as many people as possible. We also gather information from individuals.

Ref: http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/cpl_explained.html​

 

[CoopCrazy]

This may sound stupid but I will ask anyways. Are they becoming endangered due to cross breeding ?? I am just wondering if it is from mixing breeds or something else...

 

[Bantimna]

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x2?

 

[Bantimna]

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Ah, yeah they do count hatcheries:

How does ALBC determine the status or conservation category for each poultry breed?

Poultry censusing is different than censusing for mammalian livestock. Poultry censusing requires a much more extensive approach to get a comprehensive picture. With poultry, ALBC contacts hatcheries, known major breeders, and ALBC members. ALBC also sends out surveys through the American Poultry Association, breed clubs, and the Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities. ALBC advertises its poultry census in magazines and makes the survey available on the ALBC website for anyone and everyone. We try to reach as many people as possible. We also gather information from individuals.

Ref: http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/cpl_explained.html
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If they do count hatcheries, how many are up to the real standard and are "true" to how the breed should be.......

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

That list makes me feel special. I'm raising Campines & Yokahamas on the critical list & Lakenvelders on the threatened list.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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A simple answer is yes. When you mix breeds without purpose, you are destroying the original breeds used to create it. If you are going to outcross for new blood in a line, you must know the history of the breed and what traits to look for in outside breeds before you chose one to make the cross. Then you spend a few years breeding back to the breed standard.

Also, people lose interest in the breed they chose for various reasons:

Does not produce (meat or eggs) like they thought

Doesn't mature fast enough

Too aggressive

Too flighty

Market saturation (i.e. they can't make any $$)

A lot of this can be avoided if folks would actually read up on poultry and the various breeds before they make their purposes. Decide if they want cute pets, egg layers, meat birds, exhibition birds, etc... and make their choices accordingly. There is a ton of material out there on poultry and a good portion of it is available online via search engines.

Nearly a decade ago there were more Russian Orloffs than you could shake a stick at. Now it's nearly impossible to find a breeder, without having to go to a hatchery, for stock. I have contacted a lot of folks who kept a flock for about a year, maybe two, and then got rid of them because the birds did not lay well that second year. It's just sad.


Then there are other reasons:

Forced to sell out/reduce stock

Predation

Breeder passed away without leaving their legacy in the proper hands