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Walt!


Yup, I'm a snob. Like a lot of people, I started with hatchery birds. (who will have a life with me for their life - kids named them) But then I was "hooked" and moved on to the good stuff.
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I do have some mutts, but my mutts are from breeder stock, not hatchery stock - so they are better mutts, right?
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I went to the local fair this year (I know, not the best place to go) and I was HORRIFIED at what was "labeled" a welsummer. Didn't look the least bit like a welsummer should look. (pretty bad when you have to look at the tag to figure out what it was) There were a few good looking Serama's, but other than that they were all bad examples of the breeds.

And anyone that says it's just a chicken has never owned chickens.


I just shake my head at those people that dress up their dogs, or worse, carry them around in those slings for breastfeeding children.

I wouldn't be caught dead with one of these things:
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Seems to me the thing that REALLY distinguishes the chicken snobs from the non-snobs is the fact that we KNOW that not all chickens that lay blue/green eggs are Araucanas and/or Ameraucanas. We also know that chickens do much better on more than just cracked corn and table scraps. And - it doesn't bother us a bit to label them "mutts" even if they come out of eggs produced by two "purebred" parents.

I'm quite happy to own them all - completely honest about each and every one of them - and truly delighted when one comes out looking just a wee bit closer to SOP than the one before.
 
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Yep, mine is a Black Ameraucana as well! If I don't pick her up and carry her, she'll jump on top of my head and ride there. Got a Blue boy that does the same nonsense and another Blue (female?) in the grow out pen that seems to be heading down the same road ...

Gonna need a few of those carriers ....
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Hmmmmm...I have named four or five birds in 45+ years of keeping poultry. One of my favorites was "M.G". a gray Call female. I named her after her breeder M. G. Oakford whose accomplishments in Call ducks will probably never be duplicated or surpassed. It was a special bird. I used to joke that at least half of her wins were on personality alone. She beat just under 50k birds in her 4 year show career. I retired her early because she was such a cool bird. She was a show bird in every respect, but also a pet.

The rest of the birds have a number. Can you imagine what it is like to be a judge and a snob?
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