Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[duluthralphie]

I feel like I am much too poor, is all, for such testing, but I'd gladly watch other people do it. It's true that there are plenty of bad faith breeders out there, or uneducated breeders.

The whole thing sounds scammy to me.

 

[Bantambird]

The whole thing sounds scammy to me.

Meh your old, though. There are all sorts of genetic tests done on other, more expensive livestock, like horses or breeder cows on prestige lines, I just didn't think it would trickle to chickens, but then again, show chickens exist.

 

[duluthralphie]

Meh your old, though. There are all sorts of genetic tests done on other, more expensive livestock, like horses or breeder cows on prestige lines, I just didn't think it would trickle to chickens, but then again, show chickens exist.

I looked up the cost of running a test, including pads. Reagents and the equipment, plus training and education and it doesn’t add up.

At $35 a pop your not covering the costs. The lowest cost I could find was ~$100.00 not including expendables.

I understand places like ancestry.com does it for $50. However, that is a loss leader so they can sell you their $14.95 or more per month subscription.

Now on high end animals like cattle it makes sense on your breeding stock . But not on your run of a mill Butcher animals.

Definitely not on a chicken.

 

[Bantambird]

I looked up the cost of running a test, including pads. Reagents and the equipment, plus training and education and it doesn’t add up.

At $35 a pop your not covering the costs. The lowest cost I could find was ~$100.00 not including expendables.

I understand places like ancestry.com does it for $50. However, that is a loss leader so they can sell you their $14.95 or more per month subscription.

Now on high end animals like cattle it makes sense on your breeding stock . But not on your run of a mill Butcher animals.

Definitely not on a chicken.

While I agree, some people have money to spend and aren't looking to break even like I am. Which I have really yet to do. I'm a terrible business woman.
Still, it's an interesting idea. If you tested a pair and then went ahead and sold every chick hatched from the pair, technically you could make back your loss.

 

[duluthralphie]

While I agree, some people have money to spend and aren't looking to break even like I am. Which I have really yet to do. I'm a terrible business woman.
Still, it's an interesting idea. If you tested a pair and then went ahead and sold every chick hatched from the pair, technically you could make back your loss.

I doubt there is enough market for birds from tested parents. However, the scam part is someone spending what DNA sequencing and only charging $35 for it.

I have no doubt in the next 5 years there will be a app on our phones to sequence .

 

[Bantambird]

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I doubt there is enough market for birds from tested parents. However, the scam part is someone spending what DNA sequencing and only charging $35 for it.

I have no doubt in the next 5 years there will be a app on our phones to sequence .

I thought of a place it might work. Breeding the rose comb legbars. Because you have to breed back to rose comb leghorns, you might cut down some of your breed back in testing for double blue genes there. Projects never make back their money, otherwise they wouldn't be projects, right?

 

[duluthralphie]

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I thought of a place it might work. Breeding the rose comb legbars. Because you have to breed back to rose comb leghorns, you might cut down some of your breed back in testing for double blue genes there. Projects never make back their money, otherwise they wouldn't be projects, right?

Yep, you would save time. But I have way more time than money

 

[PioneerChicks]

I'm looking for Legbar photos for a BYC article breed quiz. You would get credit. Is anybody interested in sharing a couple?

 

[Deenok]

Heres my cream legbars egg, banty polish egg and midnight majesty marans second egg. I love my babies

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I looked up the cost of running a test, including pads. Reagents and the equipment, plus training and education and it doesn’t add up.

At $35 a pop your not covering the costs. The lowest cost I could find was ~$100.00 not including expendables.

I understand places like ancestry.com does it for $50. However, that is a loss leader so they can sell you their $14.95 or more per month subscription.

Now on high end animals like cattle it makes sense on your breeding stock . But not on your run of a mill Butcher animals.

Definitely not on a chicken.

I talked to a guy at UC Davis said he could probably do it for $10-$20 per bird.