Don't "kill" the messenger

[sara]

geareduplyn~ I thought I was the only one confused.

 

[hcammack]

I am also a bit confuzled do you want us to be honest or not I would like to know weather I had a show quality bird or not and if I got cheated.

Henry

 

[seriousbill]

geareduplyn wrote: Does anyone care to interpret for me what Spook said?

I'll take a crack at it

:

It is how you go about it, tact for one thing can open doors for you ! Almost like "there is no I in ameraucana" or "Ameraucana spelled correctly" is yes, needed , yet I have never once spelled it correctly because I never remember to spell it that way!

I think she means that it is best to be tactful when attempting to put the right information out there, but no matter matter how you present it, it won't make people who don't much care, or who are absent-minded, recall the correct information.

If people ask about their birds, then say it looks more like a ____ then a ____. Instead of being bold chested and say how they were cheated and its a pee poor quality bird.

If someone asks, beat around the bush and act like you're not sure even when you are, because a forthright approach might be offensive.

I am so proud of my girls, I know the diff and yet I still call them Ameraucana's even tho most have a straight comb (showing a mixed bird), most people don't care or want to hear me tell them, oh that is a pure bred show quality, rose comb, blue Ameraucana hen. This is a Gains cross with Ameraucana with a blah blah blah.

She still uses the incorrect term because it is easier.

When looking at hybrids, either its a nice bird or not. You can plant the seed of honesty, let them find out the 'rest of the story' as Paul Harvey says...Good day.

It doesn't matter if it is a mix and is called by the name of a purebred if it is an attractive bird. You can hint at a correction, but they must find out the correct information themselves.

Personally, if I've got this right, I don't agree with it at all.​

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I asked a question a while back on this thread and no one has answered it. What color are ameracauna's legs supposed to be?

 

[hcammack]

depends on the color of ameraucana you are talking about I think black has black legs. White has willow legs. Wheaten/ blue wheaten has slate legs. and I am not sure about bbs Pips& peeps and other breeders know more than me and I am really not even sure about these.

Henry

 

[geareduplyn]

Quote:
Slate

 

[pips&peeps]

Blacks and blues can have black legs all the rest must have slate legs.

 

[geareduplyn]

I stand corrected. Jean is right Blacks at least can have Dark Slate to Black legs.

 

[hcammack]

ok never mind LOL I knew it was slate I just remembered wrong with the whites sorry

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

OK thanks I should go check my EEs legs in case MM churned out a good bird (her comb is horrible though).