European Pekins

[roocrazy]

its a FAT runner

 

[StevenW.]

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This is true in many cases. But not all. I think it's because most of the time, Europe imported (from Asia, etc.) or created birds before we had a chance to get our hands on them. So they were working with the birds way before we were. And we have very few breeds bred here, anyway.

But there are some breeds that we actually imported first. I know one is the Sumatra.

And it's not always that they have better quality birds. They often times have entirely different standards (Pekins and Orpingtons, for example).

I do agree that hatcheries are not entirely helpful for the exhibition side of the poultry industry. But they're a really good way for people who just want eggs or meat from their backyard. In this way they don't have to buy something from the supermarket that they don't know the entire story or quality of.

...Did any of that make sense? I'm bad at explaining my opinions.

Kinda.

I was reading somewhere that the Europeans took the New Hampshire Chicken and made it better than any way we could. Now thats pathetic! They are a American breed for crying out loud!
*I gotta find where I read that at..*

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Quote:
This is true in many cases. But not all. I think it's because most of the time, Europe imported (from Asia, etc.) or created birds before we had a chance to get our hands on them. So they were working with the birds way before we were. And we have very few breeds bred here, anyway.

But there are some breeds that we actually imported first. I know one is the Sumatra.

And it's not always that they have better quality birds. They often times have entirely different standards (Pekins and Orpingtons, for example).

I do agree that hatcheries are not entirely helpful for the exhibition side of the poultry industry. But they're a really good way for people who just want eggs or meat from their backyard. In this way they don't have to buy something from the supermarket that they don't know the entire story or quality of.

...Did any of that make sense? I'm bad at explaining my opinions.

Kinda.

I was reading somewhere that the Europeans took the New Hampshire Chicken and made it better than any way we could. Now thats pathetic! They are a American breed for crying out loud!
*I gotta find where I read that at..*

We'll retaliate.... Now where are those Dorkings.... {evil laugh}

 

[Oregon Blues]

[[[[[......but no one from Europe wants to import birds from the US......]]]]

Sorry, but that is not true.

I know a couple of people who have paid the high costs to import geese from the USA into Britain and I know someone in Holland who has imported buff bantam Leghorns from the USA.

I know of one individual person and Greenfire farms who have imported birds into the USA from Britain.

So it doesn't matter which directions the birds are going, they aren't moving much either into or out of the USA. It has a lot more to the very high costs of shipping and quarantine than it does with the quality of the birds.

There are very high quality birds in Europe and there are very high quality birds in the USA. Just because the hatcheries sell a lot of low quality crap and represent mutts as purebreds, that doesn't prove that there are no high quality birds in the USA. Not all the birds in the USA are coming out of the hatcheries.

 

[Sping]

So I was browsing feathersite the other day, on the Pekin page, and I noticed Pekins bred to European standard. They stand like Runners... I thought that was really interesting, and I find them appealing. They look like fat Runners. Does anyone own these???

Feathersite Pekin Page.

I do. I know a few US breeders. Check out FB page Eutopean Pekins

 

[Miss Lydia]

can we see pictures?