Famous Hatchery 'Pure Bred' Appearances

[OhZark Biddies]

I thought plim-ith also, but then you made me think about it.

this guy says it in the first few seconds of the video

 

[Tesumph]

I actually don't know what the pronunciation for Plymouth Rock is and I've been raising them for years. Is it pronounced Plymouth or Plih-myth?

It’s the second one, “plimith.”

 

[Kessel23]

If anyone is bored while waiting for BH to post the next breed, here is a video of a rooster eating a cobra-

 

[nessa.morg]

@BlackHackle can you do brown leghorns and buff laced polish???

 

[varidgerunner]

Hatcheries in some cases have their own birds, but usually buy eggs from breeders. I always used to figure the in house birds were some blend of leghorn and RIR, and then they just bred in the right comb and color, leg feathering etc. I now know that it is just the way chickens revert to mediocrity without intensive selection.

If they source from a breeder, if I was that breeder, and a hatchery was going to sell my birds for far less than what I was charging, but I was going to make it up in volume of sales, they would NOT be getting eggs from my top shelf birds. They would be getting eggs from birds that I normally would have culled. I would still be selling breeding stock at normal breeding stock prices.

Chickens have a tendency to revert to a basic form. If careful attention is not paid to keeping birds that produce birds of the proper type, they easily revert to the basic barnyard fowl with various color and comb type, leg color, etc.

If a breeder was meeting hatchery volume demands, it would be tempting/necessary to not cull heavily. Culling is what keeps birds "right", throwing 20 hens in with a rooster to meet egg demand is what gives backyard breeders, and hatchery suppliers alike, basic, ordinary chickens of various colors and flavors. You could take any of the "good" breeder birds in the pictures, put them in the wrong hands and turn out birds in the "hatchery" category quite consistently, in vast numbers, almost guaranteed.

Breeders are prepared to do things like cull an entire line, keep back extra cockerels, test breed new blood, drive halfway across the country for breeding stock, pay lots of money for breeding stock, single mate, grow out birds completely before picking breeding stock, take birds to a show in order to get another, experienced person's (judge's) opinion on the results of their breeding program, and a host of other things. This is why their birds look the way they do. This is why they are more expensive. Few realize the work that goes into this type of operation. It would be very possible to sell birds for $100 each and make far less profit than the hatcheries do on their $0.99 chicks.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Dang!!! On the cobra

 

[bobbi-j]

My chickens are all hatchery stock, and it shows. I have been enjoying the discussions on this thread, and hope they keep coming. Both the discussions and the pictures. It's fun to see the differences.

 

[BantyChooks]

Want to do partridge (or white, don't care) Chanteclers? I have some pictures in mind if you would like links to them.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Dang!!! On the cobra

Obviously a hatchery quality cobra....

 

[nessa.morg]

Oooo maybe a Partridge Silkie @BlackHackle ??? Are Partridge silkies recognizes in sop?