Famous Hatchery 'Pure Bred' Appearances

[BantyChooks]

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

Yep.

 

[GenevieveHad]

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

Oh my goodness! Did the cobra live?!

 

[BreanneRN]

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.

Very true, and one other thing, hatch and raise a whole lot of birds so they can have that one that is so good it will win at shows...

 

[BlackHackle]

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

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

I'll see what I can do tomorrow. I'm taking a breather tonight lol

 

[ShellyBlanco]

The reviews are generally good info, but there is likely a place for artcles that hold up an example of a high quality specimen of a breed via a few pics, discusses the few faults of that bird... and then does the same for an average quality specimen of the same breed in a comparative manner.

I think many people would find that kind of thing interesting. But of course it would take folks familiar with the SOP of each breed to do this... and require some level of agreement among those people on the aspects of the SOP that are more subjective, and so on.

I have tried using the REVIEWS, there is no way to search it (that I found) and no way to sort it (that I have found). If anybody can turn my lightbulb on I'd appreciate it.

 

[ShellyBlanco]

Hatchery birds aren't bad and probably most chicken owners have had or have hatchery birds. I do show my birds so I breed to the SOP.
One of my champion RIR's.View attachment 1519411
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Eventhough I'm not looking to breed, I love a beautiful bird. I want some of yours, even a faulted one! Mine look nothing like that. All of mine basically look like this. A few have prettier combs than others. I also noticed a few have black tips on their neck feathers. (All hens)

 

[ShellyBlanco]

Interesting chicken in the middle.. I wonder if he meets the SOP.

 

[bobbi-j]

I'll see what I can do tomorrow. I'm taking a breather tonight lol

I'm not sure we can allow that....

 

[ShellyBlanco]

It’s the second one, “plimith.”

I was raised in KY, I say plimuth for the chicken and the car.

 

[BlackHackle]

I'm not sure we can allow that....