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The dirty cheats!
LOL, yeah, I know. (Of course, I guess it's nothing to laugh-out-loud about.)
Almost all hatcheries in the USA are concerned primarily about one thing: quantity. Forget quality. The more birds they sell, the more money they make. It doesn't matter to them whether or not their Orloffs are actually just Ameracauna crosses, or whether or not their Ameracaunas are Easter Eggers, or whether or not their Rhode Island Reds are commercial hybrids. The almighty dollar is their idol, and quality is a threat to their graven image.
Hatcheries usually do not exist to preserve chickens, or even to necessarily promote chickens. They exist to make money.
There is at least one exception I know of. Sandhill Preservation Center is a small hatchery that works hard with what facilities it has to preserve purebred, rare poultry. Their birds are not perfect (no hatchery bird is), but they are usually purebred and thereby serve as fair representations of the breeds they sell.
However, that's the only exception I know of
Absolutely right Gresh. We are called to be stewards of all creation. That would include livestock, etc., right? So we as breeders should try to preserve the best, most honest stock possible. But it's not just the hatcheries. The odd breeder has no repeat business. I can think of at least two. One sold us 13 'Araucana' chicks. 'All hens'. 4 EE hens; 6 EE roos; 1 White Leghorn roo, 1 d'Anver/EE cross, and 1 Faverolle/EE cross. I like what's happening to the Araucana breed. No really.
The dirty cheats!
LOL, yeah, I know. (Of course, I guess it's nothing to laugh-out-loud about.)
Hatcheries usually do not exist to preserve chickens, or even to necessarily promote chickens. They exist to make money.
There is at least one exception I know of. Sandhill Preservation Center is a small hatchery that works hard with what facilities it has to preserve purebred, rare poultry. Their birds are not perfect (no hatchery bird is), but they are usually purebred and thereby serve as fair representations of the breeds they sell.
However, that's the only exception I know of
Absolutely right Gresh. We are called to be stewards of all creation. That would include livestock, etc., right? So we as breeders should try to preserve the best, most honest stock possible. But it's not just the hatcheries. The odd breeder has no repeat business. I can think of at least two. One sold us 13 'Araucana' chicks. 'All hens'. 4 EE hens; 6 EE roos; 1 White Leghorn roo, 1 d'Anver/EE cross, and 1 Faverolle/EE cross. I like what's happening to the Araucana breed. No really.
