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To me, that would be a good idea.
I feel many would find it useful as there are differences when you have a breed with both sizes. The weight in the standard for both large fowl and bantam is the biggest obvious difference. In addition the ABA in most cases recognizes many more colors than the APA. So a listing of the color standard for each would help folks.
I get e-mails every week from folks wondering if this or that is a standard color in one of my breeds.
Personally, I'm a bantam guy, so if it were a listing only for large fowl, I wouldnt even look at it.
I would be more than happy to help with any in my specialty breeds. all bantams in D'anver, phoenix (large and bantam) , crevecoeur, houdan, ohiki, sumatra, and a few others if need be. Also have had several years of keeping d'uccles, sultans, polish, long crowers, silkies, and old english.
Maybe one Idea to keep from having so many pages would be to have 1 page per breed but, include the standard for both sizes (if applicable) Good pics of nice quality representatives of the breed in as many colors as possible, as well as a listing of the standard colors for the breed in the APA and the ABA as these almost always vary. Having someone that actually works with the breed and has done so for year I feel would help too. This way, the info is usually going to be accurate. No need in having all this is the breed info is not accurate. Refer to my original post to see what I mean. We have a great group of folks here, and many like to help out. But in this case, the info provided is in many cases swaying a new comer either to or away from a breed. For this fact alone, we need to be sure the info provided in a BYC Breeds Info Listing is as accurate as possible.
