Oh, my, that was a while ago! I believe this is the picture you're thinking of? Miss Elly at under a year old. I can hardly believe I'm saying this, but she'll be 3 this year!
Been a love since day one, though!Abra (the Silkied Cochin baby) has a lot of the same traits, but she's a lot sassier. It comes from being a bantam Cochin, I think. All the sweetness of the large Cochins with twice the attitude!
Cochins have definitely gotten a firm hold on second place for my favorite breed, only second to my sweet Dorkings. 
The similarity is rather uncanny, though, isn't it?
Not disagreeing, I was just saying that the lacing on that Barnevelder is, well, not great, to say the least...
Also not disagreeing that a poor quality specimen is still technically a specimen of the breed, but it's like the hatchery Rhode Island Reds that were being talked about a few pages back. At a certain point, the quality is so poor that it hardly represents what the breed should be. And any good breeder would say as much, or at least mention that the bird is not good quality, certainly not claiming that he is 'good looking' when he barely looks like the breed they're claiming him to be. Same goes for a throwback to an outcross. You just don't advertise those as the real deal unless you don't know what you're talking about. There are plenty of instances of, for example, Silver Ameraucanas being crossed to Black Ameraucanas to improve on size and type, but the early F# crosses, and even later ones that show leakage or inappropriate coloration, are NOT sold as the real deal--even though for all purposes, they are pure Ameraucanas! That's simply dishonest, especially when you're claiming said bird to be a 'good looking' specimen. I stand by what I said, those birds are either very poor quality or they're mixed breeds. Maybe the people who posted that ad don't know any better, as is the case for the thousands of 'Americaunas' and 'Aracaunas' and 'Americana / Aracanas' that are still being sold by backyard breeders who have no clue of what a true Araucana or Ameraucana looks like, but that still doesn't make it an accurate representative of the breed.
As for the two back in January, the reason why I keep saying they look like Polish x Easter-eggers is because there is no reason to believe there's any kind of British Tailed Araucana in their mix. The person didn't mention the words 'British' or 'Tailed' at all in the ad, just 'Araucana', which as you know is a name commonly tacked on to feed store Easter-eggers. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that they got 'Araucanas' from the feed store and crossed those with Polish to get those birds. That's all I'm saying there.
I said no offense meant because I didn't mean to offend with anything I said, and same goes with this post. Well, and I have no spine.
But it really bugs me to see breeds misrepresented, and I like to help educate, especially in cases like this when there is already enough confusion about, well, pretty much all the '-cana' breeds!
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