Is there such a thing as a patent for chicken breeds?

[talkinboutchickens]

Hello,
I didn't know what to put this under because this is quite a random thread.
But let's say that I make up a whole new chicken breed by combining different breeds. Is there such thing as a patent for chicken breeds? Like if I didn't want anyone else to be able to sell that breed in a business except for me? Because I really want to breed my own breeds and to be the ONLY PERSON that you could get that specific hybrid from.
This is a very odd question and I will honestly be very surprised if anyone is able to answer it!
Thanks so much in advance

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Mosaics had something like that I think for a year or so, but I don't know exactly

 

[The Moonshiner]

Hello,
I didn't know what to put this under because this is quite a random thread.
But let's say that I make up a whole new chicken breed by combining different breeds. Is there such thing as a patent for chicken breeds? Like if I didn't want anyone else to be able to sell that breed in a business except for me? Because I really want to breed my own breeds and to be the ONLY PERSON that you could get that specific hybrid from.
This is a very odd question and I will honestly be very surprised if anyone is able to answer it!
Thanks so much in advance

Ya, kind of, sort of.
I know Isa Browns have "patented genetics" and I'd guess there's others. Probably some strains of meat birds also.

 

[Debbie292d]

According to this post, you have to breed them true for five years, then apply to the APA.

My knowledge of the APA is it's very tough to get them to approve a breed. For example, there are those who have been trying to get various silkie variations passed. The one they'll never get passed is trying to call satin silkies just satins.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

According to th

According to this post, you have to breed them true for five years, then apply to the APA.

My knowledge of the APA is it's very tough to get them to approve a breed. For example, there are those who have been trying to get various silkie variations passed. The one they'll never get passed is trying to call satin silkies just satins.

is post, you have to breed them true for five years, then apply to the APA.

My knowledge of the APA is it's very tough to get them to approve a breed. For example, there are those who have been trying to get various silkie variations passed. The one they'll never get passed is trying to call satin silkies just satins.

That is just to have a breed approved in the Standard

 

[Debbie292d]

Ya, kind of, sort of.
I know Isa Browns have "patented genetics" and I'd guess there's others. Probably some strains of meat birds also.

But having patents on them must not prevent others from buying/breeding them apparently.

 

[The Moonshiner]

According to this post, you have to breed them true for five years, then apply to the APA.

My knowledge of the APA is it's very tough to get them to approve a breed. For example, there are those who have been trying to get various silkie variations passed. The one they'll never get passed is trying to call satin silkies just satins.

I know they've been working for Legbars for a while too.

 

[Debbie292d]

That is just to have a breed approved in the Standard

Not sure what they're after as I stopped going to the Silkie site on Facebook as there are about a dozen women in there who would dare tell me my satin silkie, bred from two silkies, was not a silkie any longer. Somehow they think only that particular feather type removes the breed, yet the frizzle, paint, cuckoo, or no other feather type does.

I know a master breeder a couple hours from here I spoke to about this and he told me they're cuckoo themselves. It'll never happen.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Meyer Hatchery's Steele Egger Bantams are an example, though they're not a purebreed. It says not Eligible for Wholesale, or Resale.

Samething with the Lisa Steele's Cookies, & Cream Day Old Chicks.

Adding to the list, Also the Steele Eggers.

 

[The Moonshiner]

But having patents on them must not prevent others from buying/breeding them apparently.

Getting the true parent stock would be the hurdle.
Their recipe is as secretive as the Colonel's.
I'd guarantee if somehow you did and then started selling first generation "Isa Browns" that you'd get shut down.