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

[Debbie292d]

Very interesting...So do you mean by breeding true that the chicks won't end up with long legs?

I have no idea, I just searched for a post that might help answer your question. I breed show quality silkies of various feather types and will be experimenting when the new breeding coop is built, but that's nothing new as whatever I mix, I can look up and see what I'll end up with. Ie. Currently I have 6 chicks from two different cuckoo dads and two different black hens, so now I'm determining if the two dads are double-barred or single. That's pretty much the extent of what I do around here.

I buy a lot of hatching eggs from exhibition breeders so I can only assume the parentage.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

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.

Oh that's right!! I also remember seeing those hybrids on their website...So basically Lisa Steele made up that breed and so they name it after her? And she has all the rights to that breed?

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Must've been in the genes of one of them. That happened in my backyard flock, not in my show quality silkies. Those were all hatchery birds I think. We started out rescuing a few, none were satin, but every so often, one would pop out.

We started with her, a white sister, and white rooster, then....

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She was one of their chicks.
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I was appalled that someone would say she's not a silkie anymore!

Then on that silkie site I posted this one, a mottled satin silkie. I bought eggs from a silkie exhibition breeder.
Nope, not a silkie according to them. They don't get silkie is a breed. Silkie is a feather type too, but it's a breed.


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Wow! She is beautiful! I didn't know that silkies could have different feather types! I love the white leakage!

 

[Debbie292d]

Wow! She is beautiful! I didn't know that silkies could have different feather types! I love the white leakage!

She was my example to those "satin silkies aren't silkies" people.

Then what is she? A satin mottled? Satin nor mottled is a breed. She's a satin mottled silkie. 'Satins are a project breed. They are bred to match silkies' SOP, except they have smooth feathers instead of silkie feathers.'

It's really hard for some to understand that the silkie breed has so many varieties.

This is the typical silkie most know. Followed by an example of ones they don't.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

She was my example to those "satin silkies aren't silkies" people.

Then what is she? A satin mottled? Satin nor mottled is a breed. She's a satin mottled silkie. 'Satins are a project breed. They are bred to match silkies' SOP, except they have smooth feathers instead of silkie feathers.'

It's really hard for some to understand that the silkie breed has so many varieties.

This is the typical silkie most know. Followed by an example of ones they don't.

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Wow that's really cool! I never knew that, thanks for sharing

 

[MysteryChicken]

Oh that's right!! I also remember seeing those hybrids on their website...So basically Lisa Steele made up that breed and so they name it after her? And she has all the rights to that breed?

Well, basically not a breed though. They're just Easter Eggers, or Easter Egger mixes anyway.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's some of my Chameleons.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Oh that's right!! I also remember seeing those hybrids on their website...So basically Lisa Steele made up that breed and so they name it after her? And she has all the rights to that breed?

The hatchery has those rights, not her.

 

[MysteryChicken]

To add to the Silkies.
Project Giant Silkie Rooster F2.

He's LF Silkie/Brahma X LF Silkie.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

The hatchery has those rights, not her.

Gotcha...Then why do they name it after her and not "Meyer hatchery cookies and cream egger"?