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I agree with your statement. If a person buys the feed and does the work they should be able to do whatever they would like. The only drawback is if the cross offspring are sold all accross the USA as pure Marans then this is where the problem comes in for me. That out of breed cross will take many years to breed back out of the Marans, and a good example of this is the PENE cross being made in the past and present.
Penedesencas? What are they being crossed with?
Isn't outcrossing a certain breed to another to achieve a new color or variety considered a... project?
I understand your concern snowbird, about folks selling their project culls, then those culls being bred under false pretenses and as "true breeds" when clearly they lack so many qualities of the original breed. A great example of this I feel is the Lavender Orpington wave that's taken off. Some of those birds look NOTHING like what a Orp should...
I think with any project, it's up to the originator to be responsible in how he or she disposes/culls/rehomes/etc. of those birds that don't fit within their project standards.
I agree with your statement. If a person buys the feed and does the work they should be able to do whatever they would like. The only drawback is if the cross offspring are sold all accross the USA as pure Marans then this is where the problem comes in for me. That out of breed cross will take many years to breed back out of the Marans, and a good example of this is the PENE cross being made in the past and present.
Penedesencas? What are they being crossed with?
Isn't outcrossing a certain breed to another to achieve a new color or variety considered a... project?
I understand your concern snowbird, about folks selling their project culls, then those culls being bred under false pretenses and as "true breeds" when clearly they lack so many qualities of the original breed. A great example of this I feel is the Lavender Orpington wave that's taken off. Some of those birds look NOTHING like what a Orp should...
I think with any project, it's up to the originator to be responsible in how he or she disposes/culls/rehomes/etc. of those birds that don't fit within their project standards.
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