Old and Rare Breeds

[Chris09]

saladin,
That first Asil that you posted what line is he, he isn't a Hellboy is he?

He is a real nice Asil.

Chris

 

[Yellow House Farm]

As much as the letterato in me loves the use of the modern/post-modern, I don't think it will stick. For better or for worse, I think that the vast majority of poultrypeople think NOW when they hear modern. Even if the idea is understood, the vocab may not be adopted, at which point the opportunity to broaden the general understanding has been missed. It's just an opinion, but I think they should be clearly indicative of their most basic intention.

 

[Pyncheon guy]

(deleted)bad suggestion...

 

[buffalogal]

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Not too long, any of those Victorian sensibilities that made it to the first decade of the 20th century were swept away by the middle of WWI. Manners, morals, medicine, architecture, fashion, politics, economics, even the industrialization of farming were all forever changed by The Great War. By the time the roaring 20's hit, the Victorians were considered every bit as quaint and "dated" as powdered wigs.

But don't mind me, I'm just disappointed we can't use "Post Modern" and illustrate it with an accompanying Picasso sketch.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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thanks for posting the pics... i know next to nothing about them... but they are one of the breeds on my list to get... that is the 1st time i have seen a good pic of a hen... pls breed them and hatch as many chicks as you can... if you cant hatch them all send some my way

there is so little info out about them its a real shame...

 

[hallerlake]

Use Industrial instead of Victorian, and modern or contemporary instead of post modern.



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[exop]

The Victorian to Edwardian periods - the early Poultry Fancy, and 1890s-1920 high-efficiency-breed development period - shared an interesting aspect: a lot of the new breeds, and breed refining that went on, used genes from newly-available Asian fowl. The Modern era could also be called the Melting Pot era.

I do think Modern has a ring to it, especially as people from this time period were acutely conscious of their own modernity, and of "modern scientific methods" in poultry breeding and rearing, but I understand Yellow House Farm's objection.

Post Modern probably should be knocked out of the running (didn't mean it as a serious suggestion myself)... The term in art, literature and architecture is associated with merciless tongue-in-cheek quoting and mixing-up of disparate time periods and aesthetics, eg. an office building shaped like a huge thatched cottage made of metal and glass. A post-modern chicken sounds to me like a whimsical creature made up of exaggerated elements drawn from other, traditional and world breeds... and now my head hurts, as I think I may have just described the Faverolles.

Best - exop

 

[exop]

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I do like this schema.

 

[saladin]

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Can't quote everyone so I chose this one.

Seems I'm being led back toward my original posting (with modifications). I too think the words should be clear and concise. That said, I also believe this is our teachable moment! There are so many new folks coming to poultry (a good thing) that we have to opportunity to educate them approriately without misleading them. People need to understand that breeds developed from around the turn of the 20th century are very new indeed. Further, that calling something 'modern' or 'contemporary' or even 'new' is not a statement about the worth of a breed. It is a statement of fact.

 

[saladin]

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His dame was a Lenny Wahl white Asil and his sire was a black Asil out of the line I call my Abyssinians.