I refuse to beat this horse to death. You stated that you are breeding them as big as you can get them according to Doug Aker's advice. I am paraphrasing. Not quoting. And as far as thedragonlady getting hell about having a bird the size of Monty, well, you just did exactly that. Attacked her for mentioning the SOP and why is it we aren't breeding to the SOP.
Maybe that was in the other Orpington thread and not this one but it's exactly the same conversation and exactly the same attack. Why attack anyway? What is going on? Are we more interested in being right than promoting the breed and having good birds? Or what?
I haven't posted on the other Orp thread for months. OBVIOUSLY you must have me confused with someone else. OR you would site the post #.
Everyone here can read. We all know what I said was in response to Vickie saying oversize Orps should be DQ'd. Walt, Don, Jim have never seen a bird get DQ'd for being too big. My post was saying "why she can breed them bigger, but the rest of us have to breed them to what the SOP says" is what I was saying. Asking you to back up the words your putting in my mouth is not an attack.