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If the three varieties [DCs, WLRCs, and WCs] have been mixed back and forth, patterns and colors may be mixed to the point where few chicks will meet the APA's description for any one of the varieties. Doesn't affect their quality as a meat bird, but they can't be shown successfully.
That is extremely correct-- but in terms of a good looking meat bird- might be the way to go... which is what I am after *at this point in time*. A bird that looks like a cornish, but irrelevent in color.
Now, you never know what colors you'd be getting, so maybe it might create it's own unique color- if bred around, and linebred back to, might have the chance to breed more 'pure'... Of course when you are dealing with only three colors, you can't make something out of nothing though...
If the three varieties [DCs, WLRCs, and WCs] have been mixed back and forth, patterns and colors may be mixed to the point where few chicks will meet the APA's description for any one of the varieties. Doesn't affect their quality as a meat bird, but they can't be shown successfully.
That is extremely correct-- but in terms of a good looking meat bird- might be the way to go... which is what I am after *at this point in time*. A bird that looks like a cornish, but irrelevent in color.
Now, you never know what colors you'd be getting, so maybe it might create it's own unique color- if bred around, and linebred back to, might have the chance to breed more 'pure'... Of course when you are dealing with only three colors, you can't make something out of nothing though...