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[sdm111]

Just to be clear leg length has nothing to do with station although it usually is hand in hand with station. station references where the legs meet the body and how the body is carried ( to those who may not know )

 

[sdm111]

See these birds. Hen to rear-right at my grandfathers feet is Wheaton colored. Stag may be Wheaton as well although hen with him which was more typical of line was not.

Stag dinged up from a very recent return from a sporting event and was held in very high regard for some reason.

Picture was developed in May 1912 (5-12) somewhat prior to advent of digital cameras or even polaroid cameras. Note snow on ground which in all likelihood indicates picture taken a month two prior but not a year owing to limited shelf-life of exposed film. Picture taken on family farm in Grandview, Indiana. A few years later something else was added that was acquired as a single crappy looking cock from an Army buddy that lived in Wisconsin that my Great Uncle likened to a Mug. What I have and grew up around represents a composite of those inputs.

1st high regard prolly cause he made it home so he prolly won and they haven't changed all that much. Yeah people added to the pot so to speak but still looks like a game today or a hundred yrs ago

 

[centrarchid]

Station for me is angle over vertebrates in torso relative to the horizontal. The bigger the angle, the higher the station, Some station differences are behavioral when you do not control for bird's alert status.

 

[sdm111]

Yeah well I'm not keen in those technical words we've been through that before.

i can't attest to the alertness of the bird I first pictured but the one here I can and this is the brother of said bird and he is relaxed but crappy phone pic

 

[roosterhavoc]

I am aware that station refers to the position of the legs. Like u said it makes the legs look longer.

 

[centrarchid]

I am aware that station refers to the position of the legs. Like u said it makes the legs look longer.

Something about thighs also different. Extremely high station birds have thighs extended down more forming less of an angle with the leg (tibia and fibia).

 

[sdm111]

asil oriental infusion recorded back in the day of your growing up centra

ref: ultimate fowl

 

[centrarchid]

Infusion in some localities predates me but not everywhere or at the same rates in all localities. The Orientals I was most associated with where reserved for creating grades like some corn strains used for creating production crosses. We used a strain obviously derived from a grade to produce a larger battle cross with our core strain that was otherwise kept pure for smaller size class and continued generation of the cross. I never seen a pure "Asil" until about 20 years ago as we never had need for such and others we did not directly associate with maintained as much for personal interest as anything else.. The referenced site is very far from a vetted source of fact. Getting facts for there is like trying to get facts from a conservative or liberal talk show. It is very difficult to get facts on such breeding patterns without records which few divulge and when they do it is not taken well by parties that are not so invested in the breeding efforts. Here provides good examples of parties not interested in the details. Just the pretty pictures and names.

 

[sdm111]

Well what are we suppose to go by? The originators are long gone and it's not like there's pedigrees on these fowl. Unless like yourself u have detailed records of every breeding dating back 100 yrs I guess you're screwed. And like I said before all anybody that's in the sport cares about is the win. Family trees don't win

 

[roosterhavoc]

Good chickens take good pictures,