anybody know of where i can get the breed standards for chickens. is there a book i can purchase. i dont know where to find them.
Both ABA and APA have standards. dependng on whether the breed is largefowl, waterfowl or bantam, and whether you have multiple breeds that fall into more than one of these categories, get the standard that best fits your needs.
Quote:The New 2010 Standard of Perfection can be found and purchased here..... http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/APA_ShoppingMall3.htm
The APA SOP has gorgeous color plates of nearly every breed. It's a beautiful book and well worth the money.
Some of the old APA Standard of Perfection books had photographs for some of the breeds. When I say old I mean 1920s. I was very suprised when my 2010 book arrived with very few photos and all of these were of board officers or in the information section. All breed depictions are paintings not photos of real birds. The more I studied the book the more I liked the painted depictions of the birds. Sometimes I think a photo can have too much info. A lot of the time a simple painting informs the mind much better than a photo. The Standard is a good example of this. I have been more than pleased with it.
