Did not take the My birds are better approach. Just that if you are breeding to the APA Standard Of Perfection, breeding to Breed type is what the "breeders" are working toward. The "colored" birds are created from mixes and there for DO need work, because they do not meet the Breed standard. The ONLY standard color approved is white. The problem with those people who breed mixes is that they sell their birds as Purebreds, and those of us who do breed to the current APA standard are them approached by the buyers later, when they discover that they were overcharged and misinformed. This happen to me just 2 weeks ago, when I lent a few birds to be on displayed at the MD poultry Expo. I had a lady come up to ask questions about the Sebbies, she had perchased Sebbies from another BYC person. Those birds did not fully develope looking like the birds she thought she was perchasing, then she said that here Saddlebacked Sebbie never fully developed curly feathering. The BYC'r she purchased was touted on BYC as a Very good breeder, who bred & showed her birds. I informed her, that in the last 6 years I had seen this BYC'r at only one show, showing her Geese. They were DQ'd, and she never showed them again.
I mentioned showing, in that if you are breeding to improve your stock, how do you know how well your birds are, until you test them against others. I have seen people who think they have very good birds, but because they don't know the correct standard for their breed, tend to breed their stock in the wrong direction. That is the point I was making.
As far as your priorities, what does your famies "job" have to do with breeding & showing birds. I know people who are military famiiles that do show birds. So sorry yours don't have the time to do the same. And I do nbot have a smooth breasted Sebbie here, never will, so glad you have them and that they have found a home with someone who wants that type of bird. Thank you for your comments, have a good day.
