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I have to kind of laugh at the english snobbery..im english too hee hee..but a correct bird is a correct bird be it english or american..all of them origionated from william cooks crook..and brought here by him..so they all have the same origon..ones across the pond at some point had more cochin added british breeders set out to find cochin breeder cast offs (meaning clean legged birds) and had a vision to improve the outline , meatyness and little less sloppy in the tail.. americans bred bigger and for was for climate, america went full blown corporate world after ww2, so we dropped the ball on a lot of chicken breeds..look at australias australorp, then look at ours..big difference, and by ours i dont mean hatchery , i mean the true old line breeders birds..ours managed to stay a bit more toward american standard. australias have evolved into something that barley resembles american standard...the english standard is different than ours and there is not even a pic in my standard of a blk orp to use as guide for what somone expects of me.. .. and yes i showed one of hinkjcs birds at big apa show..something like 1200 birds at the show..lots of meets , best call ducks in the country at this show, three judges...entries from mass, NJ,NY PA, Maryland,Ohio...specials ect...ect..the birds won out of upward of 100 english birds , cornish, dorkings, orps, australorps, we got reserve champion english..thats how correct the bird was..everyone went nuts over the pullet i took, both blk orp breeders and australorp breeders were drooling over her...perfect little miss who needed about 2 more weeks to hit her peak... but she did get RV..so wish i had 10 more just like her..
in my opinion, what a shame it would be to loose american breeders efforts and what beautiful birds they are in person..somedday you would be sorry, the english came over here once to gather up some breeder birds..someday they might just have to do that again..and there wont be any.. i dont beleive in cleansing something..little like predijous and ethnic cleansing..try to use it and improve it if you can. , especially against something as good as some US breeder orps..they look very much like the origional imports by cook...classic blk orp faces on the ones i have..
I have to kind of laugh at the english snobbery..im english too hee hee..but a correct bird is a correct bird be it english or american..all of them origionated from william cooks crook..and brought here by him..so they all have the same origon..ones across the pond at some point had more cochin added british breeders set out to find cochin breeder cast offs (meaning clean legged birds) and had a vision to improve the outline , meatyness and little less sloppy in the tail.. americans bred bigger and for was for climate, america went full blown corporate world after ww2, so we dropped the ball on a lot of chicken breeds..look at australias australorp, then look at ours..big difference, and by ours i dont mean hatchery , i mean the true old line breeders birds..ours managed to stay a bit more toward american standard. australias have evolved into something that barley resembles american standard...the english standard is different than ours and there is not even a pic in my standard of a blk orp to use as guide for what somone expects of me.. .. and yes i showed one of hinkjcs birds at big apa show..something like 1200 birds at the show..lots of meets , best call ducks in the country at this show, three judges...entries from mass, NJ,NY PA, Maryland,Ohio...specials ect...ect..the birds won out of upward of 100 english birds , cornish, dorkings, orps, australorps, we got reserve champion english..thats how correct the bird was..everyone went nuts over the pullet i took, both blk orp breeders and australorp breeders were drooling over her...perfect little miss who needed about 2 more weeks to hit her peak... but she did get RV..so wish i had 10 more just like her..
in my opinion, what a shame it would be to loose american breeders efforts and what beautiful birds they are in person..somedday you would be sorry, the english came over here once to gather up some breeder birds..someday they might just have to do that again..and there wont be any.. i dont beleive in cleansing something..little like predijous and ethnic cleansing..try to use it and improve it if you can. , especially against something as good as some US breeder orps..they look very much like the origional imports by cook...classic blk orp faces on the ones i have..
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