The biggest single contributing problem to new buyers buying bad birds is a lack of education about what they are buying. How many people on this thread own a Standard of Perfection ? How many own a copy of the British Standard? How many of you bought birds BEFORE you read either one ? Sometimes you can be lucky in finding a true breeder who will help educate you. Sometimes you run into a fellow novice who hasn't a clue either, and the blind start leading the blind. There are hundreds of people who actually show birds, and have never read their breeds' standards.
I wonder what would happen if ABA and APA sent copies of their standards to just every TSC in the country. If I win the lottery, I would cheerfully fund that.
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