The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

In regards to anyone's need to give away anything quilted, just let me know when the urge strikes, and I'll be glad to send you my address, and the cost to send it. Don't let that need to give away something quilted, go to waste!

I actually may take you up on this. I sent a present home with a friend to give to his wife. After a week and a half of radio silence I sent her a message asking if she received it.

I'm not looking for anything other than a thank you (really, I'm not) but I'd rather my projects go to someone that I know will appreciate them.

She's a werebroody.

I needed this today, thank you for the laugh. My beak mark (sign of the beast?) on my wrist is almost healed.

 

[Latestarter]

...The only time I think it doesn't apply is when one is dealing with an extremely rare breed - perhaps under 50 or 100 breeding birds in the country.
I cringe when I hear about someone crossing one of these birds with something else. I think it is incumbent on people who are fortunate enough to have acquired some to breed and hatch as many as possible to increase the gene pool.

Now see, I'm sorry but I have to disagree with this. First, just because it's rare here doesn't mean that it's rare, or endangered, anywhere else. And once a person acquires anything, it is then theirs to do with as they please. I don't purchase or acquire something to be held to it's use by what others deem necessary. They are more then welcome to do with THEIR possessions as they see fit.

Perhaps they are trying to create a new breed with different traits, or perhaps they just want to see what happens. Either way, it's their sole right to breed it as they see fit. Now the person who sold them that bird, or those eggs should not have done so if they didn't want the possibility of this to happen. Then again the bird(s) in question may not be anywhere near SOP and not be fit for gene pool inclusion. For those breeding strictly to improve or expand the best of the breed, then breeding to SOP and within breed only is their choice.

I do agree that sloppy breeders selling crap animals as pure/meeting SOP, should be stopped from selling their products as better than what they are, or selling them as something they surely are not. And for those looking to breed solely to improve/expand the breed should only sell to others of like mind. MHO

 

[Amberjem]

 

[drumstick diva]

Hi Jem- long time no see

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Is now a good time to admit I have a very rare olandsk dwarf hen that I cannot breed true because I ate the roosters?

 

[perchie.girl]

Is now a good time to admit I have a very rare olandsk dwarf hen that I cannot breed true because I ate the roosters?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

True story.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG those roosters couldn't make more than a sandwich. You couldn't spare just one????

 

[superchemicalgirl]

If I recall correctly I hatched 6 or 7 eggs and of those eggs I got one girl.

I know I gave away one rooster to a local family (met them at the local elementary school for the swap) and I might have given another away but I did not like the banty/dwarf rooster look. I like a nice big rooster.

I do recall what a pain it was to process those birds, my hands would not get inside them. They were worse than the showgirl roo I processed. But they did make a nice small roast single serve chicken dinner.

To atone for my sins Elsa did broody hatch more olandsk dwarf eggs from another breeder this year - but I sold to another BYCer as part of her orloff breeding program. So, back to batting 0.

 

[bruceha2000]

Hey I'm officially in south Canada.

Likely farther south in South Canada than I am, it is only 32 km to the border