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speckledhen said:
And charging exhorbitant prices for those MUTTS. That's all they are, mutts. A goldendoodle is a mutt, plain and simple, and frankly, IMO, rather ugly at that, but I don't like curly haired dogs and don't like poodles at all. They're designer dogs! That's what I called my designer chicken when I crossed my Belgian D'Anver rooster over my lavender Cochin bantam hen. They were Coch'Anvers. Actually, they were very cool birds. They usually veered more toward the Cochin body type, usually with feathered legs, but with rose combs. I loved those birds.
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I saw "cowboy pits" sell for $1k
 
Had a wedding here yesterday and the bridal party wanted pictures standing near the lake. While they were taking pictures, two snakes decided to swim across towards them, but wonderfully, the geese surrounded them and herded the two snakes back to the other side of the lake! Everyone thought we had the geese trained! LOL! We don't have water moccasins here.....too high altitude, so no worry about those. But, you know city people, they don't like live snakes, dead snakes or sticks that look like snakes!
 
Flowerbh said:
Had a wedding here yesterday and the bridal party wanted pictures standing near the lake.  While they were taking pictures, two snakes decided to swim across towards them, but wonderfully, the geese surrounded them and herded the two snakes back to the other side of the lake!  Everyone thought we had the geese trained!  LOL!  We don't have water moccasins here.....too high altitude, so no worry about those.   But, you know city people, they don't like live snakes, dead snakes or sticks that look like snakes!
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I live in the country and still have family that say the only good snake is a dead one. I got into an argument with my dad for killing a king snake a week ago. People fear what they don't understand
 
Flowerbh said:
I agree with you.

A 'breed' by definition is when all the chicks will look identical to their parents. So, even if you mix a purebred white Ameraucana with a purebred black Ameraucana, their chicks would be considered Easter Eggers. (This is in accordance with the Ameraucana people) because those chicks will now produce chicks of different colors (like some black and some white). All purebred White Ameraucanas should only produce White Ameraucanas, etc. There are some breeds (BLR Wyandottes, Isbars, etc. who hatch blue, black or splash chicks. And, for some reason that is ok, but, heaven forbid if you do that with Ameraucanas!!! LOL!

But, for the most part, all White Leghorns should hatch white chicks that look just like them, all Silver Laced Wyandottes should hatch chicks that all look them.....etc.

Any other outcomes are considered mixes. Easter Eggers are not a breed, they are mixes.
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Agree! People either don't know what they have or don't care. It's not meant to be offensive---it's just genetics. People are so focused on creating new things @speckledhen that they are abandoning traditional color patterns that ends up (IMHO) being a detriment to APA standard colors. For instance, everyone and their brother is so hell bent on making what they call candy corn or tolbunt or apricot or crele (ignorants say Creole) AND all manner of white crested over various colors of Polish that it's harder and harder simply to find classic colors. They all act like they're on some crazy mission to cultivate "projects" instead of just saying what they're really doing which is just monkeying with color expression.

I love a nice group of colored layers regardless of what you call them...the mistake is that you have to have some sort of breed "prestige" associated with what you do. Just love your birds, IMO.
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livhatcher said:
Agree! People either don't know what they have or don't care. It's not meant to be offensive---it's just genetics. People are so focused on creating new things @speckledhen that they are abandoning traditional color patterns that ends up (IMHO) being a detriment to APA standard colors. For instance, everyone and their brother is so hell bent on making what they call candy corn or tolbunt or apricot or crele (ignorants say Creole) AND all manner of white crested over various colors of Polish that it's harder and harder simply to find classic colors. They all act like they're on some crazy mission to cultivate "projects" instead of just saying what they're really doing which is just monkeying with color expression.

I love a nice group of colored layers regardless of what you call them...the mistake is that you have to have some sort of breed "prestige" associated with what you do. Just love your birds, IMO.
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One breed/variety as an example is the Barred Plymouth Rock. The hatchery ones are atrocious! But, they are so common in feed store shipments that I have trouble selling my old heritage line BRs around here, though mine are larger, precisely barred with proper body type/size and leg color. The hatchery ones sometimes do not even look like the breed they're supposed to be. If they'd work on getting the type and color pattern back, it would be preferable to creating these weird new messes they have now that can't even be called breeds.
 
speckledhen said:
One breed/variety as an example is the Barred Plymouth Rock. The hatchery ones are atrocious! But, they are so common in feed store shipments that I have trouble selling my old heritage line BRs around here, though mine are larger, precisely barred with proper body type/size and leg color. The hatchery ones sometimes do not even look like the breed they're supposed to be. If they'd work on getting the type and color pattern back, it would be preferable to creating these weird new messes they have now that can't even be called breeds.
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you are so right! I just don't think people know proper barring and lacing when they see it---of course, you have to see the difference to know it. The precision in the feathering is what really dazzles me when it's bred correctly. I think the overall best goal would be to have people really appreciate what makes the breeds great. I think a lot of the proliferation of birds that don't even approach standard is out of the instant gratification desires to acquire birds. At first I had an order for hatchery birds, and wanted them fast!!---but, I realized that waiting and doing research to find breeders who really care about passing on birds to standard was more important. I have been having a terrible time finding quality golden laced polish standard fowl...everyone will say that they can sell me a candy corn or tolbunt or some iteration of a bird that once involved a golden lace cross. It's really frustrating!! I understand playing with color, but I would hope people would keep the foundation flock colors true.
 
You need to be more careful with your words about ALABAMA.............BTW; when was the last time either of your tigers beat the TIDE????

All you gotta do is beat them???




All in jest: GO BAMA, ROLL TIDE
 

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