Re: My chick choices

From: Jill. (news_at_REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:12:49 -0000

Mary Fisher wrote:
> " Jill." <news@REMOVETHISkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4239a27f$0$541$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>> Mary Fisher wrote:
>>
>>> If there were survival advantages to being tail-less there would be
>>> more examples in the wild because the characteristic would have
>>> meant success.
>>
>> The population was pretty remote in the Chilean Araucana plains :~)
>> They are still there in the native populations
>
> So not universal.

Oh no
Not at all
I would suggest that anything that has the gene has Araucana blood in its
history
Its not an aberation in the general population but a fairly specific gene it
seems 

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