Re: Ping Nüle
- From: fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (nuele mersch)
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:59:40 +0200
w.g.s.hamm <fenlandfowlREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Molly,
> I am trying to find a breeder over there of zwerg araucana (schwanzlose).
> I understand that over there, araucanas do not normally have tails in any
> case.
that's right, our standard wants them rumpless.
> I am desperate to get hold of some hatching eggs from the breed and am
> having no luck over here at all unless I join the club, pay a tenner and get
> the breeders list which frankly I opbject to doing
you're not *really* desperate then ;-)
> because I don't yet know
> whether I will be that interested in the breed like I am with say, my
> Belgians.
> I have been told by someone over here that rumpless araucana breeders over
> here are mostly club members and they don't like selling to anyone not in
> the club or even selling at all in case someone shows and takes a better
> prize. All sounds a bit daft to me. Surely if someone likes a breed, they
> want to tell others what is great about the breed and sell them and share
> the pleasure?
It's very different between clubs. A friend who breeds Chabos (what
you'd call Japanese bantams) told me that the Chabo breeders are like
that. There seems to be a lot of rivalry among them. I don't know about
Araucanas because I don't know anyone who breeds them. Joining the club
is usually the best idea to get a list of breeders, or go to a big show,
where entrance fee and catalogue alone are more than a tenner!
However, I don't know about import regulations for England, I could
imagine it isn't so easy after the outbreak of AI a couple of years ago,
especially from Holland and Belgium where it raged most. From what
others have reported here importing eggs/birds from the continent
sounded almost impossible.
In my club, we had an inquiry from someone in USA last year. He wanted
hatching eggs of those endangered German breeds our club looks after. We
tried to help him and were willing to give away all the eggs for free,
but nevertheless the necessary amount of bureaucracy, time and money was
enormous. Our president wrote all the letters and filled in all the
official forms etc. All the eggs had to be tested for all sorts of
germs and diseases at a University lab, which cost a fortune. Transport
wasn't for free, either. In the end, the transporting company refused to
take it on board of the plane because the recipient had failed to
present the necessary papers from the other side of the pond, and the
club had to pay all the bills for nothing.
I very much doubt you would get away cheaper than just a tenner if you
wanted to import eggs from the continent.
Nuele (D)
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