Re: Choosing a new breed - help please

doofy wrote:


Grit magazine just recently had an article on endangered "heritage"
breeds (don't remember the right word),

<soapbox - and not aimed at you Doofy>
I have yet to work out why magazines think its clever to promote keeping of
endangered hens by folks who will never breed.
All this does is
- creates a demand from people who think they are being helpful, but are,
in fact, doing the opposite.
- give the breeders, who have not a clue about selection and are not
interested in learning, the excuse to collect together some of the remaining
breedstock and randomly without any care churn out as many as possible which
they flog at high values to people who will never own a cockerel so
reduceing the breeding numbers even more.

All of which contaminates what is left of any good breeding, destroys what
might remain of decent genetics and weaken the breeds gene pool even
further.

grrrrr
</soapbox>

and it gave a listing of which
ones like to stay in a coop, which ones liked to roam.

It would be interesting to see what they say.
How they can make any such sweeping statements I know now as it is SO
variable.
Show RIR which have been raised generation after generation to perform well
on the show bench are VERY different characters to mine who are high
producers but will tear through ground in a jiffy.

I think it was
Grit magazine. They did one issue on beef, another issue on chickens.

What is the GRIT magazine --- where is it based?

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Jill Bowis

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