Re: Choosing a new breed - help please


"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

I'm not sure I follow. Surely the dedicated breeders such as yourself are
producing as many as they responsibly can. How would other people
refraining from having these chickens give you more time, facilities, or
feed to produce more quality birds? And if the word doesn't get out, where
are you thinking that the next generation of breeders would come from?


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