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Self-blue Pre-Qualifying Meet at Shawnee, 12-10-16
Jen Mitchell:
--- Quote from: Paul on December 14, 2016, 11:03:50 AM --- If I understand correctly we will only need 25 self blues at two qualifying meets shown by a minimum of 5 members of the APA. This should make it less difficult than the 50 head at one show.
Harry, now all of our self blue are descendants of your original start. They came from Jean Ribbeck and Cindy Aultman who purchased hatching eggs. All of ours from John have been eliminated. You have four years head start on us, but we have shared them with a lot of people through out the US. The three other exhibitors of self blue at the pre-qualifying meet all had purchased self blues from Angela & I in the past. Ernie they were all very similar in type and color but not condition, as most were removed from breeding pens/cages to be taken to the show to meet the quota.
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Paul, I'm sorry if this the wrong thread for this, but I am curious... why did you eliminate that line of self blues? I ask because I received a group of chicks from the same source this year and ended up culling almost the entire lot and wanted to know if you had similar issues? I kept a pair, but I am still not entirely thrilled with them...
DeWayne Edgin:
Paul I have a question for you. Did Cindy Aultman start her own line of Self Blues or did she buy from someone? I'm just curious because my Self Blues came from her. This is a variety that I have that I never researched their background before. I also never added any other lines into them except Blacks from Clif this year. Thanks.
HarryS:
DeWayne Edgin, Cindy Aultman got her start from some cheap eggs I sold her in either 2007 or 2008. I sold them to people to try and promote the color but unfortunately everyone was cashing in on my work so I stopped selling to people.
The same thing happened to me with the lavender Orpingtons and lavender Araucanas by one individual who said he created them.
Paul:
Cindy Aultman also started with eggs from Jean Ribbeck, who got her start from Harry. Jean sent me a photo of a self blue that she started with. I think Jean said she purchased him from Christina Korfus. Cindy Aultman and I split a partial box of self blue chicks from John Blehm. I think Cindy quit the birds later that same year.
HarryS:
Paul, yes Christina Korfus got two cockerels from me in Lavender Ameraucanas. She also got eggs that were Orpingtons but can't remember the color may have been whites/cuckoos.
Cindy had her birds for several years before she quit. I think she sold the original birds to some one.
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