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    STOCK BIRDS: beyond ‘best to best’

    Oct 13, 2021 2 minutes

    THINK I am haunted by a quote from W.A. Blakston. It’s the one where he derides breeders with this: “You go into a breeding room and find... cage after cage [which] exhibits entire want of quality of pairing which must have been done without any settled purpose except to hatch a lot of rubbish to consume seed. You... ask what they were put up for?

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