Doug, the situation you observed on the hybridizers table bothers the heck out of me!! Its the non-morph hybrids that look like "cleaner" representatives of one or the other of the parent stock that bothers me the most. I wonder how long it takes for ethics to fly out the door and these hybrids become "parent stock no. 1" or "parent stock no. 2" to move them out the door. And not necessarily by the maker of the hybrid.

When I first started attending shows and such back in the mid-90s, I took everything at face value. I would say "Oh, so thats what a Sinaloan Milk looks like", or "wow, pueblans are nice looking milks". Right or wrong, I could see the differences in the animals CLEARLY!! The sins had the nice wide red bands with narrow black bands around the narrow off-white bands. The puebs had nice almost uniform width bands of red, black and dirty white. Those and hondurans were about the only three milks I could (and still) visually differentiate fairly easily. The rest are a duck shoot to me LOL!!

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