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Posted by: rtdunham at Tue Feb 26 07:59:19 2013   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rtdunham ]  
   

>>>>did you destroy your amel chainkings terry? OR did you SELL them?

>>Simple answer: I sold them.

I think it's fair to point out (not trying to defend my action but rather to clarify the issues involved in the "hybridizing" discussion) that at worst, the "amel chain kings" might well have been animals that were crosses of nigra and getula, two animals that have a natural intergrade range that stretches (without looking back at maps) maybe 100 miles. One of the many theories about where the original animal came from even including the possibility it came from an intergrade range.

Which is maybe a good point to respond to Aaron Bayer's thoughtful suggestion near the bottom of this thread. Aaron, I think many of us don't just object to the sale of hybrids without proper disclosure: we--I--object to the creation of them, because we (I?) think it unlikely such proper ID will persist with the animals and their subsequent--remember, it's ALL subsequent generations, forever. The "amel chain kings" may be the perfect example: Once the original ID was lost--and if you read the background on them, it appears to have been--now we, all of us, no matter how well meaning, can never sort it out. It's just a good thing the "flaw" in them might have been that they're the result of subspecific cross that occurs in the wild, and that they weren't hybrids.

   

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