thanks a lot for this detailed insight into CdL breeding. You should share a cabin with Denis Conrad sometimes, as I did at5 last year's Sowbug. A discussion between you both might be an amazing thing!
Anyway... heading to the bench to tie some CdL caddis Rene
DonO schrieb:
Rene, You are correct about Spanish CdL coming only loose. I have seen Spanish saddles, but I believe they were only for demonstration. Hackles were sold and demo'd in small bunches, and I got quite a few. They don't raise roosters for harvesting the entire saddle, as Tom does. Traditionally, it was tough to raise good CdL outside of Spain, an it was thought that climate and the wild life they led were necessary for their great colors. This caused breeders to drop the efforts as they couldn't afford to allocate limited resources to generating a sub-standard product. Tom's huge operations allows for 100's of chicks to be raised based on genetic selection, rather that a few selected older roosters being harvested at selected times, as the Spaniards do.
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