“I was surgically removed from my mother Ruth by her obstetrician Dr. Paul Fried at eight months. And moved to an isolation ward, placed in an incubator for weeks due to fears I might die as my brother Howard. The resulting trauma to my mother (traces left by scarring on her skin as well as mind), and me influenced my practice for allowing Shinnecock Family Hens to live by their natural instincts rather then animal husbandry practices.”                          

Hope Sandrow, 2007                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Breeders practicing animal husbandry (selective breeding) choose a rooster and a hen to “mate” while isolated in a cage that benefits the breeders own advantage. The Hen’s eggs removed and placed inside incubators to hatch. Rather then allowing the Hens to select their mates based on the survival of the flock as their natural practice since their dinosaur ancestors. The chicks raised by human hand, the breeder, not by their nature to fly, roost in trees and forage with Mother Hens.

June 10, 2007

Polish aka Padua aka Padovana are not normally setters.  I have had a few to set, including one that would set until the chicks hatched, then kill them as soon as they come out of the eggs.  If Cleo does this will your camera still be out there for all to see, including children? 

Those folks are in business to make a profit.  Without the profit angle of it, many folks who like to eat chicken and eggs, would not have any to eat.  They are not in the business of making the hens happy.  Using the computer to make these post use energy derived from fossil fuel also.  What about that?

 

If I, and other exhibitors, had to follow your thoughts on incubation, the hobby would be dead in short time, and pure bred poultry would cease to exist. 

August 12, 2007  Padovana Cockeral Shinnecock w Gold Lace Hen Chloe and  Cleo with pullets Katia, Rut, Sarandipity; cocks Galileo, Agenor, Alain born June 17 2007