29-3-1989
Dear
Bill,
Thank
you very much for your letter received a couple of weeks ago, and especially
for the excellent news that your sight is improving slow steady progress is
probably the best way in the long run, the fable of the tortoise and the
hare!! Your amateur radio contacts must be a great source of contact and help
get you outside of yourself.
On
Modern Game Standards, some of the later accepted standards on blue
variations are not in the 1982 edition, but have been accepted by the Poultry
Club of Great Britain in the form I sent you. Therefore when the next version
takes place they will be incorporated unless further change takes place.
No
alteration to the OEG standard has been made since the 1982 edition, but we
have a curious situation with OEG in that ANY COLOUR is standardised without
specific description and shown under AOC. In fact a local fancier has won the
Championship 3 times in 6 years of the OEG show with colours no one has been
able to describe.
A
curious situation also arises in that in the standard, and in popularity, OEG
large fowl colours are non popular in large fowl. The large OEG colours are
more closely related to the Modern Game Bantam colours, giving credence to the
theory that the original English Game had their legs
sketched to become Exhibition
Game and later Modern Game, with
new colours being developed on the old type to produce OEG bantams.
I
am at present trying to re-construct the laced-tailed lacing of a Sebright
from the F2 of two genotypically
established breeds, the S.S. Hamburg E co+
(Db - Ml - Pg) and the Andalusian E Co (db+
- Ml - Pg). The F2 is homozygous
for E Ml Pg and segregates only at the Co and Db, so the analysis is quite
simple. But if, as appears most likely, the genotype of the Sebright is E Co
(Db - Ml - Pg). then your historical research will show the supposed synthesis
as recorded in Fred Jeffrey is correct. Interesting!!
Best
wishes. Yours,