Re: Re: CULT: Cheap Tags that last & HYB questions
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Cheap Tags that last & HYB questions
- From: C* L* C*
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:58:52 -0400
Cat breeders identify their litters by the sire. Kittens are registered and
listed in show catalogs with the sire's name first or above the dam's.
Cheryl Leigh
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From: "araveroisback" <showtime@bbtel.com>
To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: Cheap Tags that last & HYB questions
> > Wondering why the pod parent convention was ever adopted to start
> with
> > (daylily convention is the same) Hmmmmmmm.... maybe the ancients
> beleived pod
> > parent more responsible for outcome. Hummm ..... maybe ancient
> hybridizers
> > were egotist and wanted the recognition........ Hummm.........
> maybe we still
> > are.
>
>
>
> I imagine that the convention of using the pod parent to identify is
> just carry over from other things people breed. In horses for
> example, they identify the foal by its mother. ex. the '99 Departing
> Locks colt, or the '98 Supreme Splendor filly, This is BECAUSE that
> mare will only have one foal per year while the stallion may have
> quite a few and it may be quite a while before the foal is registered
> and gets a name of its own. (that part at least seems to be the same
> in irises) So anyway, I suspect they use the pod parent/mother
> convention, because that is what they were used to, after all people
> have probably been breeding horses longer than they have been
> breeding iris.
>
> Chritian, Ky
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