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Fred I don't mean any disrespect...
But let me defend what I do and what I am doing for a living.
But please spend some time learning about the history of how 4 way crosses were achieved, before you start bashing the industry. Of course you won't find this online. We really "don't care" for the APA version of them, but we have them, and we care more than most people do.
IR type Delaware, Vantress R Cornish, Colombian, Blue, and black New hampshires, are just some of the industrial heritage birds I can name off hand raised by one poultry farm in the sates for there meat breeding program. So please learn a bit more before you say misleading things, while these may not be APA heritage, they are technically a heritage breed by most other standards, and they breed true.
As I speak now I am scouring North America for the best production bred heritage birds I can find, so yes we do care about heritage breeds, they were crucial but we have let them go now to many strains have been mixed in with or bred into show strains and that is not always a good thing from a genetics stand point.
Unless you have bred a production bird you can not fully understand the role that heritage birds play, but today only certain flocks make the cut into a breeding program....
Not bashing the commercial industry at all. The birds are amazing. I kept them, on the egg side of things, for years and years and fully appreciate their capabilities and the work done to create them.