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Thanks for the input miss henny. I'm with you on that. Since I have excellent birds to start with I'm going to line breed each pair separately, and then if I end up with offspring out of that mating that when put together could produce an even better result I'll mate them. So I guess I'll be...

I went back and reviewed a book I had read earlier called The Mating and Breeding of Poultry, and in one of the beginning chapters it explains line breeding much better so that I can understand it. Maybe it's just me but the chart didn't seem to match up with the linebreeding example given in...

Sorry - I meant to direct this question to 3riverschick.

I was looking at that book and have a question for the chart on page 15. In the second block (middle) it says on top of the chart, "Cockerel from 1914 mating of 1911 dam to 1917 pullet from 1911 sire". Is that second part of the sentence, "...1917 pullet to 1911 sire" supposed to be, "1914...