Biodiversity of Poultry

[purelypoultry]

I thank you so much for reading and what you have contributed to my paper.

I do understand that the paper I wrote is actually about Genetic Diversity. I started writing the paper with Biodiversity as the topic and had to narrow down the focus as I already had enough content to write the paper needed for my class. I will consider genetic diversity as a separate topic and separate paper from Biodiversity on poultry farms.
I also wanted to address this as a problem and solution format and only got through the problem phase. I will be adding the solution parts in the future.

Solutions I had resolved to be
i. Gene Banks
ii. Genetic diversity within a strain.
iii. biologically diverse ecosystem on a poultry farm
iv. breeders directory
v. breed clubs
vi. strong national organizations
vii. poultry shows
viii. more people raising these endangered chicken, duck, goose, and turkey breeds.

For my class I was doing MLA, but I can switch to APA for this project.


TADKERSON, Are you a professor that you are working with formal scientific research papers? I will address these suggestions in my next revision. This was the first time I had shown other poultry people this paper and wanted some feedback on it before I invested more work into it.

I do enjoy a lively discussion on Genetic Diversity.

 

[purelypoultry]

Do you have a link to the thead about the 220 breeds of chickens extinct since 1930?

 

[lildinkem]

Here is a link to the Italian chickens that are either extinct or close to it.

http://www.ilpollaiodelre.com/i_polliIt1.htm

 

[purelypoultry]

That is a great link. I find it very interesting to read about other breeds of birds in other countries that we do not have here. The chicken breeds that they chose for this Biodiversity of 52 chicken populations assessed by microsatellite typing of DNA pools

 

[lildinkem]

That link puts in perspective how few breeds are left. And we need them all or someday all you will see are a few breeds to survive cause that is all what the big production company's use.

 

[seedcorn]

I'm lazy so I won't comment line by line, but overall a good homework paper. As far as making it into book, you've got a lot of work ahead of you.

Genetics are not lost. ALL chicken breeds came from the same initial stock so the genetics still exist. What has been lost is a "line" that someone bred to stress certain genes. The genes are still there, it's just someone has to reselect for them. What the poultry industry would like is for individuals to keep these preselected gene pools going so they can skip the decades it takes to breed them back.

Very interesting point that the initial intent of the breed has now been lost to the show breeders (houdans). Bet that will go over well w/breeders--altho your point is correct but breeders always think they are smarter than commercial/hobby people.

You've got a good start but a long way to go on a book.

 

[seedcorn]

Quote:
They keep many gene pools going that may never be used because they never know when they might need to select a trait from another line. But they sell most birds from certain inbred lines selected for whatever trait is desired.

A breeder (PHD who had job of breeding animals) told me long time ago that there is more genetic diversity within a "breed" than there is between breeds. With chickens it's a little different since we have breeds w/top hat feathers, feather legs, etc that are a detriment to anyone using chickens for meat or layers.

 

[purelypoultry]

I know that I have alot of work to do but I this is one fourth of my first start.

 

[purelypoultry]

I just got this as a message.

You do have a good start but to be book quality, even what you've go done so far has to be redone. To be "book" quality, you've got a lot of hard work (a moron's like me critiquing) ahead of you. Good luck.

I fully agree that I totally have to redo what i have done so far to be book quality. This is just a homework type paper that i will expand upon and totally redo. This paper was an assignment for my English class and i only completed 1/4 of the outline and goals i had with the paper.​

 

[purelypoultry]

I will be working on this paper extensively after February 1 when my catalog is out in the mail.