Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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Chickens Naturally said:
Nothing hard about following a line breeding program its knowing when to start. Think of it like cloning. You don't want to clone faults. You want health, vigor and no known faults. The unknown and recessive faults will surface and you cull, eliminating the faults from your line and 'fixing' (locking in) the good.

You want to practice complimentary mating until you have something worthy of cloning.
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Ok, I understand your comments about linebreeding, an attempt to clone a great bird. It is your last statement about complimentary matings that I want to be sure I understand. I know that a complimentary mating means that the birds have the same strengthens, to lock those in, and make sure that the never have the same faults. I am understanding that correctly, Right?

The birds I have are very good, but certainly not perfect enough to clone. I would end up with a flock of good birds, but not great birds. So how does a beginner bring the two things together? Do I start out with the simple line breeding plan, while making complimentary selections for the matings? OR Make "complimentary matings" until I find something worth cloning, and then start line breeding? If it is the last one, then How do you do the complimentary matings until then?
 
Best case scenario, it's not simply that they don't have the same faults, but that the one has a strength to offset the fault of another. The goal is to produce offspring that have the strengths of the parent bird with the obvious fault being corrected. Thus, the goal of complementary breeding is to complete the genetics for the "perfect" bird....eventually. Of course, there will be culls where the fault is not corrected, but this is where breeding in numbers comes it--followed by culling ruthlessly.
 
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Need Help finding a line of Good Silver Laced Wyandotte's

A person is looking for some is there many strains that you know of that we may be able to direct a person to?

Please let me know Thanks Bob
 
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lualshannon said:
My New Hampshires are now 10 wks. old. I am very surprised at the fast rate they have been growing. Lately, they started to develop a sheen over their crisp, clean burnt sienna color. They are pleasure to have and watch them develop. Well, needless to say; I simply love them : )





























Walt Leonard-Fowlman01- birds.
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Love the shineLual ! The Eye of Newt is working !
 
Ok, a question for all you old timers. I have a pen of 9 cockerels all housed together while I am letting them grow out a little more, they were hatched March 31st, so are not quite 5 months old. A couple of the birds hold their tails low. Is that due to pecking order issues, or is that a cullable trait? I haven't seen cockerels do this before, but then I've never kept a pen of so many for so long. They sleep overnight in a hoop house, and range in electric poultry netting during the day.

If this is a cullable trait, I will certainly go for it. But one of them in particular is a lovely bird in every other way but this, and if I should ignore it, I'd like to know.

I am considering putting him up in a separate tractor just to see what would happen, but don't want to take him out of the range pen if I don't have to. TIA for advice on this one.
 
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