BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

Take care of yourselves.It's hard for people to understand. Our bodies just don't regulate the heat correctly anymore. I wonder if this is how Cornish Cross feel?

 

[collie1470]

Take care of yourselves.It's hard for people to understand. Our bodies just don't regulate the heat correctly anymore. I wonder if this is how Cornish Cross feel?

Could be. I have a worse time with extreme temperatures than he does. I have to be careful in cold, too, since I've had frostbite, too. But, between the two, I'll take cold any day. Can always add more layers, but you can only legally take so many off XD

 

[HeritageGoose13]

For those of you who have been breeding birds for a long time, what are 5 rules or tips of breeding you would give someone interested in starting out?

 

[JRNash]

If you name it you can't eat it

 

[JRNash]

Welcome Heritage. You are doing the most important thing allready. Asking for advice. I've had zero losses in two orders thanks to the advice and experience of the BYC members

 

[dfr1973]

For those of you who have been breeding birds for a long time, what are 5 rules or tips of breeding you would give someone interested in starting out?

When I have asked this question (always a good one to ask, IMO!) the best piece of advice I received was: Know what your goal is. Even if it's a standard you made up for yourself, you need to know what you are breeding towards and for.

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Thanks for the replies, keep them coming please!

Oh and I have another question. When do the birds you are breeding become your own line? Is there a strict rule for the amount of generations or years or something? Say you started with 3 lines to breed from. How long until you could call your birds their own line/strain?

 

[dfr1973]

If you name it you can't eat it

Err ... we can. Maybe we're just weird, but we can praise a named bird at our dinner table. Not all get names, for certain, else we'd run out of names in just a few years. I picked up a pretty set of table china, used and in "loved" condition, and we have already decided named birds of distinction will be roasted and served on that china serving platter. Yes, even Feyd, my beautiful GLW rooster (from TSC, but the reason I have fallen in love with the breed).

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Err ... we can. Maybe we're just weird, but we can praise a named bird at our dinner table. Not all get names, for certain, else we'd run out of names in just a few years. I picked up a pretty set of table china, used and in "loved" condition, and we have already decided named birds of distinction will be roasted and served on that china serving platter. Yes, even Feyd, my beautiful GLW rooster (from TSC, but the reason I have fallen in love with the breed).

This is funny to me.
Sitting down at the table, the kids say: What's for dinner?
Parents say: We're having ol' Johnny with some stuffing and gravy.

 

[JRNash]

I would think when the results are consistently repeatable. I like to to read up on the APA standards history of the different breeds. If you know the history of a breed,strictly an opinion, then it gives you an idea of what traits might be gained,or lost in trying different breed cross's.