I'm interesting in breeding chickens. . . . and sheep and horses. My experience is breeding horses and sheep for 20 years and a long boring college class in genetics. Breeding stock can look one way, but it's true genetics will show thru when the offspring arrive. It makes sense to me that mass production breeding will product a great variety in type and characteristics; it required strict selection generation after generation to fix genes in the "gene pool" . Boy this is sounding like my college professor!
I'm starting with mass prodution hens to learn; and move onto breeders who are careful and care to produce wonderful examples of the breed. Just my twp cents on breeding stock.
