Would that then be an admission that essentially you run a male line? We've done the same in Muscovies, we keep the female face small enough to keep the male caruncling just within the respectable.
I don't see anything difficult with double breeding save that, to have a full line, one would treat one breed a bit like two breeds. I think nowadays many folks are so busy trying to have six and seven breeds that they've yet to engage in specialization. Moreover, I think that the general awareness of poultry breeding had plummeted so thoroughly into oblivion toward the end of the 20th century. The new rise in keeping chickens is also eventuating a return of proper breeding in poultry, which will, I'm certain, take a decade or more. All of these conversations we've been having on these threads here are only adding to a knowledge base that, expanding, will encourage breeders to relearn important aspects of breeding such as double mating, etc.. It's all rather positive.
In the meantime, though, and, perhaps, part of the process, we go through phases, such as the rise and eventual fall of all of the poorly developed and redundant fetish varieties offered by Greenfire Farms and the like.
