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[flypen]

Make you some charts like these and start it with your original pair for each family. I use toe marks, nose marks, wing bands, and leg bands. Each hen or cock is named by their wing band and family name.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Thanks pen I do try to write everything down haha where and when I got it, phone numbers, crosses, what hatched etc etc as I'm very forgetful.

 

[sdm111]

 

[sdm111]

To be clear you want low

 

[flypen]

Thanks pen I do try to write everything down haha where and when I got it, phone numbers, crosses, what hatched etc etc as I'm very forgetful.

You never know, when you want to repeat a bred pair that you made 2 years ago then you got it. One of my buddies transferred all his records to a laptop 6 years ago, then 3 years later his laptop crashed with no backups ever saved. He went back to old school because it is fail safe. Now his years (20+) of breeding is gone, I can't laugh because I know how he felt with his stomach all knotted up. When I split up with my first wife in the late 80s, I was working on a drilling rig in the gulf she trashed all my records before I could get all my belongings. I sold or gave away almost all of my fowl except some special trios I took to my brother and one best friend. No one will ever breed the same as you, ever! So if you can find a buddy to share your broodfowl with y'all can trade out stags and pullets later down the road, it's almost like making a cross but with the same blood.

 

[flypen]

To be clear you want low

Yes sir

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Gotcha makes sense especially after all that effort it would depress me.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

All my birds look low and at most medium as far as set go no highs.

 

[sdm111]

Exactly I consider it a cross. Say I got cardinal and u got machines that to me would be a cross (cause it'll be fresh) but I guess not technically

 

[flypen]

There's 4 families of Cardinals, Machines, RORN, Jones family, and the Picture cock. It's hard to get any of them pure now days. Lol maybe it's always been that way.