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[roosterhavoc]

One of last years stags?

3 yrs old

 

[SOHC-FTW]

One of my white crosses (Hatch, warhorse and Spanish crosses)... He has the dark eyes of a brown red/black.

Usually my whites are pretty vigorous. I think maybe he is too "pure" and lost some of the hybrid vigor or maybe just a bad egg.

I don't know much spanish but I would have probably stopped at Wh/hatch

 

[roosterhavoc]

added some Cornish?

That one has a bit of a bad attitude. Last winter I had em on the bench in the shed and he wouldn’t let me pick him up. He got me in the knee a couple years ago and it hurt like hell. Anyway I had to turn the light off just in case. Wasn’t too eager to take a shot like that in the face. He’s ok just a little temperamental. Handling him a few days in a row calms him right down.

 

[Texicano]

3 yrs old

Gotcha.



So any body have time to explain line breeding to me?
Have any of y'all done it?

Every time someone post a line bred pullet or stag at auction pages or selling forums they look raggedy as hell.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Raggedy to start with.

 

[Texicano]

Raggedy to start with.

Probably right?

 

[flypen]

Gotcha.



So any body have time to explain line breeding to me?
Have any of y'all done it?

Every time someone post a line bred pullet or stag at auction pages or selling forums they look raggedy as hell.

What do you think? If you have any success at raising one bloodline of gamefowl for 30 plus years without adding any other blood to them, you need to learn a breeding program and document everything, wing bands, leg bands, toe marks, nose marks. You can Google search gamefowl breeding and get charts that you can save to your computer, then get a spiral notebook for each bloodline. Read, read, and read more. You can learn more for someone that lives close enough to go visit and talk to than you can imagine. Documenting everything you do with your hens and roosters will help keep your program going.

 

[Texicano]

What do you think? If you have any success at raising one bloodline of gamefowl for 30 plus years without adding any other blood to them, you need to learn a breeding program and document everything, wing bands, leg bands, toe marks, nose marks. You can Google search gamefowl breeding and get charts that you can save to your computer, then get a spiral notebook for each bloodline. Read, read, and read more. You can learn more for someone that lives close enough to go visit and talk to than you can imagine. Documenting everything you do with your hens and roosters will keep your program going.

Thanks flypen, i needed to hear that.
Time to get to work and quit "flapping my gums"

 

[centrarchid]

A part that seems to be left out a lot in the internet postings is how you select which individuals are actually used in the breeding program. If all goes well, then many birds are produced each generation. You have considerations on when culling actually starts, when and if it does stop from offspring of a given bird, and what character(s) are being considered and how those character(s) are considered in the face of what a give bird is likely to be bred to. It is not a single dimension as often reputed to be about gameness.

You also breed a lot more than you keep. Keeping 10% each generation to carry forward as breeders is likely to be too high. Build in capacity to breed and raise to adulthood more birds than will get into the breeding pens. And keep back up birds in case good bird lost to predator, storm or other mishap.

The effort gets expensive when it comes to time, labor (not always = labor), and supplies.

 

[sdm111]

Gotcha.



So any body have time to explain line breeding to me?
Have any of y'all done it?

Every time someone post a line bred pullet or stag at auction pages or selling forums they look raggedy as hell.

in the simplest form

line breeding is son to mother, daughter to father as opposed to brother sister which is inbreeding.

I have and am line breeding and have inbred without issue.