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[JShubin]

What is your take away from this page?

Inbreeding is hard to do... and not recommended for beginners... Selecting perfect "husky" offspring with no defects or deviation from line traits.

But you have the advantages of consistency.

 

[1cock2hens]

Sorry to hear that. Dont judge a book by its cover I say.

Did you meet in person? and he just said no? go away, you look like a hippy?

we met at a gas station, we were going to talk for a second then I was going to follow him. He pulled up next to me, asked me if I was the guy, when I said yeah he put his truck in reverse and laughed while saying he's not selling his birds to a GD hippy

 

[JShubin]

Yes his strength and physique comes from his father and his fighting style/brains/aggression from his mother

Example:
Hatch over roundhead
A stag with the speed cutting ability and smarts of the roundhead with the powerful hit of the hatch
Thats the hopes anyway

That's how I was taught and how I'll stay cause people's been happy so no need to change

Thats not always true. I tend to notice the opposite. Size and bone structures comes form big hens (big egg, big chicken theory)... and the attitude and brains comes from the father...

Although I thinks its closer to 50/50 odds on what you get. All animal siblings have varying degree of traits from mother and father... Genetics is random chance.

 

[JShubin]

Thats not always true. I tend to find the opposite. Size and bone structures comes form big hens (big egg, big chicken theory)... and the attitude and brains comes from the father...

Although I thinks its closer to 50/50 odds on what you get. All animal siblings have varying degree of traits from mother and father... Genetics is random chance.

Certain dominant traits may be more noticeable on paternal side or maternal side... and their tendency to influence offspring may depend of the breeds you are using/crossing.

Perhaps RH hens pass a dominant gene for gameness, while the hatch has a dominant gene for size... for example... but vice versa for different breeds

 

[JShubin]

Shubin hatch.

 

[centrarchid]

Certain dominant traits may be more noticeable on paternal side or maternal side... and their tendency to influence offspring may depend of the breeds you are using/crossing.

Perhaps RH hens pass a dominant gene for gameness, while the hatch has a dominant gene for size... for example... but vice versa for different breeds

I have something to compare.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Red with black and white head.

You have to work for them thoufh. They like hickory nut trees. There's a branch by me. Need to get in the woods an hour before light and sit there. At daylight look for them stretched out on limbs lounging. If you don't see any might as well go home. I've never seen one after daylight

When I was a teenager my friend killed one that was red with a black head and white snoot and half his tail was white.

Those are pretty neat looking. I’ve seen plenty of fox squirrels and there’s a bunch of black phase gray squirrels in PA but neither here just plain old grays and the little red squirrels that hang out near the beaver ponds I trap/duck hunt. Those are protected though. Tiny little things.
We have quite a few flying squirrels too.

 

[flypen]

We have the black phase Greys and black fox squirrels, I knew a lady that fed a white grey squirrel for several years.

 

[JShubin]

I have something to compare.

What is your experience on the subject of mother/father heredity?

 

[JShubin]

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