From the book "Start Where You Are With What You Have" glossary:
Closebreeding - The controlled mating of brother and sister, mother to son, father to daughter; distant closebreeding mates first cousins, nieces with uncles, grandparents with grandchildren, and so on.
Closed System - Breeding only within a family so as to breed from a fixed gene pool.
Cold Blood - Fresh stock from a different family of the same breed; introduced to select for a specific quality of the breed.
Compensation mating - Mating a generall superior male with a superior female whose strongest points are the weakest points of the male.
Crossbred - Mating two totally unrelated individuals from totally different breeds; "potluck" breeding.
Cull - The act of eliminating unwanted stock; the undisirable animal which cannot be used for breeding purposes.
Dam - The female in a mating
Eugenics - The application of genetic theory in an attempt to control future generations; usually refers to human selection, rather than animal selection.
Family - A line of relatives sharing common ancestory.
Fixed strain- An inbred family (see closed system)
Flock Selection - breeding choice males within a flock to eliminate defect as they appear (see closed system)
Germ Plasma - The substance in fertile cells (sperm or egg) which transmits the hereditary materials of the organism.
Hackles - The long neck feathers of a bird
Inbreed - See close breed
Intensive Selection Pressure - The severe selection of only one dam or sire out of vast numbers in a flock for the year's mating.
Line Breeding - An aspect of closebreeding; creating two lines by mating only fathers with daughters and mothers with sons.
Main Line - The controlled family bred in a close system
New Blood - See cold blood.
Outcross - Breeding a dam or sire from someone else's strain of a particular breed in order to establish greater vigor.
Sire - the male in a mating
Standard (American) - The detail of the ideal bird as established by the American Poultry Association in a book called the American Standard of Perfection and by the American Bantam Association in a book called the Bantam Standard.
Closebreeding - The controlled mating of brother and sister, mother to son, father to daughter; distant closebreeding mates first cousins, nieces with uncles, grandparents with grandchildren, and so on.
Closed System - Breeding only within a family so as to breed from a fixed gene pool.
Cold Blood - Fresh stock from a different family of the same breed; introduced to select for a specific quality of the breed.
Compensation mating - Mating a generall superior male with a superior female whose strongest points are the weakest points of the male.
Crossbred - Mating two totally unrelated individuals from totally different breeds; "potluck" breeding.
Cull - The act of eliminating unwanted stock; the undisirable animal which cannot be used for breeding purposes.
Dam - The female in a mating
Eugenics - The application of genetic theory in an attempt to control future generations; usually refers to human selection, rather than animal selection.
Family - A line of relatives sharing common ancestory.
Fixed strain- An inbred family (see closed system)
Flock Selection - breeding choice males within a flock to eliminate defect as they appear (see closed system)
Germ Plasma - The substance in fertile cells (sperm or egg) which transmits the hereditary materials of the organism.
Hackles - The long neck feathers of a bird
Inbreed - See close breed
Intensive Selection Pressure - The severe selection of only one dam or sire out of vast numbers in a flock for the year's mating.
Line Breeding - An aspect of closebreeding; creating two lines by mating only fathers with daughters and mothers with sons.
Main Line - The controlled family bred in a close system
New Blood - See cold blood.
Outcross - Breeding a dam or sire from someone else's strain of a particular breed in order to establish greater vigor.
Sire - the male in a mating
Standard (American) - The detail of the ideal bird as established by the American Poultry Association in a book called the American Standard of Perfection and by the American Bantam Association in a book called the Bantam Standard.
