I’ve spent years drawing Punnett squares trying to understand exactly what I needed to do to purify traits in my birds….I learned the basics of dominate and recessive genes, eugenic traits, polygenic traits, and still the answer of how to improve my fowl eluded me. I was able to maintain a strain of fowl for years by line breeding but I couldn’t, in practice figure out how to intensify the traits I wanted to. I’ve bred and hatched as many as 500 chicks in one year looking for the answer using line breeding. I now realize that inbreeding is the missing key that I needed. I’m so excited to continue on the journey with my birds!