STARTING OUT ON THE RIGHT FOOT “I hope there will be no lack of young recruits to carry on in perfection this beautiful and useful Old English breed of fowl in t […]

Things to Lookout For when Purchasing Fowl If you are like many who have decided to purchase mature brood fowl, it is a good idea to select them in person. This allows you to […]

What to Start With (Eggs, Chicks or Mature Fowl)? Once you know the kind of fowl you want, and who you are going to buy them from, the next step is to decide whether to purchase brood […]

HOW THE INFUSION OF THE WRONG BLOOD CAN DESTROY A FAMILY The law of contamination has never been so widely considered, and its effects measured, as it is among breeders of poultry. Reason […]

DOES YOUR COCK OR HEN HAVE THE POWER TO IMPRESS THIER INFLUENCE ONTO THEIR OFFSPRING? This is a concept that can be hard to explain. Webster’s dictionary describes it as: “Having exceptional power; authority or inf […]

HOW SOME TRAITS HAVE A DIRECT EFFECT ON OTHER TRAITS There is no doubt that marvelous things can be done with chickens. Selective Breeding is a wonderful mechanism for creating and […]

Scaly Leg Mites & Favus: Two Contagious Threats That Can Devastate Your Strain with Peter Brown In this two-part episode, we take an in-depth look at two often-overlooked but potentially devastating health problems affecting […]

BREED TOWARDS PROGRESSION, NOT REGRESSION, AT ALL TIMES Progression and Regression are two laws of opposing forces that are simple to appreciate but hard to understand. One advances the […]

Reversion or Simple Degeneration? When the offspring resemble a distant ancestor, to a noticeable degree, we refer to it as a “Throwback.” In other words, a t […]

What If Everything We Believed Was Wrong? Challenging the Myths, Traditions, and Assumptions That Are Holding Our Breeders and Breeds Back What if everything we believed […]

Every Method has a Particular Function and Purpose There are several breeding methods available to breeders for creating a strain. Each method serves a specific function and purpose. […]

Finding Those Great Individuals Might Just Take You to the Most Unexpected Places The random combination of genes that exist within our fowl allows the breeder the […]

The War on Common Sense Breeding: Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions In this episode, we confront the growing crisis of misinformation and myth-driven practices in the chicken and gamefowl breeding […]

DOES LIKE ALWAYS BEGET LIKE? “Like Begets Like,” is a common phrase used by many breeders. It simply means that there is a strong similarity be­tween the pare […]

The Ugly Truth About Outcrossing: The Double-Edged Sword of Breeding In this episode, we dive headfirst into one of the most polarizing topics in the world of chicken and gamefowl breeding: outcrossing. […]

Necessary Requirements to Becoming a Successful Breeder What does it really take to become a successful chicken or gamefowl breeder? Becoming a successful breeder involves a combination […]