THE ENVIRONMENT HAS AN EFFECT ON GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT The environment can be your friend or it can be your enemy. It is your strains ability to adapt to its environment that’s i […]

HOW BIG SHOULD YOUR FARM BE? One of the most common mistakes beginners make is to get­ more birds than they can properly manage. In their excitement, they run […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What’s the Best Time of Year to Purchase Brood fowl? Purchasing good brood fowl is all about timing. As you will see, there are good times and bad times to visit a breeder’s farm to s […]

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 […]

Evolution of the Modern Day Fowl By what process has the small Junglefowl been converted into the breeds that we see today? What brought about the change that enables […]

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 Power of a Previous Mating There are breeders who believe that the parent of one sex has more influence on one particular trait or a combination of traits, […]

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 […]

THEIR FUNCTIONALITY DETERMINES THEIR FORM “It is therefore very desirable, before any man commences to breed, that he should make up his mind to the shape and qualities he […]

Natures Influence on Domestication How we can use the Mechanisms of Evolution to Improve our Selective Breeding Practices Our Special Guest is Rick Coste, Author of […]

Mutations are not the result of Selection Occasionally there may be indi­viduals that show characteristics that differ quite noticeably from those expressed by their parents […]