Hay boys I am getting it and really enjoying my time this winter honing my breeding skills keep up the good work . Norman Redick

Hey Rob, be careful about mixing many breeds, in order to create one. I’ve seen it many times, where breeders are always adding new blood, thinking that those birds have what theirs is missing, when in truth, most of those traits are improved through selectively breeding from the available offspring. Selecting the ones with the highest intensity for those traits. Most of the time, constantly adding new blood only creates a genetic mess. Understand that a strain will never be created until the flow of outside genes stops, and you then select the desirable traits, while culling the undesired. Once you start to see some uniformity and consistency, Thats when you know you have a strain. I suggest that you work on your foundation line, then use a sublime to do all your test breeding, and any addition of new blood. Some day we should do a coaching call to discuss this. I would hate for you to waste time. All you are doing when adding new blood is a recombination of the genes, and starting over. Trust that the variation you will need will express themselves.

Awesome! Glad you are using sublines to add blood or to do any experiments. I just have one questions, do you see any of the offspring that have a little longer tail?

yep, that’s the biggest reason to do sublimes, to see if they are worth continuing with, and if not, you just eliminate them. As long as you don’t make unknown, unfixable changes to your foundation, you are good. Just expect the foundation to improve slowly and sometimes subtle. As long as the offspring are better than the parents, even a little, you know you are going in the right direction. I can’t wait to see how your birds progress. I was checking out your youtube channel, and I like that you are creating your own strain. awesome!!

Awesome, looking forward to talking with you.

thanks Sam, glad you liked it.

Me too. We’re having so much fun, and these new projects are going to really add to the website and the members learning experience.

What a great show!! Keep up the great work fellas..