NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL SELECTION – OR BOTH The breeders that do best are those who follow the ways of Mother Nature When Mother Nature changes the environment of a specific […]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEED FOWL, TRANSITION FOWL, AND FOUNDATION FOWL I would like to take this time to talk about the differences between “Seed Fowl,” “Transitional Fowl” and “Foundation Fowl.” Th […]

BREEDING PRACTICES OF THE PAST Preserving the strange and unusual, and the evolution of our modern fowl. Ancient people had no interest in standards of uniformity, […]

A BRIEF HISTORY ON THE BREEDING OF CHICKENS “The several kinds of dogs are almost certainly descended from more than one species, and so it is with some other domesticated a […]

HOW TO INFUSE NEW BLOOD A process used to introduce characteristics that don’t already exist, in the hopes of improving the family or strain Every strain, r […]

RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY BREEDER It is the responsibility of every breeder to be a good representative and protector of their breed, safeguarding their integrity, […]

The culling of your fowl should be practiced continuously The culling of your fowl should be practiced continuously, from the day they hatch out of the egg, to their eventual death. You may […]

CULLING TECHNIQUES AND OBSTACLES CULLING TECHNIQUES In order to cull properly you must spend a lot of time with your chickens. You will need to watch and observe […]

SELECTION OR CULLING, WHAT ABOUT BOTH? When selecting fowl for breeding, a breeder may use many standards in the selection of his fowl. It may be the selection of multiple […]

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROGENY TESTING Another obstacle in selecting the best brood fowl is that their individual performance record can often serve as a very poor […]

SELECT THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS FIRST One of the inherent difficulties involved when breeding, is that the modern breeder usually considers several different […]

UNCONSCIOUS AND METHODICAL SELECTION Charles Darwin once said that there are two kinds of selection, one he called “unconscious,” the other “methodical.” To the […]

NO TIME TO BE WRONG IN THE SELECTION OF BROOD FOWL THE RELATION OF SELECTION AND CULLING: Although frequently used as synonyms, the terms “selection” and “culling” are strictly […]

The Fundamental Nature of Inheritance In order to understand the complexities of breeding, you will need to know a little about genetics, and how it works. Your successes […]

Traits Can Be Exaggerated or Lost By the use or disuse of their parts, and changes in their environment The domestication of gamefowl and chickens began more than 4 […]

POINTS TO CONSIDER IN THE SELECTION OF BROOD FOWL In the selection of desirable birds, both cock and hen, for the brood pen, the first con­sideration should be whether the resulting […]