Breeders’ Insights – Beyond Common Sense in Breeding Mastering Chicken Breeding: Tips on Inbreeding, Hen Selection, and More! Welcome to another episode of ‘Bred to Perfection.’ In […]

Understand Sex-Linkage and Sex-Linked Traits In order to understand Sex-Linkage and Sex-Linked Traits, you have to know a little about genes and how they work. We talked about […]

The Misconceptions of Breeding with Tony Saville Old Wives’ Tales and Superstitions that Hold us Back This episode is about “The Misconceptions about Breeding.” These are popul […]

The 3 Laws of Breeding In this lesson, I will show you how I learned these 3 very important laws. Selective Breeding and Systematic Breeding […]

Chicken study reveals that environmental factors, not just chance, could drive species evolution In the version of evolutionary theory most of us are familiar with, randomly occurring variation in traits, caused by mutations in […]

The Desire to Perfect – Overcoming Obstacles in Pursuit of Perfection Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to be a true breeder? Or whether you already are one? The answer can be subjective, […]

The 15 RULES OF SELECTIVE BREEDING In this episode, we dive deep into the essentials of selective breeding, unveiling 15 rules to help you perfect your breeding program […]

The Erminette Breed with Matt Hemmer Join us for a very special conversation with Matt Hemmer, who is a breeder of the Erminettes. This is a very unique breed, both in a […]

Epigenetics: How the Environment influences Genetic Inheritance The environment can be your friend or your enemy. You decide! There is a lot of confusion in this area of breeding. So much so, […]

10 Reasons to Abandoned a Strain and Start Over – Live Show Version (and, when is it time to create a new strain) Have you ever wondered if you were wasting your time trying to create a strain? […]

THE THREE MOST DANGEROUS BREEDERS There are three types of breeders, practicing particular ideologies, which I believe can have a devastating effect on the breed as a […]

New study reveals how some chickens got striped feathers Birds show an amazing diversity in plumage colour and patterning. But what are the genetic mechanisms creating such patterns? In a […]

What’s the Difference Between Seed Fowl and Foundation Fowl? There is a lot of confusion in this area. I see so many breeders calling their Foundation Fowl “Seed Fowl”, and calling their See […]

Breeding Excellence: From Quantity to Quality Quality vs Quantity: Secrets of Becoming a True Breeder | Bred to Perfection Episode Join Kenny Troiano and guests Nancy and Frank […]