Winning is the bottom line
If winning is the bottom line, then just breed winners over winners over winners. Don’t mind becoming a real breeder.
A friend, a true game fowl breeder, had a very straight forward definition of a breeder. According to him, a breeder is one who understands genetics, has specific goals in his breeding program and approaches the goals systematically, and can produce true-to-type individuals in his flock according to his goals. In short, a true breeder knows what he is doing.
I told him, if that’s the case only a few would qualify to be called a breeder. What will it make the great majority of the members of the so-called GBA’s? Well, he answered: “They are maters.” (By the way, the word mater is not in the dictionaries.)
“They just mate game fowl hoping to get a nick or to duplicate the fowl of the person they got their materials from,” he qualified.
Some call them propagators, I call them replicators, My friend calls them “maters.”
If you prefer to be a “mater,” not a breeder then do not bother about genetics or elaborate breeding techniques, here are a few simple ideas you may adopt.
Avoid the pit falls of inbreeding. Always cross breed. You, for sure, have encountered this advice again and again.
Find an idol and source your materials from him and ask him how to breed them. Do not venture on your own mating decisions. This is called flock sourcing.
The most direct way of all is to simply mate a winning line to another winning line. Do this over several years without inbreeding and it will eventually pay off. Winners are winners. There are reasons why they are winners. No need to find out what are these reasons, nor fathom why they are winners. Leave the finding out to professionals, they have time to waste and the mind set to do so. As for you, just breed winners over winners over winners and chances are you will have some winners.
Again, this will not make you a breeder, based on the harder definition of the word, yet, you may end up a winner. After all it’s all that counts. That is if winning is your only bottom line.
