Let’s be practical breeders.

What is practical breeding? Practical breeding of the game fowl concerns with practicality. It tries to make the complicated simple and the hard easy. Let’s not confuse ourselves with too many technical matters.

A practical breeder knows some genetics, but he does not deal with in-depth genetics. Rather he sets realistic desirable objectives and try to achieve these goals as economically as possible in terms of time, money and effort.

A practical breeder is familiar with the different bloodline but he does not based his selection on bloodline names but on desirable traits. He does not compute breeding goals by ¾ of this and ¼ of that because he knows breeding is genetics, not mathematics.

A practical breeder sets appropriate goals.

Maybe an appropriate goal for any ordinary upstart breeder is to produce bloodlines that could compete in hack fights and derbies in a locality. We don’t have to aspire for world beaters when we don’t intend to compete in international derbies. But our goal doesn’t rule out the possibility that we can produce world beaters.

Many successful breeders started up small and ended up big. On the other hand, I have known of big shots who started breeding with all guns ablaze. Unfortunately, after many years, their guns were still firing blanks! All it takes for one to experience the enjoyment and satisfaction of breeding the game fowl are a realistic goal, corresponding capital, just enough to back it, and determination to succeed. The point is even small chicken raisers have the right to enjoy every aspect of sabong, including breeding. And, maybe profit from it.

The secret of how to enjoy game fowl breeding is in simply keeping our goals within our means, our aspirations within our reach.