Prepotent brood fowl
Prepotency is very important to gamefowl breeding. Prepotency is defined as the ability of an individual to pass on desirable traits to the offspring. Prepotency is the factor that separates a good brood cock from a good battle fowl, and a valuable hen from an ordinary hen.
Prepotency cannot be easily observed. It is more in the genotype. A prepotent individual is homozygous or pure of a number of desirable traits. And, it is better if these traits are dominant in order for these traits to manifest in the next generation.
We can have an idea of prepotency of an individual chicken if we know how this individual has been produced.
There are cocks that look beautiful and fight well but they are heterozygous or not pure of these attributes. They look good and fight well because it so happened that the better genes dominated the bad ones. When made to mate, it is possible that the genes these cocks will pass on to some of their sons and daughters will be the bad ones that were hidden in the genotype instead of the good ones that were manifested in the phenotype.
Whereas a brood cock that is pure of the desirable traits, has nothing to pass on but the good genes. This will make this individual prepotent of the desirable characteristics, thus, it will be a valuable brood cock.
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