Steps in RBS Wild Type Genetics
First we identify what traits are necessary for fighting in the pit such as gameness, cutting ability, endurance, strength, agility, speed/quickness and smartness.
Then we check them against a list of traits necessary for survival in the wild. Examples strength, agility, speed/quickness, instinct and reflexes plus toughness, adapting to environment, and others.
Then those that have checked out, we list as favorable wild type traits in our program. We realize that most of these traits common in both lists are result of good instinct and quick reflexes. These are traits necessary to avoid or overcome predators, or catch prey. We likewise reckon that these same traits also help game fowl win in the pit.
The wild type traits that help win fights in the pit are: strength, agility, speed/quickness, or in short good instinct and quick reflexes. And, because, these are the traits that have allowed the survival of the chicken in the wild, they must have conformed with our theory that they are better genes and are dominant.
Wild type traits such as sharp instinct and quick reflexes that are useful to chicken in the wild are also useful to roosters in the pit. Then, what if, by chance, some of these traits are somehow linked with other wild type genes such as, for instance, genes for color traits or comb type? Moreover, what if some of these positive traits are not only linked with some color genes, but are, indeed, also sex linked? These are great possibilities for application of logical deductive thinking.
Of course, breeding for fighting ability is not as simple as that. Fighting ability is dictated by polygenic traits and quantitative. It is dictated by several sets of genes, in different loci, carried by various chromosomes. However, linkages might also happen among genes involved in polygenic traits.
This linkages theory may also help explain the hen factor or the belief that the stags take their fighting traits from the mother. If this were the case, then we, game fowl breeders have less to worry about wild type traits useful for fighting. If they were sex-inked and dominant, then they would easily manifest in our roosters. Scientific studies already show that although the terms “dominant” and “recessive” do not mean good and bad respectively, most of the alleles that produce abnormal phenotypes or that reduce species viability are recessive.
So, we thought, we have less to worry about the desirable wild type traits as they are mostly dominant. But what about desirable non-wild type traits? This what gives us the harder time, the number of non-wild type traits that are necessary for good fighting. This is where the breeder’s ability comes in.
So, we determined what traits desirable for fighting are not wild type and should be product of selective breeding. These are important attributes of the game fowl that are not necessarily wild type to chickens. These vital traits demanded of our warriors are not necessarily needed for survival in the wild. However, these traits are essential for survival in the pit. It is then the duty of the breeder to provide these traits by artificial selection and other means.
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