Best way to start in gamefowl breeding
When someone asks a veteran gamefowl breeder for advice, always the advice is “start right.”
Starting right, however, may have different meanings.
In the Philippines, starting right half a century ago meant importing breeding materials from Americans whose roosters dominated competition in the country.
A quarter of a century later starting right meant buying your materials from local big names who consistently wiped out their American counterparts and took over dominance in the WSC.
But starting right could also mean learning scientific breeding and a little genetics first.
To effectively absorb breeding concepts and ideas you need basic knowledge in genetics in addition to a lot of common sense. Moreover, since the idea is to provide explanations for the many practical observations and conclusions by old timers in gamefowl breeding. The aim is to connect practical observations to scientific principles.
Also as a practical breeder, you need fundamental knowledge in genetics in order to enjoy and get satisfaction from what you are doing. You cannot enjoy doing something you are ignorant of. Basic knowledge will enable you to set genetic objectives that you can use as yardstick to determine whether you had succeeded or failed.
Such objectives could be simple like producing chickens with straight comb. Or complex like combining different fighting traits to produce roosters with power, speed, flight and shuffle--attributes that might be opposites but might yet converge in a bloodline. Without essential knowledge or if you are ignorant of genetics you will not know how to start toward your goal, or you may not even be able to formulate a goal. Basic knowledge and common sense are enough to set you up as a practical breeder of game fowl.
First of all, in gamefowl breeding, you have to learn some important fundamentals of genetics.
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