Example of making breeding simple
To improve his stock from one generation to another is the desire of every breeder. Aiming for the current generation to be better than the previous one. This is progressive breeding.
The aim is to breed winners, but it is always easier said than done. Genetics, by itself, is a complicated science. In the case of breeding game fowl it is the more complicated because of the purpose for which the game fowl is bred.
There are traits that have little or nothing to do with the chicken’s fighting performance. Conversely, there are traits that have everything to do with winning and losing. Examples of the latter are cutting accuracy, gameness, fighting ability, and positive physical attributes such as good body conformation, balance and gait.
If you want to breed winners focus on traits that have something to do with winning. The more desirable traits and the less undesirable traits in a gene pool, the greater the chances of producing desirable individuals.
Forget bloodline names, forget in-breeding. Just put into your gene pool as many desirable traits as possible, traits that have something to do with winning and losing, and chances are you will be producing killers.
This is doubly true when talking of polygenic and quantitative traits such as fighting skills, station, body structure and other important characteristics of the gamefowl of such nature. In simple allelic traits, one allele plus one allele make the trait, and the dominant allele prevails.
In polygenic inheritance several genes in different locations produce the characteristic, therefore, not dominance but preponderance, the state of being greater in quantity and significance determines the characteristic.
View the video for an example of a simple and easy way of building up preponderance of good traits in your bloodline.
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