REY K. BAJENTING

Rey Bajenting is a professional roosterman, having been a handler, conditioner in his younger days, he is now a breeder.

He is also a writer. He had been a newspaperman, PR practitioner and Public Affairs Consultant. He had worked as Legislative Staff Chief in Congress, Consultant to the Governor of Cebu, and Executive Assistant at the |Office of the Executive Secretary in Malacanang.

Lock the genes?

Lock the genes is one of the many inaccurate terms in gamefowl breeding. Many are misled into believing that they can maintain the entire characteristics of a generation by breeding brother to sister.

It is wrong but it is understandable because in gamefowl breeding many wrongly measure purity by bloodline names.

For example you have a 50-50 cross between a hatch line and a grey line, the users of the term say that you lock the genes by mating a brother and a sister out of this mating. Yes, the resulting proportion of the offspring’s blood is still 50-50 hatch and grey. But the genetic composition or the entire genotype is not locked.

The idea of cloning excellent individuals by the so-called lock the genes misnomer is just not viable. It is a product of lack of understanding of the science on how genes are inherited. Breeding full brother to sister will only maintain the proportion of the bloodline names, not the entire characteristics. View video.

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