Mystery hens
In chicken, or in any animal for that matter, there are what we in our study of RB Sugbo Deductive Genetics, call Essential Wild Type traits.
Essential wild types are traits necessary and essential for survival in the wild. Examples are instinct, reflex, agility, speed, strength, good health.
Now, the factors that contribute to the manifestation of these traits are likely in the mitochondria. Why? Because mitochodria is the powerhouse of the cells. The cell is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all living things. Cells are often called the "building blocks of life". Therefore an individual is only as good as his cells.
The relevance of the importance of mitochondria to the value of the hen is that it is believed that most, if not all of mitochondrial inheritance, comes from the hen. So it is vital to use a hen with good mitochondria bcause it can pass on the traits essential for survival to its offspring.
Be sure to use hens that come from a line that possesses these good qualities and chances are they will pass on these traits to the offspring. If you can find such a hen, then maintain its line as your hen line.
How to maintain such a hen line? Just continue breeding from hens that came from lines that possess these qualities because these hens must possess good mitochondria. If you find an exceptional hen that produces offspring with essential wild type qualities such as health, strength, agility, sharp instinct and quick reflexes, then breed from that hen, and from its daugthers, from its daughters’ daughters and its, granddaughters’ daughters, so on and so forth.
Breed hens that vertically came from the original exceptional hen. Do not breed from unknown hens. At RB Sugbo we call them mystery hens. We don’t breed from mystery hens. Don’t breed from mystery hens. Breed from a tested hen line.
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