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.

The benefits from cross breeding

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Crossbreeding is the mating of entirely unrelated individuals or individuals without any common ancestor for the past six generations. The object of cross breeding is to combine the good traits from both parents to produce better off spring. The beneficial effects of this genetic variation is called hybrid vigor. The more varied the genes in the individual the greater the chances for hybrid vigor, provided that vast majority of these genes are desirable. The offspring of a crossbreeding program will end up with more pairs of unlike genes than the offspring of a linecrossing system and hybrid vigor is maximized.

The extent to which genetic variability is introduced to the offspring will depend on how different the two breeds are from each other and how consistent the genetics are within each breed.

There are various kinds of crossbreeding. There is the two-way cross or breeding say a pure lemon to a pure sweater. There is also the 3-way cross like a mating between a pure kelso and a lemon/sweater 2way cross. There are 4-way, 5-way, 6-way crosses, so on and so forth. Crossbreeding combinations are practically limitless. But, in the same manner that too intense inbreeding may result in inbreeding depression, too much genetic variations may result in genetic confusion rather than in hybrid vigor.

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