Question ?

[Chicken_man 1,651]

You have a pair of birds! And you want to establish a line!

What is the best way?

I'm looking for a simple explanation please.

Thanks.

[gamerooster 1,179]

Make sure one of the birds has, or produces the traits that you want, and keep breeding back to it till all offspring breed true and produce the desired traits

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Thanks for that. Someone else gave me a good explanation too.

Atb

[gamerooster 1,179]

i.will go more into detail tomorrow after work for you mate

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Thanks

[vfr400boy 3,455]

Good question I have often wonderd , and how close can you bread ?

[mule123 112]

Good question I have often wonderd , and how close can you bread ?

mother x son........ father x daughter never brother/ sister ..... they will end up like them down south

[gnasher16 30,273]

Surely continually inbreeding is not going to hold up with performance bred birds though is it ?

[gnasher16 30,273]

My uncle bred pigeons his whole life and only started with 2 and never used an blood from outside, my cousin still has the line I believe

 

Never bred a performance bird in my life i was just thinking in terms of dogs.......i guess its different with birds.....fascinating

[mule123 112]

joking apart u must bring in new blood into the line as no line is perfect and later on faults are just reproduce bigger

 

then u use same way bred uncles aunties then u have your line to inbreed just u bring in new blood as needed

[vfr400boy 3,455]

Thanks for that , iv bread my minocars that I got given , I bought a cock in , so I can put the cock to the 2 hens I keeped back and and one of the cock chicks to the existing hens ? Then what sud I do the yera after ? Thanks

[mule123 112]

Thanks for that , iv bread my minocars that I got given , I bought a cock in , so I can put the cock to the 2 hens I keeped back and and one of the cock chicks to the existing hens ? Then what sud I do the yera after ? Thanks

keep good records and use rings to know wats off wat just use what u have bred , with canary u can run 1 ck with 3 hens

then ur set to use the offspring, pair best to best, and keep good records any gd stockman can look at his book an tell u whos who an wat way bred ,,,hope this helps

[vfr400boy 3,455]

Thanks mule

[Chicken_man 1,651]

Lads,

From what I have learned so far, I believe you have to establish a number of families, in order to eventually outcross when needed!

Who is willing to explain this one then?

It's all interesting stuff.

Atb

[marshman 7,758]

It's a hard question to answer in short on a forum such as this . There's books you can get that explain tried and tested methods by good men .