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Tag: Breeding Chickens

Dominent White
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

The Dominant White Gene

The word ‘gene’ is enough to put many people off when it comes to poultry articles. However, let me assure you, I don’t intend to

Prepotent Males
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Success Breeding Chickens: Prepotent Males

I have read with great interest the breeding articles by Stan Simister (Creating a Strain), Derek Alsop’s response and more recently, Robin Ramus’ Federation Interview

Poultry Leg Rings
Keeping Chickens

Identification with Poultry Leg Rings

If you are breeding or showing your birds, you will find it soon becomes necessary to use poultry leg rings. You can identify chickens, ducks, geese

Genetic Faults
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Recessive Genes / Faults

When assessing your rearing stock and noticing an obvious fault, it can be very disheartening. An otherwise-fine specimen is ruined for show and breeding. However, If

Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Breeding in Numbers

Whether you are an experienced poultry breeder or relatively new to the hobby, there are some common factors which have to be learnt in order to

Head of White Sultan Chicken
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Fixing Specific Traits into your Line

Following on from Making your Own Line of birds, Laurence Beeken looks at how to fix specific traits into your line and how to introduce fresh blood when necessary.

Making your own line of chickens
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Making your Own Line of Birds

If you are familiar with showing and breeding then you will almost certainly recognise the reference to a ‘line’ or a ‘strain’ and this becomes immediately

Breeding Chickens
Poultry Breeding & Genetics

Breeding Chickens

If you are considering breeding chickens for sale or expanding your flock’s size, then one of the most rewarding ways to do this is by