List Of Gamefowl Breeds Manual 10Th Edition

Sexing All Fowl. Merck Veterinary Manual 10th Edition.

The whole act of preservation of our rare breeds begins and ends with patience.

When dealing with rare breeds patience is not a virtue; it is a requirement Certainly patience can be a learned behavior.

I just wish folks wouldnt try to learn or acquire it with the rare breeds with which Im working.

This year alone I have mailed out somewhere between three and four hundred hatching eggs all of rare breeds.

It is always depressing to here that the folks who were so eager to receive the eggs have dropped the said rare breed in a year or so because they didnt realize how much patience this whole process was going to take.

Many of our rare breeds have fallen into a state of mediocrity or worse.

It takes years and years of work to bring them back from the brink of extinction to a place where they even approach the Standard description.

After all, there is no science on the study of roosters fighting ability.

The organization consists of members and annually elected officers who recognize the importance of.

That is why many are regularly attending the sports to help them earn more.

Ill get calls that ask why the leg color is wrong, or why the weight is not up to Standard, or if there is anyone else raising the breed that is further along.

All I ask for many times is the cost of the postage and about half the time that isnt even sent back to me.

I just figure they needed the money worst than I did and write it off: back to the calls.

I usually begin by asking, You know these are rare breeds dont you.

After I receive an affirmative answer, I then ask what attracted them to the breed.

Nine times out of ten that is when I find out that they wanted to be different, to standout at the local poultry show, and to brag to all their going green suburban friends that they were saving a piece of living history.

No where did I hear anything about patience or hard work or the challenge of breeding for improvement.

I didnt hear any of these things because these folks either werent aware of the need for improvement or it never even crossed their little minds.

So, this article is meant to inform folks before they call for hatching eggs or chicks.

The improvement could be related to health and vigor, type or feather color.

Even the best of the show strains still throw chicks with faults.

In the first years of working with a breed you will see some dramatic improvements that come about by simple selection processes.