Gamefowl Breeder
Modern Breeding of Gamefowl
Narragansett-1982
Foreword
Breeding game cocks for battle is an individual effort. The extent of your success is dependent on your own capacity to recognize and procure the individuals possessing the characteristics you desire, and upon your skill in determining what is and what is not essential.
The breeding system advocated here is based upon the repeated and consistent uniting of these essentials characteristics in your brood fowl whether the individuals possessing them are related genetically or not.
The establishment or "fixing" of such characteristics is accomplished by repeated infusions of those characteristics without concern for genealogical purity or so called breed names. All which follows is merely an expansion and development of those principles.
Throughout the following pages you will find the pronoun "I" used frquently. It is strictly a style of writing. An informal conversation style, as if we were talking together, which makes for easier reading and clearer understanding. Definitely it is not a "know it all" attitude or any desire to pose as an authority. Rather it represents an honest expression of opinion based upon my own experiences.
----------- Narragansett
Chapter 1 The Uncertainties of Breeding
The transmission of hereditary characteristics is beyond the comprehension of mankind.
Our greatest scientists have identified, classified, named, and theorized upon the numerous factors involved, yet have never been able to create a living organism or to predict with certainty what the various elements in combination would produce.
Accordingly, it is no wonder that the most scientific practices result in failure, whereas an obscure and improbable combination occasionally produces phenominal results. An example of the latter comes to mind:
(a) The Berg Blue Muffs which first were produced by a 16-year-old boy from a wild combination of game fowl.
(b) The world's champion harness horse, Peter Manning, which
Narragansett-1982
Foreword
Breeding game cocks for battle is an individual effort. The extent of your success is dependent on your own capacity to recognize and procure the individuals possessing the characteristics you desire, and upon your skill in determining what is and what is not essential.
The breeding system advocated here is based upon the repeated and consistent uniting of these essentials characteristics in your brood fowl whether the individuals possessing them are related genetically or not.
The establishment or "fixing" of such characteristics is accomplished by repeated infusions of those characteristics without concern for genealogical purity or so called breed names. All which follows is merely an expansion and development of those principles.
Throughout the following pages you will find the pronoun "I" used frquently. It is strictly a style of writing. An informal conversation style, as if we were talking together, which makes for easier reading and clearer understanding. Definitely it is not a "know it all" attitude or any desire to pose as an authority. Rather it represents an honest expression of opinion based upon my own experiences.
----------- Narragansett
Chapter 1 The Uncertainties of Breeding
The transmission of hereditary characteristics is beyond the comprehension of mankind.
Our greatest scientists have identified, classified, named, and theorized upon the numerous factors involved, yet have never been able to create a living organism or to predict with certainty what the various elements in combination would produce.
Accordingly, it is no wonder that the most scientific practices result in failure, whereas an obscure and improbable combination occasionally produces phenominal results. An example of the latter comes to mind:
(a) The Berg Blue Muffs which first were produced by a 16-year-old boy from a wild combination of game fowl.
(b) The world's champion harness horse, Peter Manning, which