Tag: breeding

How to Design, Execute & Optimize Animal Breeding: WUR

For me, nowadays, massive open online courses (MOOC) are good source of formal education and professional skills from world class universities and technology companies. I have no revenue for 12+ years now since October 2007. No money to buy books. No money to pay for verified certificate. But I am relieved that I can audit…

Read More

How To Create Your Own Strain of Gamecocks?

Repost Last time, we wrote the article, Breed or Breed, to define “breed”. – Gameness til the End When will I have a nick? I do not know when a huge leap of strain improvement will happen. But if it happened to my breeding, here’s what I will do. 1. I will line breed on…

Read More

Breed or Breed

Repost Boston terrier was developed from 4 ferocious breeds but it is not ferocious. This is a glimpse on how we can select our gamecocks traits. – Gameness til the End Sample Dog Breeds boston terrier (american breed, 1850’s, not ferocious) pit bull terrier bull terrier boxer english bulldog 1. pit bull terrier (dogfighting) –…

Read More

Comb Types in Gamecock Breeding

Repost – Gameness til the End Comb Types in Gamecock breeding (2008) Dana Krempels Ph.D Senior Lecturer in Biology (University of Miami) The wild type, single comb in jungle fowl (aka, chickens) is encoded by a recessive allele, and so its expression is masked if a dominant version of the allele is present. Let me…

Read More

Selecting a Brood Hen

The same as Selecting a Brood Cock article in terms of pedigree performance and vital statistics measurement guide. Basically, the hen’s ancestors, siblings, and test mating offsprings are all great winners. Some hens fight each other or young stags. You may be able to see their gameness, intelligence, power, and speed. The hen’s shank must…

Read More

Gamecock Breeding Record – Complete Markings Sheets

This is the first Gamecock Breeding Record article. Be sure to check the next. I think from reading journals and books and websites that complete markings never been publish yet. So, I hope beginners and master cockfighters might find this document useful. Download to peruse in your breeding system record keeping. Share to others. We…

Read More

Selecting a Brood Cock

Performance Statistics Select first and foremost on the performance of the pedigree and of the individual. The pedigree must have at least a winning percentage of 85% and must be multi time winners for a number of years if not a decade. Get to know the pedigree and its fighting style. The pedigree is dominant…

Read More