nicksiders
11 posts
Feb 07, 2004
8:02 PM
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I am thinking of crossing my Continentals with Norwoods. Anybody have any bad feelings about that?
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Mongrel lofts
Guest
Feb 08, 2004
6:09 AM
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Hi Nick,
nothing wrong with a good hibryd crosssing of two Birmingham roller famillies... Some crosses work, and some add so much to the gene pool, that they are not worht the persuing... The question is, if htey are good, where do I breed them from here,, back to the Norwood stuff or the cont.. usually the thought behind crossing to familliey of rollers, is to add to or improve one or the other. Do you have a reason for your Roller x roller or are you just wanting to experiment?? Just a question,, Mongrel Lofts
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Mother lode lofts
Guest
Feb 08, 2004
7:05 AM
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Nick I have in the past crossed two differant families and have gotten a high pecentage of good ones due to hybred vigor,but I do it for only one reason and thats to put them in the kitbox,thats also why many people have two or more sides to thier family, or some will do it to add something that the other family is missing,it could be frequency,depth,speed ect.,in other words,one Family my be stiff but high Qaulity and the other may be frequent but lacking somewhat as far as qaulity,bottom line is there are differant reasons that one may want to cross,when and I do it,it is stricktly for hybred vigor kit birds and they are never bred back into the main family no matter how good they are.but if I was getting better than what I see out of the two differant families when bred straight I would be tempted to try and work a line out of them but I have yet to see this out of my crosses,the hard part is trying to get the crosses to reproduce as good as they are as you have exploded the gene pool.
Mother lode lofts
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Are You Sure
Guest
Feb 08, 2004
2:18 PM
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Nick,
The two families you are talking about both tend to be very deep. You may have to wear a hard hat to fly the youngsters.
They are only rollers, try it you may get some that you love to fly. If it doesn't work out CULL them and go on.
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nicksiders
15 posts
Feb 08, 2004
10:19 PM
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Mongrel Lofts - My Norwoods roll very deep and the Contintals roll very often. My thinking is having deep rollers that roll often (shorten the depth the Norwoods do, but have them roll more often - lengthen the depth of the Continentals.)
This what we all want. It may back fire with alot of rolldowns etc, but I guess we are all looking for the "perfect" roller aren't we.
I have found that Norwoods are some selective breeding from pure Pensoms. Can anyone confirm that?
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