Freddie
20 posts
Apr 05, 2004
7:03 PM
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Do any of you cross families in your breeding? Or do you stay close within a family? I have two families of rollers some are bred stright and some are crosses. The fact is though if you go back far enough they are all out of Pensoms imports at some time.
Freddie
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Steve S.
Guest
Apr 05, 2004
8:17 PM
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Hi Freddie,
I breed from some of the W/C winning families straight from the Breeders.3 to be exact.
They all inbreed and keep the gene pool close.
They tell me to do the same as they have refined the rollers to react the same to feed and flying together with the same reactions on the breaks because of the same close breeding.
I also breed crosses of these families with mixed results as I have not gotten their feed intake requirements down pat.
These crosses kit good and seem to break together good but I am still on the ground floor of creating a family from these.
I do recomend the pure families as the former creators of these families have put all the work into them and worked out the bad traits and etc. from these birds.
Later
Steve S.
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Siddiqir
29 posts
Apr 06, 2004
10:23 AM
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I have not done cross breeding myself but the idea is if your x family of rollers lacks some thing like for example depth then only thing to achieve depth is to cross with y family of rollers.
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mother Lode Lofts
Guest
Apr 08, 2004
7:19 AM
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There's another reason to inbreed,and thats to use two well bred inbred families to cross together for hybred vigor,your making birds for the kitbox only as they generally won't reproduce thier same.
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Mother Lode
Guest
Apr 08, 2004
7:21 AM
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that should have read "Theres another reason to cross families"
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Anonymous
Guest
Jul 28, 2004
12:09 PM
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Does "in-breeding" or "best to best" referring to same breeding method? If doing in-breeding is it really necessary to pick the best from the air???
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Mother lode lofts
56 posts
Jul 29, 2004
9:22 PM
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No they are not the same but they can be if the best are related,and if they are then that would be the road to take towards a line of birds,just keep in mind that some roads lead to deadends,as far as choosing birds that aren't flown,I would never do it unless they are out of an inbred special bird or birds,then the test of the siblings would be in the stock loft and they would either produce or they wouldn't ,keep in mind that the purpose of inbreeding is to set the gene pool,or stack the odds,it's also a tool to help eliminate faults,good and bad come up through inbreeding so yes you must fly out in order to go anywhere by inbreeding,inbreeding ony works in our favor as long as there's a purpose for doing it and only the air can show us where we are going with it.
Scott
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