Tri-layer breeding
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TRI-LAYER BREEDING METHOD
It pays to breed from parent stock. You don’t have to maintain foundation stocks if you can acquire reliable parent stocks from a breeder who knows what he is doing.
A dilligent breeder of gamefowl keeps foundation lines in order to breed parent stock. They sell the parent stock to buyers who want to breed battle fowl. Yes, In chicken breeding, including game fowl, it helps to breed from parent stock.
Parent stocks are produced to produce F1 battlefowl. And, to produce parent stock you need to breed from the foundation stocks, or in commercial breeding parlance the grandparent stock. There must be four sets of grandparents to produce two sets of unrelated parents that will in turn produce the good F1 battlefowl.
Then a dilligent breeder also takes into accounts the male side and female side of every mating. There are traits that are better acquired from the brood cock. Likewise, there are traits that are better acquired from the hen. Not only that, there are indeed characteristics that can be inherited only from the brood cock and vice versa,
Thus, the need for a male and female line of the mating. At the minimum a serious breeder will have to maintain at least 4 foundation lines. One is the male side of the male line. Then the female side of the male line. Mating the 2 with each other will produce the parent stock for the male side. On the other side, there is the male side of the female line and the female side of the female line. Mating these 2 with will produce the parent stock for the female side. Then mating brood cocks from the male line with hens from the female line will now produced the desired F1 battle fowl. But you don't have to do this. Just acquire parent stock from reliable real breeder and produce your F1s.
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