My BIL breeds gamecocks. With chickens you can do a lot of generations in a hurry, and he has been working with the same two lines of stock for the last 15 years. He can talk for hours about breeding to increase certain traits and decrease others. He has got all his old stock in cages now and last week he brought in a bunch of new blood. I think there will be a genetic outbreak as the eggheads say.
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It's all pretty cool stuff, and somewhat familiar to me as well. I grew up next door to a family who bred and raised chickens. Hundreds of teepees lined in rows with all of their different prize winning roosters. Big money, blue ribbon stuff. They had a whole other section of the property with rows of cages and huge walk-in enclosures for the breeding, hens, chicks, bitties, etc...I know a number of snake breeders as well,
@Michael Huntherz , and you are right, extremely passionate and knowledgeable people in their hobby, who love to show and tell, to anyone who is interested and will listen.