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Raising BackYard Chickens
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<blockquote data-quote="raingarden" data-source="post: 25958198" data-attributes="member: 611025"><p>Many people breeding chickens (and other things) forget to do the first and most important setp. That is, create a vision and a goal of what the end product needs to be. If you do not know where you're going then you cannot get there.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I think there is way too much emphasis placed on color because color is easy to judge. If you want performance then you need to first figure out how to recognize and quantify peformance so the selection process can go forward.</p><p></p><p>My pandemic PTSD is making me more paranoid than ever about cooties I don't trust either the backyard/craigs list breeder or the big hatcheries. If I were to get birds from them they would be confined in quarantine for life and only the offspring would be moved around. The standard practice for new livestock introductions is to breed the founding stock and then kill them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="raingarden, post: 25958198, member: 611025"] Many people breeding chickens (and other things) forget to do the first and most important setp. That is, create a vision and a goal of what the end product needs to be. If you do not know where you're going then you cannot get there. Personally, I think there is way too much emphasis placed on color because color is easy to judge. If you want performance then you need to first figure out how to recognize and quantify peformance so the selection process can go forward. My pandemic PTSD is making me more paranoid than ever about cooties I don't trust either the backyard/craigs list breeder or the big hatcheries. If I were to get birds from them they would be confined in quarantine for life and only the offspring would be moved around. The standard practice for new livestock introductions is to breed the founding stock and then kill them. [/QUOTE]
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