![]() ![]() ![]() An excellent chicken is worth its weight in gold, no matter what it is called. Grab a good chicken regardless of its name. The best bloodlines may or may not have a name but they possess the qualities that make roosters win. How do we do it? By repeatedly breeding these desired traits year in and year out into our gene pool. Genuine positive traits, not just bloodline names. But, barring lucky nicks, genuine positive traits are bred in over years of intelligent selection and decisions. Likewise popular plumage color like white or bulik, can be bred into a line in a season. Anybody can call any pea comb yellow legged rooster as sweater, yellow legged hatch or kelso. Anybody can drop any famous bloodline name. ![]() Our point here is that it is useless to base selection on bloodline names or plumage color. But the truth is there are are more garbage Peruvians than there are good ones. Now is the Peruvian good? People seemed to be crazy with Peruvians. Everybody then wanted to breed or fight the dom. Lately, some breeders won big derbies with doms. When the Zamboanga whites were very popular decades ago, everybody wanted whites. We do not just breed any lemon over any hatch just because we saw somebody won the World Slasher Cup with some lemon to hatch crosses. We don’t say that the 5k$ sweater is an outstanding bloodline, because there are 5k$ sweaters in the hands of some breeders that are just average or even rejects. We judge and select based on the attributes of the individual chicken or particular family. Hence, we do not base our selection on mere bloodlines names. This is, as well, true, to other bloodlines and strains. Is sweater good? Is roundhead good? Is kelso good? Well, there are sweaters, roundheads and kelsos that are good and there are sweater, roundheads and kelsos that are bum. But names don’t kill opponents, and don’t win fights. Sweater, roundhead, kelso, lemon, butcher, hatch, grey and countless others are names of bloodlines of game fowl. Yes, to us, the name of a bloodline of game fowl means nothing. But, which bloodline, strain or breed is the best? They are names of American game strains, popular names of blood lines. Hatch, Kelso, Sweater, Roundhead Claret, Lemon, Brownreds and Grey. ![]()
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