11/19/2022 0 Comments Gamefowl breeding methodsCocker Tan Bark states, “Good breeding is only a matter of intelligent selection of brood fowl…” (Tan Bark, Game Chickens and How to Breed Them, 1964, p. (Note* It should go without saying that at all times you must select for vigor and type regardless of the breeding system utilized. Further, I believe the modern preservationist can learn much more from the breeding techniques of cockers than he/she can from textbooks on commercial poultry breeding. Instead, it is a heartfelt acknowledgement to men who perfected the art of breeding chickens. Let me add, however, that this article is not an endorsement or defense of cockfighting neither will I belie them in any manner. It is my belief that their methods of breeding should be examined in detail to be utilized by the modern preservationist. During that time they maintained type and vigor to an unparallel degree. Research in breeding has led me to begin gathering and collecting articles and books by cockfighters (cockers) of long ago these men of the past preserved several different breeds of chickens for hundreds possibly even thousands of years.
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