- May 13, 2008
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Forget about Steve.............. sometimes one catches a series of post and on a bad day and it doesn't translate well, No harm no foul. I guess I shouldn't be as passionate about these big ugly cusses as I am ....... but hey everybody has their vises LOL. You should sit for an hour or so in a conversation with group of lifetime Cornishmen and see all the ruckuss that comes from that, it can and does get ugly quick. Shoot Steve........... you won't find those kind of passionate sessions in some hatchery bird pet people or goofy backyard breeder people.
I have found that when I was studying all the Genetics possibilities and trying to a be a genetics geek speak that is was even more frustrating when you get a hatch that is all over the place, and that get's you running in circles questioning everything and in the end you still don't have the answers LOL, it drives a person crazy. I guess I just prefer to maintain my insanity at a lower level and keep things simpler, Concentrating on the older tried and true methods for several reasons that we need to make some sense of.
10-15 yrs ago there were maybe 6 or 7 premiere LF white Cornish breeders in the country, and they had litteraly hundreds of birds each, older lifetime cornish kind of guy's, back then there were ton's of great white cornish all over the place. Then these guys passed on and their flocks got dispersed to the four winds, and to less scroupulous breeders who didn't want to share, once those flocks got thin others began to do the only thing left to do..................... Cross with WLR's & Darks in hopes of making a comeback and also crossing their fingers at the same time. That's the reason we see so much diversity in color where there shouldn't be, a speck hear, a lace there, an off color there, it just happens. And trying to make sense of it is easy but if your on the wrong thought train or buried in genetics you'll go blind and insane trying to figure it out. Hatching & Culling, hatching & culling, hatching & culling it's the only way and it will help you from getting grey hairs and your kids putting you in the nut house LOL.
Anyway................ just sayin.
I have found that when I was studying all the Genetics possibilities and trying to a be a genetics geek speak that is was even more frustrating when you get a hatch that is all over the place, and that get's you running in circles questioning everything and in the end you still don't have the answers LOL, it drives a person crazy. I guess I just prefer to maintain my insanity at a lower level and keep things simpler, Concentrating on the older tried and true methods for several reasons that we need to make some sense of.
10-15 yrs ago there were maybe 6 or 7 premiere LF white Cornish breeders in the country, and they had litteraly hundreds of birds each, older lifetime cornish kind of guy's, back then there were ton's of great white cornish all over the place. Then these guys passed on and their flocks got dispersed to the four winds, and to less scroupulous breeders who didn't want to share, once those flocks got thin others began to do the only thing left to do..................... Cross with WLR's & Darks in hopes of making a comeback and also crossing their fingers at the same time. That's the reason we see so much diversity in color where there shouldn't be, a speck hear, a lace there, an off color there, it just happens. And trying to make sense of it is easy but if your on the wrong thought train or buried in genetics you'll go blind and insane trying to figure it out. Hatching & Culling, hatching & culling, hatching & culling it's the only way and it will help you from getting grey hairs and your kids putting you in the nut house LOL.
Anyway................ just sayin.
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