![]() ![]() Duke created and developed this breed or strain of this nick or blend. Lemons are a cross of three gamecock strains – Claret, Butcher, and McLean. Just like a Lemon strain of gamecocks by Duke Hulsey. Selective breeding will produced uniform phenotype but uniform “gameness” genotype is more important (as Walter Kelso’s decision to breed all types and colors – although Walter also kept separate lines like the out&out, left out, and brokewing families – these families have a majority on a certain phenotype but still not breeding true). Just like the Kelso strain of gamecocks – it comes all kinds of reds (even white) and all color of legs and all kinds of comb. Phenotype is not that important if you started with mixed leg colors and mixed feathering etc. Why? This is how to make the offsprings look and act the same. ![]() I will mate brothers and sisters (these are the nicks) then brother-sister again on the offsprings then brother-sister on their offsprings’ offspring and it continue forever until I die. They will good for crossing when time comes. So that I can replaced this cock and this hen when they die. Why? I have to duplicate their genes or close to duplicate as genetics is not a simple math on blood percentage. I will line breed on the cock side and hen side until both die. But if it happened to my breeding, here’s what I will do. I do not know when a huge leap of strain improvement will happen. ![]() – Gameness til the End When will I have a nick? Last time, we wrote the article, Breed or Breed, to define “breed”.
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