The Best Way to Start Gamefowl Breeding

The breeding of our fighting cocks is one of the most important parts where we must be be very careful for the gamefowls to grow up properly and develop to their maximum potential during their life. In the following guide you’ll learn from raising a rooster since it’s born, to level up fighting rooster in optimal conditions.

Gamefowl Breeding Guide

The breeding of the fighting cocks is a very pleasant activity that can give you great satisfactions but it’s also long and tedious and requires a full time attention. If you don’t have the time for it, don’t dedicate yourself to the breeding. Although, the good thing is that the breeding can become a successful business since there is a big and lucrative local market related to gamefowl roosters..

Most commonly, many beginners initiate themselves into the gamefowls activities through family and friends. When they were asked about what they enjoy the most about the breeding, they answered that it is the joy of watching their birds win in the fences.

You have to acquire as much information as you can about the famous American breeders, even before you buy just one rooster. You can start with visiting to experimented breeders and observe their raising methods. You can also learn much about the materials easily available and watch videos about the subject. If you are an Internet user, there’s a great number of websites about the fighting cocks that can give you part of the necessary information and you can also turn to your friends and ask them if they are dispose to share their knowledge and experiences about the breeding with you. But be careful, not everybody is going to want to share what they know with you. There is plenty of competition and envy between certain breeders, try to look for people that know about this passion and that are dispose to help others.

Start within your budget and with the correct planning

Plan the reproduction inside of the right times, budget and space. Through the course of the time, you can maintain your numbers down through the selective breeding and the incubation. You must be ready to sacrifice any inferior or defective animal, quality is more important than quantity. Prepare your yard for it to be in optimal conditions and never get more birds than the ones we can take care of.

Start out with the right bases. The saying goes “The end justifies the means”, and this might be true to some level due to the results of the fighting cocks breeding come a little later than others.

The experimented breeders have learned to raise winner gamefowls and they always say that the breeding becomes more and more expensive and useless when it’s started with cheap bases. That are cheap in the whole sense of the world.

The first rule is to make sure that the reproducers are adequate. During the selection of the good breeding action, you must have in mind the following steps:

Get the bloodlines from the breeders that have established their names in the field or the ones that are in a winning streak.

Pick up the lines that bind with each other.

If you can, find out which one is your family’s best bloodline.

Try to look for the best source of the bloodline you need.

When you have found the best source, try to obtain the best it can offer you, even if it is more expensive.

Specialize in just one or two races at much.

The first thing to consider when your goal is to be a high quality breeder is to specialized yourself in one or two types of gamefowl rooster breeds maximum. This can be made through the selection of the bloodlines, consanguinity, and the infusion.

The selection of the lines is the most common way of maintaining a strain. This is when a rooster is raised by his mother, grandmother or even great-grandmother or if a cheek is raised by her father, grandfather or great-grandfather. Raise their aunts, uncles or even their cousins; that will work too.

IN-BREEDING
Inbreeding mates gamefowl within a single bloodline or a single broodhen and fighting stag mating. There are different methods available

1. Mating brother and sister- 25% (intensive inbreeding)
2. Mating half brother and half sister-12.5% (moderate inbreeding)
3. Mating uncle and niece;aunt and nephew-12.5% (moderate inbreeding)
4. Mating grandparents and Grandchild- 12.5% (moderate inbreeding)
5. Mating first cousins-6.3% (mild inbreeding)

Remember the purpose of inbreeding is to fix genes and produce the best traits for your stock.  genes are what make the hereditary traits of the bird appear in its conformation, health and fighting style.

When you inbreed fowls, there will eventually be recessive gene-dominant by-products and these must be ruthlessly culled.  Genetics is an exact science and one only need keep very comprehensive records to single out what traits and what genes come from which fowl from bloodlines being crossed.

Line Breeding

This method relies on line breeding the broodfowls before crossing. Line-breeding is inbreeding mates to one individual broodfowl. And in each generation, the breeder "double ups" the genes of the offspring. By line-breeding we try to produce individual(s) as genetically as close to the original broodfowl sire as mentioned earlier. If you are a backyard breeder, chances are you do not have enough space to accommodate too many broodfowl for line-breeding.

In this case, line-breed only to one broodfowl. Choose your most potent stag and hen as far as fowl traits appear, and breed back to that individual. Then you can cross the line-bred progeny with other broodfowl.

Cross Breeding

Crossbreeding is the mating of different bloodlines to each other. This manner of breeding is made to combine the good qualities of 2 different broodfowl bloodlines. If your gamefowl has good gameness and needs better cutting traits or endurance, this is when you infuse new blood via cross breeding. the main goal of it is to produce agile rooster, this are the ones that are going to fight.

The hybrid vigor is the main reason for the crossing. It is the way of raising an individual that is better, faster, stronger, smarter, and a pride for its parents.

The three methods of cross-breeding gamefowls are:
1. STRAIGHT-CROSS--In this method, two strains are mated. If one likes the power-speed blend of Ruble Hatch and Black Traveler, the two are crossed and the male offspring will take after the hens.

2. THREE WAY-CROSS--A family of Kelso that cuts better in open sparring and

needing more wallop or power hitting, can be matched with an even cross like a Hatch-Claret and breed it over the Kelso hens. The progeny out of this mating will retain the desired traits of the Kelso, cutting ability of the Claret, and the power of the Hatch.

3. FOUR WAY CROSS—Two straight crosses are matched like the mating of a Hatch-Claret to a Kelso-Roundhead cross.
One sure thing to watch out for anyone who does cross-breeding is that cross breeds or hybrids almost eventually pass along their worst genetic traits, so keep strict records so that dominant traits are kept within the crossed bloodlines and cull weak birds.

Out-Breeding

Another breeding method worth mentioning is Out-Breeding. Out-Breeding is the mating of the same strain of fowls that belong to different breeders but kept almost pure. If you have a strain of Kelso and you do not want to inbreed or if you have maxed out the traits from your matings, you can procure a Kelso cock from another breeder and breed him over your Kelso hens. Progeny from these matings will still be pure Kelsos.

How to get winner roosters

In order to learn how to get a winner fighting roosters and from a good lineage, unfortunately there is no better way than the “try and failure”, even though it can be easier or more difficult depending on the person you call to orientate you in the subject. Here I give some little advices about how to obtain good fighting cocks:

Select adequate broodcocks and broodhens, (from a good lineage), based on your requirements and never pick a rooster for any “good feeling” you may have. You have to be subjective, analyze properly what you want and what you have and if something doesn’t quite convinces you; change the reproducers.

The FEEDS is the principal base for your broodstocks to be strong and healthy and they can have an equal or better offspring than them. Don’t be cheap with the food, just buy the one from the highest quality.

Carry out a vaccination program in the whole strain, as much as for the reproducers as for the offspring. Try to maintain your animals healthy. If a stallion or hen gets sick, get it out of the breeding lots and don’t use it that season, because it will most probably give you sick or mediocre animals.

The vitamins are the fundamental basis to help them develop their maximum potential. Remember, only vitamins from the highest quality.

If any brood gets sick and doesn’t grows up well, discard it as a fighting cock and don’t use it for any fight because that animal will never get to its maximum potential.

GOODLUCK MGA KASABONG!!!!