Bred to Perfection

Ep238 - Breeders’ Insights – Beyond Common Sense in Breeding


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Breeding is more than a tradition—it’s an intricate dance of genetics, health, environment, and experience. In this episode of Bred to Perfection, Kenny and Nancy Troiano delve into the art and science behind breeding to perfection. Whether you're a seasoned breeder or just getting started, this conversation offers valuable insights into the crucial decisions and strategies needed to improve your strains.

Key Takeaways:

  • Breeding Challenges: Discover why selecting brood stock based on health, vigor, and conformation is vital. Kenny highlights the importance of addressing defects and deleterious genes, while keeping health and vigor at the forefront of breeding decisions.
  • Inbreeding: A deep dive into the pros and cons of inbreeding, particularly brother and sister matings. Kenny explains how this method, when used strategically, can help strengthen strains, but warns against using it with weaker birds.
  • Environmental & Nutritional Factors: Learn about common breeding pitfalls, such as over-worming, over-medicating, and poor feeding practices. Kenny and Nancy stress the importance of proper nutrition and environmental management to ensure optimal breeding success.
  • Selecting Breeding Stock: Get tips on how to choose the right birds, prioritizing traits like health, vigor, type, conformation, and color. Kenny explains why accepting faults in these areas can lead to their perpetuation in future generations.
  • Genetics: The episode dives into the complexities of genetic traits, focusing on how strategic matings can fix traits like color and type. Kenny underscores the importance of understanding genetic dominance and recessive traits in successful breeding.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to refine their breeding practices and produce healthier, more robust bloodlines and strains. Whether you’re working with a small backyard flock or pursuing more advanced breeding goals, Kenny and Nancy’s advice will help you take your breeding to the next level.

Final Thoughts: Join the Breeders Academy community to further your breeding knowledge and access a wealth of resources designed to help you thrive. Take your strain to new heights—listen now!

Make sure to follow and watch our future shows. We plan to dive deep into the world of breeding and genetics, nutrition and health management, and provide essential tips, so you too can create high quality strains.  Whether you're breeding domestic chickens, gamefowl, or various types of livestock, this show is for you. 

Join us on Bred to Perfection Live, Friday’s at 6pm PST or 9pm EST on YouTube, as we discuss the benefits of creating your own strain.

See ya there!

Kenny Troiano

Founder of "The Breeders Academy"

We specialize in breeding, and breeding related topics. This includes proper selection practices and the use of proven breeding programs. It is our mission to provide our followers and members a greater understanding of poultry breeding, poultry genetics, poultry health care and disease prevention, and how to improve the production and performance ability of your fowl. 

If you are interested in creating a strain, or improving your established strain, you are in the right place. 

We also want to encourage you to join us at the Breeders Academy, where we will not only help you increase your knowledge of breeding and advance your skills as a breeder, but improve the quality and performance of your fowl.

If you would like to learn more, go to: https://www.breedersacademy.com

In this episode, Kenny Troiano, host of the 'Bred to Perfection' podcast and founder of the Breeders Academy, discusses various aspects of breeding. Kenny emphasizes the importance of health, vigor, and type over purely aesthetic traits when selecting breeding stock. He answers listener questions about inbreeding, brother-sister matings, and using supplements. The episode highlights the challenges of breeding, the importance of selective breeding over hybridizing, and the need to cultivate a sustainable and robust lineage.

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