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Like
infusion,
intervention
would not be
tempting to
practical
breeders as it is
likewise timeconsuming .

back breeding to the hatch side will produce chickens that are almost
pure of the hatch family but are black in plumage. Intervention differs
from infusion in purpose. In infusion, we want the new blood to perish
without trace. In intervention we want to keep in the old bloodline the
new trait we introduce. When we put in the bonanza blood in the blakliz
and keep a large dose of the blood, it was upgrading. When we put in the
blue face and slowly bred it out, it was infusion. When we put in the.
Aguirre grey and retained the dirty grey plumage while slowly breeding
out the grey blood, it was intervention that led to another version of the
blakliz—the midnight grey
Like infusion, intervention would not be tempting to practical
breeders as it is likewise time-consuming and will not serve any practical
purpose. At any rate, however, it is fun to give it a try. As stated, we did
it to the blakliz when we introduced the Aguirre grey. Although we slowly bred out the grey blood we kept the grey plumage in the midnight grey
family of the blakliz..
Pure cocks over 2-way hens
for a 3-way cross
There are experienced breeders who believe that fighting ability
of a stag will likely come from the mother. We have time and again heard
such story. One time Philip Neri, a breeder and renown author; Dr. Andrew Bunan, also author of books on breeding and acknowledged leading
authority on gamefowl