Artificial Insemination For Pekins - an explanation of how this procedure is done and why it might be useful.
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Artificial Insemination Video - there are various reasons why you may at some point need to carry out artificial insemination with your poultry. Here is a video showing the technique of doing this.
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Breeding Pen Makeup - in 1938 Mr H Duncan was breeding and exhibiting Pekins with great success. This tells us the methods he followed in the breeding pen to achieve this success.
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Line Breeding - a diagram example of how breeding is carried out to produce different generations of the same family.
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Gregor Mendel - most of what we know about traits and inheritance is down to this icon. His theory is used in many breeding pens, probably most commonly the Frizzle breeding programmes.
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Keep your birds laying - to make sure you actually get enough eggs to incubate you need to make sure your birds do not stop laying. Here is some help to resolve egg laying problems.
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