Descrição
Um guia de aprofundamento para entender os padrões de plumagem, excelentemente ilustrado com mais de 240 fotografias a cores. Entre outras coisas, este livro descreve algumas das raças mais populares, aborda a criação em números, incubação, o relacionamento sexual, criar novas cores, emplumação e cor da casca dos ovos, e muito mais.
Distingue o seu genótipo do seu fenótipo? Este é o primeiro livro a cores sobre a genética de aves de capoeira, que está escrito de forma fácil de entender. Grant Brereton é um seguidor do Dr. Clive Carefoot (UK) e Brian Reeder (EUA). Tem uma perícia em descrever cada faceta da criação.
O livro começa com a galinha selvagem e cores das penas de raças modernas que podem ser traçadas em torno do passado. Descreve os métodos de melhoramento genético para a produção de standards, duplo acasalamento, penas duras e macias. Contém capítulos sobre todas as variações de cor.
Outros capítulos explicam como criar uma nova raça, os genes dominantes e recessivos, heterozigóticos, homozigóticos, hemizygous, emplumação, pintas, frisados, cores de casca e muito mais – tudo ilustrado com belas fotografias a cores.
Descrição original:
Grant Brereton has been breeding poultry for most of his life, starting off with some Light Sussex chickens when he was a child, to more recently, winning the Best Trio at the National with his Partridge Wyandotte Bantams.
Getting Partridge Wyandotte colours right is certainly not an easy task. Especially considering that they have to come from double mating (separate male / female breeding pens) and there are very few exhibition males left in existence.
Out of his 26 years of poultry breeding, Grant has spent 10 years test breeding and as a result of his extensive research in this area created this book. He is probably known by most as the editor of the excellent Fancy Fowl magazine in the UK.
This book has been long-awaited by poultry breeders but being a novice when it comes to genetics, to be honest, I was a little worried about reviewing it. I was pleasantly surprised though, it is certainly not just for experienced breeders and I was able to improve my knowledge a great deal from this book without getting too confused!
There are many chapters covering the basics such as breeding in numbers, sourcing stock and improving a strain through selection, or making use of sex-linkage and these are described in an easy to understand manner. However, if you would like to get a little more advanced, you can learn about dominant and recessive genes, plumage colours, genetype or read up on one of the many popular genes such as the chocolate gene that seems to be very popular at the moment among Orpington breeders.
Grant shows ‘step by step’ pictures or what you could call ‘generation to generation’ plumage changes from some of his breeding work. The page below shows how he recreated the Pyle Wyandotte for example.
