Our vision for this website, is to create an environment, where breeders like you can find the answers they need to create the fowl of their dreams.
Breeders are those who maintain breeding stock with a commitment to improving the quality and performance ability of a specific strain, and making sure they are good representatives of their breed and variety. Breeding is the foundational pillar for the preservation of all breeds, and a prerequisite towards a sustainable strain!
Everything starts right here.
It is my intention to impart, onto you the principles and practices of selective breeding, so that you too can improve your skills as a breeder, and improve the quality of your fowl.
Since the publication of my books (The Gamefowl Breeders Manuals – Volume One and Two) I have been asked by many aspiring breeders to put together a website for the purpose of help others to maintain, create and improve their breeds, varieties and strains. I am truly honored to have been considered for this task.
As I have stressed, repeatedly, in my articles and books – it makes no difference how fine your farm you may have, or how much experienced you have attained, or how scientific your approach may be – to be successful, you must have the right fowl, and the knowledge and ability to breed them properly.
If you are like so many – always experimenting on various ideas, making many mistakes along the way, wasting valuable time and money, which could be used more productively, and which we will never get back – know that there is a better way!
Experiences such as these are usually caused by bad luck, misfortunes of nature, and most of all, a lack of knowledge, which makes the process of breeding problematic at best. These problems can also be caused by arrogance and inflexibility to new ideas, which can destroy any chance of improvement.
We all struggle to improve our fowl. However, it is through this website, that I hope to save you many years of frustration, disappointment, and loss of time and money, which many of us, including me, have experienced.
The basic purpose of this website is to help you understand, not only the importance, but the complexities of breeding, and to develop a breeding program that will produce successful results.
Although this website is practical, in its point of view, it contains the basic knowledge of breeding you will need to establish a strong reproductive program, that will produce a successful strain. Although practical, some of the material on this website is somewhat technical. Therefore, it is important that the material be complete and comprehensive as possible, and know that we are there to guide every step of the way. You are not alone!
Much of what will be included will deal with the functions and science of breeding. For instance, I won’t waste time explaining what genes and chromosomes are made of, such as proteins and amino acids, which is extremely technical and unnecessary, but I will discuss how genes and chromosomes function, and how they affect the breeding of our fowl.
If you ask me, this website has come just in time. In recent years, there has been a rebirth in the breeding of American Games. These newer, more inquisitive breeders are very interested in the science and practice of breeding, but they don’t know where to find the answers. They want to learn what it takes to breed and improve specific characteristics and traits, but the available information is vague and impractical.
Well, I’m here to tell you – we as breeders have more control over the outcome of our fowl than we ever thought. We can change our fowl into new forms, and in time, change them into the fowl we want them to be. A very powerful revelation!
Throughout this website (the American Gamefowl Breeders Academy) we will discuss, in great detail, many of the necessities necessary in becoming an accomplished breeder of high quality fowl. Whether you are breeding to improve weak or lost traits, or for the preservation of endangered breeds, or to improve performance – whatever your purpose may be, this website will teach you how to pick and choose the right bird to improve your strains.
As a breeder, I will show you the power you have to improve or manipulate specific traits – develop certain psychological characteristics, such as better form and function. I will also show you how to prepare your brood fowl for breeding. In addition, readers will also learn the principles of breeding – and how to breed like the large-scaled operations.
Illustrated throughout, with easy-to-follow instructions, this website teaches you how to raise and breed high-quality American Games.
These guidelines are derived not only from my own personal experience in breeding, but are based on a combination of basic genetics, accepted breeding practices, and a little common sense. These practices are used to help aspiring breeders, and to provide our members with a sound foundation.
I hope you learn and benefit a great deal from this website.
Thanks for joining us
Kenny Troiano
