threeonthewing / 19 Feb 2011 16:44

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Hi Nino and Mick....if I am reading you emails correctly you guys have the
opposite views. Nino you feel its my position and method while Mick feels
the birds may be lacking a good homing trait and thus a new strain with good
homing ability would be a possible solution.

Just a few points going forward....I am not breeding for the homing ability
as I have said this would happen automatically from the settled
birds...right?

The homer example is perfect....birds that home are automatically more
likely to be bred for the simple fact those that get lost can't and thus
homing is enhanced....what a revelation on my part :-)

Tipplers fly for endurance and the ones that fly longest are more likely to
be bred, therefore improving the time...another given...right.

I breed for shorter cobbier birds with a wider chest for the simple reason
this type of bird has been witnessed to fly better than a longer lengthier
bird in my environment....so I am directly influencing change here and it
shows in the appearance of the birds.

So my point is this and does not have to be my specific example...given the
fact that birds are bred from settled birds as in the homer example one
would thing automatically the homing should improve given the above example
UNLESS....something else is at play. And that may be as Oskar and Nino
suggested.... it is the variables that get in the way even though they stay
the same they are just too much of an influence and prevent change. And Mick
your second question as to my environment and position affecting the
development of the trait is on par with Nino and Oskar's thinking and more
than likely the reason.....so I'm screwed unless I move and maybe land in an
even worse scenario with hawk problems which I don't really have at the
moment :-) Whew....that is enough of typing for me.
LUka


Submitted by threeonthewing on 2/19/2011 4:29:44 PM