Selective breeding

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Many farmers resisted adopting mechanized tools until later decades when price pressures increased.

A contemporary of Tull was Robert Bakewell, a tenant farmer in Derbyshire, who experimented with selective breeding of cattle and sheep.

In 1750 he developed the Dorset Horn lamb and improved dairy cows by carefully choosing mates that displayed desirable traits.

Bakewell’s methods increased meat production by over thirty percent in his own holdings.

He documented the outcomes meticulously, publishing papers for agricultural societies that attracted both farmers and investors.

Selective breeding was not purely a biological curiosity.

It was an early form of market-driven genetics that created more efficient livestock.

Bakewell’s work foreshadowed later scientific advances in animal husbandry across the British Empire.

Dog breeding kind of takes the natural out of selection.

In fact, it's what we call artificial selection.

But it's still a kind of selection.

So you've probably wondered what it would be like if a corgi and a greyhound had puppies together, because they can have puppies together, even though that's really weird.

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Just want everybody to know that there's more to breeding than just putting two birds together, and there's more to breeding than just breeding best of the best.

And these three laws have a lot to do with the way my Founders program was put together, have a lot to do with the elements of the Breeders Academy and what's in there.

And working all together as one is a really sufficient and really cool way of actually breeding your birds.

Taking the elements of these three laws, putting them into a breeding program, using the methods in a particular way for a particular length of time to achieve a certain result is really cool.

Let me simplify that for you.

You learned about these three laws of breeding, and then you took those three laws and all the things that you learned about it, and you made a program inside the Breeders Academy called the Founders program.

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Well, okay, well, my point is you can learn a math problem up one side and down the other and still get the same result But it's all in how you understand it.

Yeah, pretty close.

Started out with just some brown deer genetics and it's came a long way since then with selective breeding and just doing artificial insemination, flushing embryos.

On the EHD side of it, we bred a lot of Texas genetics for EHD resistance.

It's probably why we see way more of it heading north, like from a mapping perspective.