Introduction To Animal and Plant Breeding Part 1: Genetics Oversimplified!

Greetings! So, you have had chickens (or other livestock, or big gardens...) for a few years and want to start your own breeding program! Great! This is an important part of building your own farm, and an understanding of basic genetics is an important part of designing any such project. This video is a "chalk talk" containing the background information you need to to understand basic genetic terminology and the first instalment of genetics for small farms! (Note, is the first part of a series, I have not fully decided how many videos will be in said series, but it will be at least 3!)
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Resources providing more information on the specific genetic examples used in this video:
Poultry Genetics for the Non-Professional:
www.sellers.kippenjungle.nl/pa...
LONG, C. R., & GREGORY, K. E. (1978). Inheritance of the horned, scurred, and polled condition in cattle. Journal of Heredity, 69(6), 395-400.
web.archive.org/web/202003210...
Ibsen, H. L. (1944). Horn and scur inheritance in certain breeds of sheep. The American Naturalist, 78(779), 506-516.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...
0:00 Genetics!
2:30 What's a gene?
11:48 How many genes do we have?
13:50 Dominant, recessive, hybrid, purebred...and predictions
23:38 More than one gene affecting a trait!
27:45 Incomplete dominant genes
30:02 Complicated loci (extended black)
33:32 Polygenetic traits & heritability

[@pseudopetrus]

Great information!

[@critthepoet9160]

Where have you been all my life ... Your awesome 😎

[@oldwaysrisingfarm]

thanks for the kind comment!

[@MaDukesThePoet]

❤

[@eydelolmos489]

Love the info you are one of the best I've lessened to and I appreciate you taking the time to explain it properly

[@oldwaysrisingfarm]

Thanks so much for the kind comment, I am glad it was a help!

[@RobG7aChattTN]

Very nicely done. I had accidentally started to listen to the 4th in the series but wasn’t sure if I needed to watch this first, basic video but still learned a few things. Fantastic!

[@oldwaysrisingfarm]

Glad it helped!

[@MaDukesThePoet]

Good stuff Adam.

[@oldwaysrisingfarm]

Thank you so much!