The Classic Guide to Chicken Genetics and Poultry Breeding
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by F. B. Hutt
Norton Creek Press, 94 pages. ISBN 9781938099076.
Genetics in Practice was the final chapter of F. B. Hutt’s monumental Genetics of the Fowl, covering the practical aspects of successful breeding projects as opposed to genetic theory and a detailed discussion of all known chicken genes at the time.
By breaking it out as a slim, 94-page volume, we get straight to the “How to Do It” part and dispense with five hundred pages of genetics. But to cover the gap, we kept the extensive glossary and tables listing the commonly referred to genes.
First published in 1948, Genetics of the Fowl has been an industry reference ever since, and is still used in university classes.
Table of Contents
- Genetics in Practice
- Objectives and Methods
- Mass Selection
- For Unifactorial Characters
- Multifactorial Characters
- Special Value of Mass Selection in Grading
- The Multiplying Million
- Progeny Testing
- The Unreliability of Pedigrees
- The Unreliability of Phenotypes
- Records for Progeny Testing
- The Use of Such Records
- Complications and Limitations
- Double Shifts, Triple Shifts, and Diallel Crosses
- Importance of the Environment
- The Use of Proven Sires
- Selection of Females
- Inbreeding
- Rates and Measures
- Effects of Inbreeding in the Fowl
- Prepotent Sires
- The Utilization of Hybrid Vigor
- Crosses of Inbred Lines of One Breed
- Double Crosses of Four Inbred Lines
- Top-crosses on Outbred Stock
- Crosses of Strains not Inbred
- Crosses Between Two Breeds
- Crosses among Three Breeds
- Interspecies Hybrids
- Intergeneric Hybrids
- With Pheasants
- With the Guinea Hen
- With the Peafowl
- With the Turkey
- Literature Cited
- Symbols for the Genes of the Fowl
- Glossary
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