Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — Double Mating. [ARTICLE]

Double Mating.

Double mating is a method practiced by breeders who wish to produce exhibition specimens, particularly in the parti-colored varieties, males and fe males of direct cockerel breeding line being required to produce cockerels which come up to exhibition requirements. The pullets obtained from this mating are only of value as cockerel breeders. Another special mating of pullet breeding stock is necessary to produce exhibition pullets, and, as a general rule, the cockerels from such matings are not at all available for exhibition purposes.