INBREEDING By Len and Reggie Buchino

Select your stock. When you want to build your stock, buy the best quality birds the breeder is willing to release without overspending.

Eliminate as many flaws as possible. Keep the shortest bodies with the best backs and

best coronas and consorts of your stock.

 

You will need yellow and white ground to complete your breeding stock.

Do not keep a family related bird just because it is family unless it has all the qualities that make that family strong.

You will need to continue to buy birds until you get your families working for you. We started in Glosters in 1974 and in 1990 we locked out our room and felt we had enough good stock to work with to tightly inbreed.

We have created three families in our room since 1990. When we need something added in a particular family, we get it from our own room. You will evidentially notice that the tighter you breed, the less flaws you will have.

 

We always try to breed light to dark to maintain the feather quality. This Gloster Corona is 4 3/4 inches long from head to tail. Her back is 1 1/2 inches wide. Her corona is round and the  center of it sits directly over the eye. Her beak is short and her tail is pipe stem. As you can see the neck is very full and flows into the back. She is rich in color. Her wings are short  and lay flat. Her Grandfather on her father's side is a grizzle  corona with the same type corona. We did not take her in our team of nine birds to the National  because she still had too many pins in her corona and did not finish off until after Thanksgiving. We did show her once this year at the NIROC show in Chicago where she won Best Corona and Second Best in division over other type birds.

 

 

  This bird is what our goal is in a Gloster. 

 

 

 

We never keep a bird that is wild.

We do not believe in breeding consort to consort. That does not build the head as some believe. You do need a broad head, round at every point with good rise over the center of the skull.

We hear some say that they have a corona line and a consort line. The Gloster is one bird with a corona or a consort head. We learned this in 1985 when we went to England and stayed with a top Gloster breeder.

We asked him many questions to learn how to improve our Glosters. We have been in Glosters since 1974 and there is still so much to learn.

 

We hope this article of what we were able to learn will help other breeders.

 

 

We will have another article on our lighting in the near future. You may not reach your goals immediately but just be patient.

Yours in the fancy,

Len and Reggie Buchino 1113 W. Schaumburg Road

Schaumburg, IL., 60194-4149