The Theory and Practice of Breeding to Type and Its Application to the Breeding of Dogs, Farm Animals, Cage Birds and Other Small Pets

C. J. Davies

• Publisher: Vintage Dog Books
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781846640209
  9781846640216
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447487180
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Technology & Engineering

C. J. Davies's The Theory and Practice of Breeding to Type (1928) applies the breeder's art across dogs, farm animals, cage birds and other small pets.

First published in 1928, it sets out the principles of selection, heredity and breeding to a fixed type, illustrated with practical examples across many kinds of stock.

A thoughtful early guide to the breeder's art, restored in an affordable modern edition for the practical breeder and the student of animal husbandry.

This edition features:

• Explains the principles of breeding livestock to a fixed type.
• Covers dogs, farm animals, cage birds and small pets.
• Illustrated with practical examples of selection and heredity.
• Restored from the original text in a modern edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Index to Chapters
• Chapter I. Breeding to Type.—What is Type?—Luck—The Personal Equation
• Chapter II. False Doctrines.—Mental Impressions—Telegony—Saturation—The Inheritance of Acquired Characters—Relative Parental Influence—Fertility—Twins
• Chapter III. Important Factors.—Pedigree—Descent in Tail Female
• Chapter IV. Modern Heredity.—Mendelism—Purity—Blending Inheritance
• Chapter V. Establishing a Strain.—Variation—Fluctuating Variability
• Chapter VI. Inbreeding.—Among Wild Animals—In Fancy Animals—Natural Selection—Deterioration under Domestication—Artificial Reproduction—Selection
• Chapter VII. Methods of Mating.—Daughter and Sire—Mother and Son—Brother and Sister—Double Mating—Crossbreeding—Reciprocal Crosses—Reversion
• Chapter VIII. Colour.—Pigments—Markings—Coat—Cage Birds
• Chapter IX. Further Problems.—Size—Sex—The Hereditary Value of Brothers and Sisters—Heredity and Disease
• Chapter X. Practical Matters.—Early Maturity—Weaning—Sterility
• Summary
• List of Characters Which Behave Alternately in Heredity
• Breeders’ Table
• Tabls of Breeding Data