Does anyone know if trait inheritance can be predicted down gender lines? Sorry if it's a stupid question - I am a novice. I was just wondering if males and females pass on different traits or if it's purely random.....
Next year I want to try breeding birds for meat. I have Marans and Indian Game in mind. The marans are nice heavy birds which lay great eggs. The IGs have good breast size but lay tiny eggs. If I was to keep an IG cockrel to cross with a maran, would the resulting progeny have better breast formation than the maran, or lay smaller eggs?