Journey To The Pit 362
By Jim Collins
Journey To The Pit 362Apr 14, 2024
What a Breeders won't sell?
In this episode we talk about why breeders don't sell their broodstock. The comments tonight was all over the place with many different perspectives on the topic.
Chapman Farms
Jeff Chapman shares his journey of over 40yrs as a competitor and a breeder. He shares he experience from working on 3 different farms with completely different methods. He also shares his breeding and conditioning methods from the legal days.
Top 3 tips for selection
I share my top 3 tips for selecting fowl based on my experience. Apply these concepts to your process and I'm sure you will get some great results.
What not to Do
I just wanted to share some insight on what not to do. If you are new to this sport to avoid some of the headaches.
Jimmy Bratcher
Jimmy is a long time breeder at Black Gold Game Farm with many years of experience creating his own family. Jimmy has created his own asiles crosses and have been very successful with them.
Don Lester Pt2
This is part 2 of the highly successful interviews with Don being a feeder. He shares his many years of experience as a feeder for many different breeders. Don life focus has always been to be the best feeder in the world.
John Marks
John Marks is a breeder that is known for his Mugs that he has had over 25yrs. He shares as always many of his methods that has made him success over the last 20+yrs. He goes into details on how he created, maintained and improved his Mug chickens.
Baby Canillas
Baby is a successful breeder in the Philippines that focuses on creating a antibiotic free program. He takes a totally different approach then many other breeders. If you ever wanted to try to become antibiotic free then this is the interview for you.
Anthony Lumbee Gamefarm
Anthony is a young up and coming breeder with early success. He shares with us the things that has made him successful. He will also share the mistakes that he has made on his journey in hopes it can help someone else.
Clark AK-47 Grubbs pt3
In this interview Clark goes in great details on the difference in competing. There are levels to this sport and he discuss what it takes at different levels.
Clark AK-47 Clark
This is part 2 of a 3 part interview and he goes in-dept about what it takes to compete at top level.
Puerto Rican breeder
Understanding why they do what they do and more.
Luke Jarrard JRoc and BRoc farms
This is part 2 of Luke interview with plenty of updates and a lot more details
Farm Visit Manner
In this episode I share with you from my experience and personal conversations with Breeders. What are the does and don't of doing a farm visit so it can be a great experience for all.
Claude Vaughn
This was another great episode with Claude sharing many of his tips for his success. He is known all over the country for his Grey and his ability to consistently product great results with them.
Cinta Gamefarm
Donnie French
Juan Quintanilla
Don Chema Siller
Manuel Alfaro Gamefarm.
Gen Gen the 2x World Slasher Cup Champion
Tonio Mica Gamefowl Farm
Dr. Juan Alberto part 2
Don Lester
Rick Hurst
Bobby Rodgers Diamond Gamefarm
James Sylvester Gamefarm
Cyndel Robinson BoneYard farm
Tammy Marco
EL Chicano
Shawn Cooper
Dr. Juan Alberto
Josh Hoffman
Gameness Part-2
This was a livestream on the topic of gameness and why do everyone have a different definition of it.
How do you value information
In this episode I talk about how valuing information based on respect maybe a flawed concept.
Breeder vs Novice
We talk about the difference from a breeder vs a novice and the skillset that separates them.
Kyle 5K Gamefarm
Kyle shares his method and systems he use to raise fowl in Hawaii. He shares many tips that we feel can be helpful especially in wet humid areas and different times of the year.
Cost of running Farm on Passion
Refining your selections process to minimize the cost of raising the wrong birds.
What's holding you back?
What is holding you back and what are your standards?
Preparing the Next Generation
Just sharing my thought on how important to share knowledge with the next generation.
Stress Expose's weakness in your program
Stress is something that is not talked about but effects all of us. In some way or another on our farms. So we should take the time to evaluate your program every time you have a situation that could have been caused by stress.
New Project
This is a new project called the One Topic show.
Pointing
Here is my thoughts on Pointing which is the most debated topic in the history of the sport.
What can we learn from a Blacksmith
In this short clip I talk about the things we can learn from a Sword maker. The process is exactly the same from picking raw materials to technique and environment. Tune in and see if it makes sense.
Jerry Lopez
Jerry from Nitrous Gamefarm shares a ton of information that you can apply to your program. He brings a different perspective to his program and I believe you can apply it to your program.
Philip Anderson
Philip comes on to share his many decades of Predator control. He share his knowledge on every aspect of dealing with them from catching them to what type of bait to use.
Los Portugueses Gamefarm
LOs Portugee takes us on his Journey on running his farm in So.Cal. Sharing his methods and systems to breeding, care and raising Gamefowl.
Mario Maldonado
This episode Mario takes us on his journey of what he looks for in stage selection. He goes into great details of his process.
Dakota Buffington
This was another great show but with a different purpose for the community. Dakota is a first year Cocker and he gave us a great insight in how his experience has been so far. It's a lot to learn in regards to what we can do as present day cockers to keep new blood coming in to our sport.
Jay Riddle Hawk Pride Farms
Jay takes us on his Journey and gives us some history and insight into his program.