NATIVE HARDBILLS
THOSE of us who breed to exhibit birds usually pair up with an aim in mind. We seek to see improvement, with the offspring showing better shape, colour, markings, etc. Often, we look to merge the qualities of one of the parents with those of the other. It is common to fail in this, since it is not quite as simple as we would want.
In the combination of genes from one parent and another, it doesn't automatically follow that the best features of each parent will