Duck inbreeding/line breeding

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beccaWA

beccaWA

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Feb 22, 2012
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Hi, all.

I have two Khaki drakes which fathered a clutch of eggs that my Australorp hen actually hatched and raised. I have one Cayuga female and two Khaki females. The babies ended up being one 100% Khaki female, and three Khaki/Cayuga cross males.

I have read some of the inbreeding line breeding posts on here, but I cannot find where it says anything about letting a half-brother and half-sister mate.

I will rehome or butcher two of the new drakes (5 drakes to 4 ducks is way too many) but if it works out, I'd like to keep one of the "baby" drakes.

Incidentally, my avatar is a pic of one of the young Khaki/Cayuga cross drakes.

Any info on such a cross would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
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I don't believe you should have any troubles with the first generation of that pairing.
 
honestly duck interbreeding doesnt matter for the first few generations its is when there is an obvious major drop in hatch rate , the ducks seem "off" and birth defects occur that u need to REALLY stop at like that instant stop breeding your ducks , i recommend only interbreeding about 3 generations any more could be very harmful ( this is for full blood brother / sisters, son/mother, etc you get it )

, but you have diffrent breeds of ducks to breed with offspring that the certain duck isnt related to that you should be fine for a while.
 
beccaWA said:
Hi, all.

I have two Khaki drakes which fathered a clutch of eggs that my Australorp hen actually hatched and raised. I have one Cayuga female and two Khaki females. The babies ended up being one 100% Khaki female, and three Khaki/Cayuga cross males.

I have read some of the inbreeding line breeding posts on here, but I cannot find where it says anything about letting a half-brother and half-sister mate.

I will rehome or butcher two of the new drakes (5 drakes to 4 ducks is way too many) but if it works out, I'd like to keep one of the "baby" drakes.

Incidentally, my avatar is a pic of one of the young Khaki/Cayuga cross drakes.

Any info on such a cross would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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Allowing half-siblings to mate isn't likely to cause issues in the first generation as Kevin said. Having only one parent in common reduces the possibility that both parents (your ducklings) will have the same undesirable recessive gene(s), but it of course doesn't eliminate it. You could have unrelated parents that would have the same undesirable recessive(s). It's just more likely if they have a parent in common.
 

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