advice please can brother & sister be breed ?

[goldenchic]

just found out my roo & 2 hens r brother & sister was hoping 2 mate them 2 add to my small flock, i know in humans it is incest and unthinkable does the same apply to chickens ? i've read father & daughter & mother & son can be breed i cringe at the thought but does the same apply to brother & sister? would it cause any health issues would they be deformed?

 

[the simple life]

Happens all the time, line breeding is the same concept, they breed the daughters back to the fathers.
After a while you need to bring in new blood though.

 

[Mahonri]

No problem, sometimes you'll get some great birds if the parents are good too.

And if they are real good birds, it never hurts to have Father roo X daughter pullet or Son cockerel X hen mamma.

 

[goldenchic]

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