Can I breed brother and sister together without anything going wrong?

[eggboy]

I am going to buy some black copper marans or ameracaunas hatching eggs (haven't decided which yet they are both so cool it is impossable to decide which.) and I want to breed the chickens that hatch out together but I don't know if I do that if i'd get a chick with two heads or something. Any suggestions?

 

[speckledhen]

No, it's fine, though not the preferred thing to do. If they have the same parents, then any flaw will show itself. By the same token, if they are great breed examples, the babies will be just fine and maybe even stellar specimens. I've bred full siblings and half siblings. No two-headed birds here, LOL.

 

[joletabey]

You can do it. People do it all the time with no trouble. From what I understand you can keep breeding the generations for quite some time before you get problems.

 

[doubled]

if you DO get two headed birds...please post photos...

 

[Julie_A]

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