can you breed father and daughter and brother and sister

[westonloveschickens]

for chickens and breeding can you breed brother and sister or father and daughter? with out there being a defect in the genitics or i9n the body and attitude of the chickens

 

[Cattitude]

Yes. Happens all the time, both deliberately and non. The chickens don't perceive that sort of relationship.

 

[gryeyes]

Inbreeding with chickens is normally not a negative issue unless you have a small, closed flock and never introduce any other birds for several "generations." And then it's usually just in producing less than desirable features, not defects.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

sometimes that's how ppl. get the best traits actually.....I just aked that question a couple of months ago and that was my responce....so I was glad to hear it.

 

[gootziecat]

Most people are afraid of linebreeding and inbreeding. Linebreeding is basically a distant form of inbreeding. There is nothing wrong with inbreeding. The main thing you must know is you aren't going to get anything that isn't already in your chickens' genes. That can be bad, that can be good, but you will never get anything more that what's already there. Traits for type, color, and temperment are genetic and passed on to the offspring, sometimes skipping a generation or two, sometimes not. The breeder is the only person responsible for culling out the traits he doesn't want or are undesirable. So in a nutshell, inbreeding is chancy of getting something you don't see when you look at your chicken, and may not even want. But sometimes it works the other way.One must be on guard to not lose those traits already there you desire. The icing on the cake is, if you diligently cull, you will be reward with a chicken that is dominant for those traits you want to pass on to the offspring. In other words, his/her "stamp" will be established. Having said that, inbreeding is often misunderstood and overwhelming for a beginning. I would suggest some reading on the subject.

 

[Sissy]

Great question and great answers.
Icrossed a white silkie Roo over a black silkie hen and got
2 red silkies and 2 blue mutts with yellow feet and 4 toes.
silkies were bought from a breeder.

you hope for the best and never know what you will get,
But they are all special fluffy butts.

 

[westonloveschickens]

well thats ... diffrent arnt silkies supposed to have black feet and 5 toes ( my freind told me that ) but other then that how in the world did that happen? silkie with silkie or were they both brother and sister or something like that?
the reason i ask for this is becuase i might actually be getting chickens which amazes me becuase i've wanted chickens for the longest time now and what my parents are going to do is let the parents hatch out a batch of eggs then kill the parents and raise the chicks for a few years the start the process all over again which makes me really sad becuase i wont want to kill them but my point is that if i can breed brother and sister becuase other then not killing the dad thats going to be my only choice

~ thanks

 

[australorpchick]

I think it has something to do with the White Roo and what his underlying color is. At least that would explain the red coloring. Sonoran Silkies would be the person to ask when it comes to silkie color genetics.

 

[Brendasue68]

well thats ... diffrent arnt silkies supposed to have black feet and 5 toes ( my freind told me that ) but other then that how in the world did that happen? silkie with silkie or were they both brother and sister or something like that?
the reason i ask for this is becuase i might actually be getting chickens which amazes me becuase i've wanted chickens for the longest time now and what my parents are going to do is let the parents hatch out a batch of eggs then kill the parents and raise the chicks for a few years the start the process all over again which makes me really sad becuase i wont want to kill them but my point is that if i can breed brother and sister becuase other then not killing the dad thats going to be my only choice

~ thanks

If they are healthy why not sell or give them away instead of culling them? Somebody out there may want them or even need them.

 

[NatJ]

If they are healthy why not sell or give them away instead of culling them? Somebody out there may want them or even need them.

You are responding to a post that was made in 2010 (almost 14 years ago), and the person who made that post has not been on this site since. So I don't think the advice is going to help them. (Each post does have a date on it, but it's easy to forget to check that. I have made that mistake myself, more times than I like to admit!)

As for why to kill chickens instead of rehoming them: I would do it because I like to eat chicken. But for the person you quoted, I cannot say whether they had a different reason than what I would have. If they are just worried about inbreeding, then I agree that rehoming the chickens would be just as effective as killing them.