Is it ok for a father to fertilize his female chicks when they reach a good age? Or do you have to seperate them. Help!!!!
It's called line breeding and some people breed their birds like that, so I don't think it's a problem. Welcome to BYC!!
They say you can breed father to daughter and mother to son. Most people don't think its a good idea to breed brother and sister though.
i think it lowers certain immunities in the offspring because if the brother is immunodeficient to Mareks, and the sister has a strong immunities to Mareks, the sister's immunity is diluted by the brother's deficiency.
Linebreeding is an acceptable practice. Brother to sister is even okay, but be warned, it will, after a couple of generations, concentrate any less-than-wonderful traits as well as the good ones.