How can I identify Parent Stock Chickens?

[mooSa]

Hi, I've always been curious how to know if a certain breed of chicken is parent stock or normal. What are the differences between the parent stock and the babies of the parent stock? and how to know the parent stock for leghorns?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I'm not sure I understand the question.
Can you re-phrase?

Lisa

 

[WalkingWolf]

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I am not sure but I think they mean chicks are from inbreeding back to the parents, which is common for breeders breeding for a certain trait. I don't think there is any way to tell if they are from parent stock outside of asking.

But if you get chicks from a breeder with 1 rooster to several hens you are going to end up breeding brother to sister. Again unless you encounter defects I believe is normal and accepted in breeding chickens.

 

[mooSa]

Ok let me make this more clear. This is concerning Laying Parent Stock.

1) How can I Identify Parent Stock hens compared with the hens of the parent stock. So Using the example below- Whats the difference between LINE 1 AND LINE 2.


2) Why are the chicks from parent stock useless when it comes to using them to make more chicks.
For example: Line 1 = Parent Stock
Line 2 = Chickens from Parent Stock used for laying business
Line 3 = Chickens from Line 2
Now why are line 3 Chickens not good layers and why cant i reproduce from line 2.

 

[NYREDS]

I don't know about anyone else But I still have no idea what you're asking??????

 

[speckledhen]

Me, either. Honestly, all I can think of is "how can I tell the parents from the children?". In all my reading, I haven't seen things worded like that. Sorry, no idea.

 

[deb1]

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Are you talking about inbreeding? Maybe mating grandchicks back to their grandparents? As if a rooster mated a hen and then mated with her chicks and then mated with his chick's chicks?

Whew! That was a very confusing sentence to write.

 

[sjarvis00]

Ok, I think I understand half your question.....

if you have original chickens and breed hen to rooster then take the babies from that.... those babies will lay really good, but if you breed them to each other, you might get some good layers and some bad ones..... the 2 round of babies will carry all the good genetics and the bad from the original hen and rooster.... Example

Take a red hen and a white rooster and say the babies come out tan(work with me its early... lol) If you are breeding for that color and you try to breed the babies to each other than half of the new batch of chicks will come out red and the other half white.......... The only way I can think to describe it is when the babies breed babies half of them get the moms genetics and the other half the dads genetics. So the birds from line 3 are no longer like line 2. They have went back to being line 1.

Gosh, I hope I answered that right. And that you understood it.

 

[mooSa]

I do understand what your saying and that helped me alot. But now how do I breed parent stock layers then? Well if you know an article that explains this it would help alot. Thanks

 

[sjarvis00]

If you go to alot of auctions, try to talk to the older breeders. They can help tell you what you are trying to accomplish and how to do it.