I made a big mistake...

[peafowl_Lover]

Hi, this is my first time hatching chicks with my broody ayam cemani. Her name is Dove, and she's doing a great job. We're on day 4. I gave her eggs from my own flock, but I realised yesterday that my rooster Walter is related to one of my hens Bluebell, they share the same father, I'm pretty sure as I bought them as eggs, and the owner had 1 breeding pen, so more than likely they are related. One of the 4 eggs under Dove is Bluebell's. So if this egg hatches Walter, its father will also be its half uncle, and Bluebell, it's mother, is it's half aunt.
Will this be a big problem?
I won't ever make this mistake again
Thanks

 

[sourland]

Unless the parent birds were highly inbred, this should pose no problem whatsoever. Chickens handle inbreeding quite well.

 

[catsndogs4us]

This shouldn't be a problem. Its not something you can easily control in a flock unless you have multiple coops to keep them separate. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[peafowl_Lover]

Ok, phew I was worried, I'm really excited for Dove to be a mom

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hi, this is my first time hatching chicks with my broody ayam cemani. Her name is Dove, and she's doing a great job. We're on day 4. I gave her eggs from my own flock, but I realised yesterday that my rooster Walter is related to one of my hens Bluebell, they share the same father, I'm pretty sure as I bought them as eggs, and the owner had 1 breeding pen, so more than likely they are related. One of the 4 eggs under Dove is Bluebell's. So if this egg hatches Walter, its father will also be its half uncle, and Bluebell, it's mother, is it's half aunt.
Will this be a big problem?
I won't ever make this mistake again
Thanks

It's perfectly fine. Unless they're so closely related that there's little to no diversity among them, then there'll be some problems.

Inbreeding is a practice breeders use to produce, & replicate better birds, or lock in particular desired traits. There's a few different forms of Inbreeding used.

 

[peafowl_Lover]

I candled them last night. It was day 4, I know it was early, but I love looking at the embryos. I saw one embryo from Bluebells egg. 2 of the eggs were a bit too dark to see early development. The last egg is a white one. I believe it is not fertile. I will candle again tonight. I have 17 hens with Walter, so I think he didn't mate with all of them. But if only 1 chick hatches, I will get her 2 more as the 1 chick will be lonely when Dove abandons the chick when it is older.