Potential Inbreeding

[SoccerMomof7]

I have been wondering the same thing....

 

[greyfields]

You may find crossbreeding advantageous if you are seeking high egg laying birds for your flock. However, you only get predictable results in the F1 mating (meaning the first cross from a sire of one breed and a dame from another).

If you try to re-breed the F1 hybrids the DNA goes to chaos and you get 100 birds with 100 different qualities. As we say in farming, hybrids don't "breed true" meaning you get the same bird as the parents. This is only true of purebreeds. So you should always have a standing flock of purebreds available to you.

I personally think people ought to keep the same rooster as hens if they plan to breeds. Some breeds are endangered, so the more small breeders out there the better for the preservation of their genetics.

But with that said, purebreds have a certain look but aren't the most efficient birds as far as production qualities. A livestock breed is created by having a family tree that converges toa single point, rather than branches out. So, you're always working with a limited gene pool. So if you are farming for a hobby or profit, you'll probably want to be making your own hybrids.

 

[normajean]

You just totally brought me back to 11th grade BIOLOGY....egads!
Thanks for giving me something to think about

 

[Carolina Chicken Man]

This is very interesting, and a lot of useful information.
I appreciate to all who replied, and if anyone else has anything to add, please do.

 

[Eggseronious]

Linebreeding is good but U must cull heavy. Linebreeding and heavy culling retains the good traits and U cull the bad, so it works.

 

[lilcountry]

Thanks

 

[:D]

So if you have a rooster in a pen with his sisters or half sisters do you run the risk of getting deformed or weak chickens?

 

[bamadominaker]

Well you guys have totally gave me a great idea, when I get my first batch of chicks from the hens and roo I have, I will make sure I seperate them, marking them with leg bands. Same color band same batch. I have been dealing with genetic mutations for over ten years, I don't think I want to deal with that with my chickens. Have genetic disorders in humans is difficult enough, I can't imagen having a chick I get attached to having something wrong with it b/c I messed up. I couldn't control my genetics but if I can control theirs that is a blessing.

Nice Healthy Chickens

typo.

 

[Pine Grove]

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So if you have a rooster in a pen with his sisters or half sisters do you run the risk of getting deformed or weak chickens?

My experience after a couple of generations has been a decline in fertility/hatchablity..Its the quickest way to set a trait by intensifying the good genes, but at the same time intensifying the bad​

 

[seedcorn]

All breeds of chickens have some "inbreeding" in them. Line breeding is inbreeding--. Inbreeding means simply that the 2 parents are related.

You "line breed" to emphasis a certain trait. Unfortunatley sometimes you emphasis the "wrong trait" as well and have to cull.

Crossing 2 different inbred lines gives you the greatest amount of hybrid vigor (altho this in itself may not be a good thing).

You try matings, the ones you like, you keep, the ones you don't like, cull.