So i have a question on breeding

[Animal-lover339]

So good afternoon,i hope your having a greagt day. I have have a hen who i recently discovered was laying some eggs,so i dont know her breed but on a forum here someone told me she was a hybrid i dont know which breed. But i know. Shes a hybrid so i read an alarming post online that said hybrids cant breed is this true?and does it mean i cant get chicks from her? I want chicks eventually so this is alarming i also read that her offspring wont be layers nor the same color wich is understandable cuz shes a hybrid but if im wrong someone. Please let me know i want to learn more and more


That is my nugget shes the one who is laying i believe her sisters. Are also hybrids

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They can breed. They just can't breed true. Meaning they won't reproduce their kind, just another mutt - barnyard mix.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Your Nugget is adorable!!! ♥

 

[Animal-lover339]

They can breed. They just can't breed true. Meaning they won't reproduce their kind, just another mutt - barnyard mix.

Ohhhhhhh thank youuuuu so meaning theyll breed their same kind or just small chickens like my first hen? Thats my first hen

 

[Animal-lover339]

Your Nugget is adorable!!! ♥

Thank yoy very much i aadore her shes full of personality. And love

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not necessarily. A hybrid, or any mixed breed will have mixed genetics. When they are mated with any breed, even the same hybrid, the offspring can't readily be predicted, depending on what genes are dominant/recessive. The offspring could look completely different, be a different color and different size/shape, different combs, etc..

 

[Animal-lover339]

Not necessarily. A hybrid, or any mixed breed will have mixed genetics. When they are mated with any breed, even the same hybrid, the offspring can't readily be predicted, depending on what genes are dominant/recessive. The offspring could look completely different, be a different color and different size/shape, different combs, etc..

Ohhhh alrihhty thank you very much that was helpfull

 

[annageckos]

For some reason in the chicken world when people say 'hybrid' they are talking about a chicken that is mixed breed. But it is normally intentionally mixed for a purpose. In the rest of the animal world a hybrid is a mix of closely related species. Red and black sex links are called hybrids, but they are just the product of two different breeds mixed together to get increased egg production and be sexed at hatch.
So chicken 'hybrids' won't breed true. If you breed two red sex links together you will not get another red sex link. You will likely get something similar to the parents, but you may end up with a surprise in there too.

 

[Animal-lover339]

For some reason in the chicken world when people say 'hybrid' they are talking about a chicken that is mixed breed. But it is normally intentionally mixed for a purpose. In the rest of the animal world a hybrid is a mix of closely related species. Red and black sex links are called hybrids, but they are just the product of two different breeds mixed together to get increased egg production and be sexed at hatch.
So chicken 'hybrids' won't breed true. If you breed two red sex links together you will not get another red sex link. You will likely get something similar to the parents, but you may end up with a surprise in there too.

ohhhhh wow well i look foward to chicks

 

[ChickenCanoe]

For some reason in the chicken world when people say 'hybrid' they are talking about a chicken that is mixed breed. But it is normally intentionally mixed for a purpose. In the rest of the animal world a hybrid is a mix of closely related species. Red and black sex links are called hybrids, but they are just the product of two different breeds mixed together to get increased egg production and be sexed at hatch.
So chicken 'hybrids' won't breed true. If you breed two red sex links together you will not get another red sex link. You will likely get something similar to the parents, but you may end up with a surprise in there too.

Good points. The OPs first post made think of that and I intended to mention that mating related species will yield sterile offspring. Think mules. A cross between a horse and a donkey will beget a mule which is sterile. There have been crossings between chickens and some other galliformes. The offspring of those are also sterile - if they survive.