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Okay, question # 1 ~ If you have pure breeds, can you breed brother and sister? #2~ If you have Pure breeds, and one female from Ideal hatchery, can you successfully breed them togather and eventually have a purebred offspring down the line? Myra |
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| | From:  Mentha© | Sent: 3/10/2003 4:28 PM |
#1 yes you can breed brother and sister, but only if that is a one time breeding, it is ideal to have different lines. If you are breeding for a certain trait then you can. It would be a better line breed if you bred mother & son/ father & daughter. Too many family breedings will cause defects and a less sturdy strain. #2 I don't know. I don't think that they are as strict with chickens as say dogs or goats. |
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Myra, line breeding (the breeding of closely related animals) is the most common way of breeding top show stock. It will intensify the desirable genes in a line - but the downside is that it will also intensify any genetic faults. Most breeders will hatch as many chicks as possible from a given mating, and then expect to cull heavily any that are not suitable. This is what we did with our Black Pekin bantams - I hatched nearly 60 chicks one year, to get a trio that were show quality (others were suitable as breeders and sold as such, some were given away as pets, but some were hopeless and were culled). It sounds tough - but it gave me a cockerel that won Best Bantam at 3 shows!! If you have one bird of a pair that is of doubtful stock, you can still breed from it, but again I would suggest hatching as many as possible and selecting maybe 2-3 that are close to what you want, to breed back to the better of the two parents. As there is no formal pedigree register for poultry, there is not a set number of generations to reach "pure" stock - if it looks like what it should be and breeds true, it IS that breed.
Good luck. |
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