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Sharon Yorks:
1. If a person wanted to use one rooster for two breeding pens, how often would you want to switch the rooster to assure fertility? Would you need to switch him back and forth from pen to pen everyday?

2. And, if you had two hens that were twin sisters, and you bred a rooster to hen #1, would it be considered inbreeding if you bred the chick out of those two back to hen #2...the aunt of the chick? Can you breed a chick to its aunt? Weird question, I know, but I don\'t know how the DNA and/or the genes work in this case.

Any thoughts on these matters would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sharon

John:

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I move mine twice a week.  Sundays and Wednesdays work for me.  
I have other coops with 1 hen each that I don\'t leave the cocks in with.  They have their own coops, but they visit the hens on Sundays, Wednesdays and Holidays.  ;)

OldChurchEggery:
I\'ve heard it explained that \"inbreeding\" is brother-sister mating as opposed to line-breeding, which is father/daughter mother/son. I guess by \"twin sister\" you mean hatchmates out of the same rooster/hen combination. You could definitely breed the offspring of one sister to the other sister if you wanted to create two lines of genetically similar birds. There are so many ways of creating lines and breeding programs there\'s something for everybody. I\'m still so early in it that anything I\'m hatching now (as far as Ameraucanas go) they\'re all F1s.

Mike Gilbert:
I\'ve also heard it is line breeding if it works, inbreeding if it doesn\'t work. ;)

Sharon Yorks:
Yes, by twins I meant hatchmates out of the same rooster/hen combo. They look so much alike I can only tell them apart by one hens left middle toenail. One is the hen I\'m holding in the picture in the avatar. I\'d really like to get more of these so it\'s great to hear I can breed them like that. I didn\'t know you could breed mother/son. Is line-breeding something that is a normal thing or is it a risk thing that \"might\" work? I don\'t want no weird chicks running around...and what happens to a chick when it \"doesn\'t\" work? I\'d like to get more of a selection of branched out lines from these two hens. I just have to figure out how to do it.

Oh, what does F1 mean?

Sharon

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