I have a chicken question.....

[zoel_222]

I have a 1 year old Araucana rooster named Woost!AHHH and this year a hen hatched 8 of his chicks. Next year, when the chicks are grown up will I have to get rid of Woost!AHHH? Will it be bad if he tries to breed with his chicks? Or will he not do that?

[WashingtonBay]

Do you not eat the eggs? I don't remember.

I bet you wouldn't have too many issues for your purposes, with line breeding that first generation. I think it's if you let it go several generations with no new blood, that you'd end up with potential defects that keep getting magnified.

[zoel_222]

I don't eat the eggs, no. My family members do and we're planning on selling them after our batch from this year grows up. We have about 15 new 2 month old chicks that we bought from the feed store so it's not like all he has are his own.

[JackieB]

I don't know about chicken husbandry, but you come up with the coolest names for your animals!

[root tootin' scoot]

Yes, they will most deffinitely do the nasty with their daughters...even their mothers sometimes...
As WB said- And over time if you let this go on their will most likely be defects in future offspring