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Awesome information! Thanks for those links rainplace--those are very good articles. This whole thread answers a lot of my questions, and gives me lots of food for thought too. Thank you all.

Thank you all SO much for the input. It is really helpful. And now I am going to reveal the depths of my ignorance while I probe some of the issues raised here... So... if I have two breeding pens with, say, a drake and three hens in one; and a drake and three hens in another; and they are all...

Thanks, rainplace! That's good to know about the 6th or 7th generation--so I guess around the 4th or 5th you start outcrossing, right? I would love to get to talk to Dave Holderread--I'm jealous!! Let me know if either of those books tell you what you want to know. I am having trouble online...

I am getting ready to breed this Spring, with a specific goal in mind. I have read Holderread's Storey's Guide, of course, many many times, and done lots of online research. But one thing I haven't seen a lot of information about is how much inbreeding is okay, and when it's necessary to...