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I winced when I read this.
If any n00bs come across this quote, I'd urge you to do further reading on the difference between inbreeding and line breeding, as well as the whens, whys, and cautionary tales.
Best of luck!
so you are telling me hatchmates can't breed from the same parents(if eggs came from a large flock then they are usually only half siblings)? I really don't know what you are getting at? Linebreeding can cause problems but most people think that if you take a related bird it is inbreeding and most times it is not so.
My point to the poster was they wouldn't be inbreeding if they bred their birds
It is a common practice to breed back to fathers, grandfathers, and sometimes siblings which someone unfamiliar with these practices would call inbreeding.
When I researched buying my show dogs I was looking at pedigrees and was concerned because they were all *inbred*(from what I had learned in school). The down side is sometimes it accentuates faults. i.e. one of my dogs came from the breeder that had won at westminster shortly after I got my puppy from her. My dog was a half sibling to this #1 dog. My dog was so tightly line bred that he ended up being placed in a pet home because he ended up partly lame at just over a year because of a joint issue as a result of his breeding.
I have La Fleche that came from an exhibition breeder. He hasn't brought in any new blood in many, many years. My birds look awesome but I am concerned because many hatched missing toenails. Maybe because of many years using the same birds, maybe coincidence.
From the dictionary-just a small clip
Linebreeding, a specific form of inbreeding, is accomplished through breedings of cousins, aunt to nephew, half brother to half sister.
So what did I not convey properly?
eta- I have also spoken to some top breeders that have told me to cross some birds then take the pullets and cross them back to their father, are they wrong?
I winced when I read this.
If any n00bs come across this quote, I'd urge you to do further reading on the difference between inbreeding and line breeding, as well as the whens, whys, and cautionary tales.
Best of luck!
so you are telling me hatchmates can't breed from the same parents(if eggs came from a large flock then they are usually only half siblings)? I really don't know what you are getting at? Linebreeding can cause problems but most people think that if you take a related bird it is inbreeding and most times it is not so.
My point to the poster was they wouldn't be inbreeding if they bred their birds
It is a common practice to breed back to fathers, grandfathers, and sometimes siblings which someone unfamiliar with these practices would call inbreeding.
When I researched buying my show dogs I was looking at pedigrees and was concerned because they were all *inbred*(from what I had learned in school). The down side is sometimes it accentuates faults. i.e. one of my dogs came from the breeder that had won at westminster shortly after I got my puppy from her. My dog was a half sibling to this #1 dog. My dog was so tightly line bred that he ended up being placed in a pet home because he ended up partly lame at just over a year because of a joint issue as a result of his breeding.
I have La Fleche that came from an exhibition breeder. He hasn't brought in any new blood in many, many years. My birds look awesome but I am concerned because many hatched missing toenails. Maybe because of many years using the same birds, maybe coincidence.
From the dictionary-just a small clip
Linebreeding, a specific form of inbreeding, is accomplished through breedings of cousins, aunt to nephew, half brother to half sister.
So what did I not convey properly?
eta- I have also spoken to some top breeders that have told me to cross some birds then take the pullets and cross them back to their father, are they wrong?
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