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I doubt it makes much difference. All Biels in the US are derived from a single import by Greenfire, so if inbreeding is the source of their problems, there is no way out of that, other than crossing them to some other breed. If I were to embark on an improvement program, I would say the best breed to use is a the Welbar. They are quite similar in many ways.
Hi ,
there is another way then cross breeding .
Bob Blosl also explained it to me one day when I asked him . It goes like this : two people take birds from the same Foundation. they live at least 500 miles apart. in five to six years they swap Birds(for whatever they need at the time). because of the difference in management, feed, climate , and breeding decisions, the result will be more like a line breeding than inbreeding.
Bob explain to me that veteran breeders do this as a way to keep their lines robust without losing the stability of their gene pool by outcrossing or Crossbreeding.
Best,
Karen
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