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Farm Question 7/17/2015

Posted by Jerry Hicks at 2015-07-17 04:45:35

Is line breeding a form of inbreeding?

Response by KC Fox at 2015-07-17 10:14:10

all line breeding is inbreeding, yes

Response by Kate V(Va) at 2015-07-17 10:33:10

Yes.

Response by Kate V(Va) at 2015-07-17 10:34:08

The running/old joke.....if successful, its line breeding, if failure, its in-breeding.

Response by KM at 2015-07-17 10:57:10

The theory is to isolate the line of horses to fix a genetic trait. If done with inferior animals then you can fix the undesirable traits and we get defects.

Response by Jerry Hicks at 2015-07-20 04:43:30

Yes.

Response by msills at 2015-07-20 17:44:49

i think i may have inspired this question!

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