JDJ American Bulldog Preservation Board: Inbreeding when do we do it or should we?

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Inbreeding when do we do it or should we?

Posted by Mark and Tammy @ Big Sky (JDJlinesUnited) on 4/11/2008, 10:36 pm
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INBREEDING is the mating of animals "more closely related to one another than the average relationship within the breed." Example, brother/sister or parent/child breeding. It should only be done by ethical and experienced breeders. Inbreeding can create genetic monsters or it can be the best way to improve and standardize (set traits) in a bloodline. In the first sense, it's useful as a tool to reveal hidden and recessive genetic problems by doubling up on them and making them expressive. Hidden defects that are expressed in inbreeding should be culled immediately, no exceptions. In the second sense when a bloodline is heterotrophic for beneficial traits you can do an inbreeding to make them homozygous, ie: in a truly heterotrophic bloodline that has been carefully developed by an ethical and responsible breeder, only the preset desirable qualities will be seen in the resulting offspring?s. In plain english... ONLY experienced, ethical and responsible breeders should ever attempt an inbreeding.

Some people think "it would be like you having kids with your brother same mom and dad different birth same thing!"............ WRONG! Canine genetics and human genetics are totally different! Very Very Very Totally different!
Thoughts and things people hear and why they hear these things!!!

"A vet told us you cannot breed mother and son but you can breed father and daughter"...........WOW!You hear things from all kinds of people who act like they know what there saying with no experience!! Experience is the "Best Teacher"!! It would be wise to start l@@king for another vet. If I were you because your vet must have gotten his diploma online and his license at the flea-market! Like some of the breeders out there you see now a days!!
Just some thoughts to ponder!Without a doubt This practice is not for a Novice but someone who has got experience. Or has good knowlegable help backing him or her. Perfectly willing to cull. Will take that risk in order to get the best qualities in there gene pool!

"You never breed brother and sister.".... (SEE ABOVE)

FYI..... I am not a large scale breeder,have bred maybe twenty pairs or twenty five in twenty years! I have inbreed father/daughter and brother/sister dogs on my yard that I've bred, in fact... I have seen results that have been proven to improve the breed!
I'm looking for more consistency in my bloodline. I'm looking to isolate genes that are undersirable and in order to do this I must go tight.