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<blockquote data-quote="usernametaken" data-source="post: 482538" data-attributes="member: 6820"><p>Thanks for the overview Army Doc. I think there is no doubt you cannot linebreed for ever, and must outcross at some point for vigor, longevity, fertility, etc. But even if an individual is the picture of health, I tend to think of it as those negative genes are still lying hidden but not necessarily all gone ?? And would therefore be more easily expressed when you must go back to an outcross ? My thinking is that random mating increases vigor, etc. by a random mixing of the genes, making it a crapshoot, but linebreeding minimizes the crapshoot of genetic material. If I wanted to produce seedstock I would be looking at linebreeding to set the best traits to dominate and if I was producing simply for meat and the market I would want that f1 outcross for the vigor. Is that all wet ?</p><p></p><p>Melissa</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="usernametaken, post: 482538, member: 6820"] Thanks for the overview Army Doc. I think there is no doubt you cannot linebreed for ever, and must outcross at some point for vigor, longevity, fertility, etc. But even if an individual is the picture of health, I tend to think of it as those negative genes are still lying hidden but not necessarily all gone ?? And would therefore be more easily expressed when you must go back to an outcross ? My thinking is that random mating increases vigor, etc. by a random mixing of the genes, making it a crapshoot, but linebreeding minimizes the crapshoot of genetic material. If I wanted to produce seedstock I would be looking at linebreeding to set the best traits to dominate and if I was producing simply for meat and the market I would want that f1 outcross for the vigor. Is that all wet ? Melissa [/QUOTE]
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