He may be purchasing inbred animals WITHOUT PROBLEMS, but when he breeds them to his unrelated animals, the offspring WILL NOT be inbred, so his is about as safe as he can be in terms of acquiring unrelated animals to his for breeding purposes.
Sorry, but I don't see how that follows. The entire problem with inbreeding is using two animals with a specific genetic anomaly that when both parents carry the anomaly it is expressed. In inbreeding this can be different degrees of expression, and sometimes even 100% of offspring show the effects. (That does not mean the anomaly is visible.) If a carrier is bred to an unrelated animal they still pass the anomaly on as much as 100% of the time.
Bear in mind I said without problems. My take on @Ridgetop's comment (and he was saying it in jest) was that in an attempt to gat unrelated animals (from the sale barn) the animals that may be purchased/are acquired from the sale barn are themselves inbred. These inbred animals then become the parents of the offspring that are the animals that are targeted to not be inbred. My point was that if either parent of an intended offspring is inbred (or both of them) was that the resulting offspring, that is attempted to not be inbred, would indeed NOT be inbred, having received only 1 chromosome from each parent which results in none of the paired chromosomes in the offspring being from the same source, which is essentially what being inbred is. So, the offspring are therefore not inbred.
Wow I haven't heard that name in years. Poco Bueno was basically the start of Appaloosa cutting horses in the 70's. Believe he was dead before that but his name was tied into almost every top performer. We had several geldings in that line and while we didn't cut they were sure top roping horses for us.
Poco can be found in the pedigrees of most cutting bred horses,. due to his 2 grandsons, Dry Doc and Doc O'lena. What happened to Poco Lena is one of the greatest tragedies in QH history. I still cringe when I think of it.
Yeah, you're crossing lines when you had dock bar and Poco in the same bloodline. That little runt dock bar was one hell of a horse also
It is very simple genetics . The more inbred they are the more the recessive genes are expressed in the phenotype.
He was bred to be a race horse, but he couldn't run, so they pulled him off the tracks. He was then shown halter, and won 9 grand championships. But his claim to fame, is as one of the top 5 cutting horse sires of all time. As far as I know, he himself never cut a cow. But his get sure could!
We breed half sister to half brother all the time once in 3 gen. ped. its not the breeding its what is behind it that can get u into problems. long time ago we bred half sister to half brother out of full sisters and got into trouble. so u need to know ur cows but we found out that by doing that we keep what we got i dont like 7 bulls in a 3 gen. ped. cause u dont get eveness out of that.
Every living thing that reproduces sexually has DNA.
its the genetics there buying.
LOL... I was responding. Notice the question mark? Sarcasm...
WOW .
It's only taboo to humans for obvious reasons. Its nothing new in the animal world.
www.discovermagazine.com
In a natural world there is very little chance of inbreeding.
I can't begin to tell you how little I agree with that. And the number of people that would agree damages the industry. But trying to counter these popularly accepted conclusions only leads to arguments and invested people digging in their heels to defend instead of learn and change their minds. It is the new way of the world...
