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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1573571" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>I'd say the opposite. But you will or should have less variation in a purebred effort of linebreeding. The survival scheme of organisms is to retain variation in a population or at least the variation seems to perpetuate the efforts of man and nature. Maybe the ones of variance are the ones with the least real inbreeding. What you would end up doing in a crossbred start and a linebreeding program is the tendency to select for traits most common in one breed and skew the efforts in that you are somewhat selecting that breed back out of the mix.</p><p></p><p>"First understanding the terms." </p><p>I am not disagreeing with you but just like EPDs are the expected performance of the average calf from a sire or dam, the %IBC is also the average inbreeding of offspring. That is part of the variation and thus a need to sort even in a tightly bred situation. Some will be more like the sire, some more like the dam, some will represent the mitochondrial DNA and some will represent recessive genes. It's not bad, it's not good, it just is.</p><p></p><p>A simple example of the variation is the comparison of half sibs in any herd. People still sort off the bottom half, market the top end and see sale results vary based on individual performance and enhanced EPDs of each offering. Much less how they sire animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1573571, member: 24565"] I'd say the opposite. But you will or should have less variation in a purebred effort of linebreeding. The survival scheme of organisms is to retain variation in a population or at least the variation seems to perpetuate the efforts of man and nature. Maybe the ones of variance are the ones with the least real inbreeding. What you would end up doing in a crossbred start and a linebreeding program is the tendency to select for traits most common in one breed and skew the efforts in that you are somewhat selecting that breed back out of the mix. "First understanding the terms." I am not disagreeing with you but just like EPDs are the expected performance of the average calf from a sire or dam, the %IBC is also the average inbreeding of offspring. That is part of the variation and thus a need to sort even in a tightly bred situation. Some will be more like the sire, some more like the dam, some will represent the mitochondrial DNA and some will represent recessive genes. It's not bad, it's not good, it just is. A simple example of the variation is the comparison of half sibs in any herd. People still sort off the bottom half, market the top end and see sale results vary based on individual performance and enhanced EPDs of each offering. Much less how they sire animals. [/QUOTE]
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