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<blockquote data-quote="phillse" data-source="post: 393840" data-attributes="member: 5684"><p>you can mate half siblings or the equivalent perpetually forever. The key is to get rid of the trash that shows up in the first 3-4 generations if you are dealling with a closed herd. The thing you have to remeber with linebreeding, you are encreasing your homozygous factor for many different genes. Some of these genes you want and some are trash that are being masked by a dominant allele. The main thing in linebreeding is to realize there will be some trash animals dispose of them and breed the best to the best pretty much as one should do any way. </p><p></p><p>The great benifit of linebreeding is that it helps you clean your herd up and get rid of the unwanted traits (when used properly) this in turn means a more uniform herd in terms of size, milk, growth, calving ease etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phillse, post: 393840, member: 5684"] you can mate half siblings or the equivalent perpetually forever. The key is to get rid of the trash that shows up in the first 3-4 generations if you are dealling with a closed herd. The thing you have to remeber with linebreeding, you are encreasing your homozygous factor for many different genes. Some of these genes you want and some are trash that are being masked by a dominant allele. The main thing in linebreeding is to realize there will be some trash animals dispose of them and breed the best to the best pretty much as one should do any way. The great benifit of linebreeding is that it helps you clean your herd up and get rid of the unwanted traits (when used properly) this in turn means a more uniform herd in terms of size, milk, growth, calving ease etc. [/QUOTE]
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