10/16/12, 09:33 PM
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Lost in the Wiregrass
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: S.E.Alabama
Posts: 8,552
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if they have the breeding behind them then this buckling should be an improvement over both of them, if your not wanting to keep any more than two milkers (good luck with that) then there is no reason not to keep this buckling indeffinatly and he will breed both no problem for the next several years, even if you kept one of his doelings (or two or ten) and bred back to him as long as its the best possible then there is no problem, you get fresh does each year and someone gets amazing genetics as bottle babys,
here is the thing to remimber about InBreeding, LineBreeding and OutCrossing, they are TOOLS, each with its use and method, Inbreeding/LineBreeding will concentrate only the genetic code that is actually AVAILABLE, weather its good or bad, it DOES NOT CREATE problems, if you have a good strong solid line with little to no problems you can inbreed almost indeffinatly with out problems for a long long time, now if you have a weak line with lots of hidden issues then you are in trouble from the start, you use these tools to weed out the bad or unwanted genetic codes so that you get a uniform relyable improvement each year, like sorting a deck of playing cards so you know what your going to get each hand,
now with OutCrossing this is used ONLY to bring in new blood, new genetic codes, people like this because its easy, doesnt really take much thinking, and you will hardly ever if at all see any glaring defects because they are all hidden in the first shuffle, its like takeing your pre sorted deck of cards and mixing in another unsorted deck, and a whole new set of wild cards to figure out, a good breeder then has to start inbreeding or line breeding if it makes you happyer to call it that, to remove the un needed stuff and get back to what they originally had except with the added improvement that they had tried to bring in from the outside line,
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