05/21/08, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: North of Houston TX
Posts: 4,817
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Actually in high production animals, be it meat or dairy, you do want to linebreed. Most would look at my paperwork and think my bunch is inbred, but in reality yes there is a inbred percentage, but not as high as my linebred percentage.
When you are new buy two does, good conformation either for dairyiness or meat. Then purchase two bucks, related by a grandfather is nice, who have mothers that make your eyes buldge, that you could only one day hope to have a herd full of. Use the one buck the first year, then the second year use the second buck on his daughters, back and forth. Obviously we all wish that no culls come from the breedings, or half way through your model breedings, you dont' sell all of one bucks kids because it didn't work out like it did on paper.
When you see an excellent line of animals, its fairly easy to see how the person got that line, and reproduce it. Then the fun of putting your own tweak to the bloodline starts.
Obviously without pedigree it's a crap shoot  Vicki
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Vicki McGaugh
Nubian Soaps
North of Houston TX
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A 3 decade dairy goat farm homestead that is now a retail/wholesale soap company and construction business.
Last edited by Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians; 05/21/08 at 10:58 AM.
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