Buck question

[FarmboyBill]

Do you all use bucks to breed there sisters, moms, or do u use unrelated bucks for the purpose?

[KSALguy]

one buck for everyone here, all but one doe right now are related,

Yes, I use related bucks on my does. I won't take it to extremes.

[Backfourty,MI.]

As long as they are for your own meat consumption it shouldn't be a problem.

My buck is not related to any of my adult doe's. I would if needed breed father to daughter or mother to son but I don't know if I would do sister & brother. Just something I heard not to do. Don't know if I'm right or not but that's what I do.

[Silver Marten]

I am currently using one buck for all of my does.
Linebreeding and especially inbreeding will intensify the traits that you have in your rabbits - both the good and the bad. If you have rabbits that have really good traits in them inbreeding and line breeding can improve those traits but if you inbreed rabbits that - for instance - have narrow shoulders the offspring’s shoulders will be worse than their parents. When inbreeding and line breeding it is very important to cull very hard.

Emily

[Falls-Acre]

Yes I linebreed and have had great success with it. As long as I continue to do so, I see no reason to change a working mating scheme.

ETA, linebreeding is inbreeding, just so you know.

[Silver Marten]

Inbreeding is an intensified version of line breeding. Breeding a sire to daughter or dam to son is a form of linebeeding. Breeding brother to sister is inbreeding.

Emily

[KSALguy]

semantics,