Help! Inbreeding/Linebreeding - need opinions - Page 3

In-breeding is never a smart thing to do because of health and temperamet issues.

That is so untrue.  Health and temperament issues are a concern for all breeding strategies.  It's just as often misconceived that linebreeding/inbreeding on any particular "great" ancestor will provide success.  If it could only be that simple, but genotype really matters.

I disagree , also , as many breeders of cattle , bulls that sell for 100,00.00 for top meat producing and birds of the top champion lines are all inbreed by the experts to get the certain charachterics to  mainline and stay put in the breed...every dog line we  have has been inbred back in the generations somewhere...just study them  and it takes months to follow all of them  ...If there is a  health issue  then you got the wrong blood line and you dont do it....and there are many other issues to bring forward...inbreeding is a whole nuther thread and a long study.. Yes, you may enhance the bad and the good. I really dont think any top breeder or expert genetics breeder is going to share much of what they do or dont do...I think that is a highly private business decision and is part of their kennels own learnings.  Good business people dont disclose how they achieve their success stories., usually until they are gone to the mansion in the sky and then a book gets written on it...those books are kinda hard for me to understand on genetics.

I had to go to a breeders home for months , years ago and she gave me books and reports and made charts and did chalk board talks to help me figure out even what all the ins and out of all the breeding choices are...cross , out and line and in are very deep and need  a lot of hours of study....Maybe someone on our board who is good at explaining can take each one and make a thread about each and do a chart or explanation and how it works....would make a good info for all of us.

The hardest part of the inbreeding is when I was told by a german breeder , that I had better be ready to dispose of a ,or any part of a litter that went wrong....Had a hard time with that...but that is part of the business.

I had a friend who went for a father x daughter at half price and I warned him, and his vet warned him, to no avail.  The dog died at 11 months.  Three of his litermates were dead by 18 months.

The risk of recessive and lethal chromosomal issues is huge in a young dog. 

On the other hand, if it were an old male, fit and competitive, I'd take him, as his offspring will show some positive hybrid vigor, and he is too old to show up with anything nasty, except some age onset diseases.