LineBreeding Question? - Page 1

Hello Everyone,

What exactly is Linebreeding? I have been reading that some breeders advertise "No Linebreeding".  What are the Pro's and Con's of Linebreeding in GSD'S and why would someone do this? Please educate me. Thanks.......

this article might help

"Breeding Schemes" by John Armstrong

http://siriusdog.com/breeding-dogs-genetics-inbreeding-linebreeding.htm

also this topic has been discussed many times here so if you click on "search messageboard" and run a search for linebreeding you should come up with lots of hits

no linebreeding is also know as outcrossing.  linebreeding is inbreeding, different name, and the close relatives are further back.

like said before, search messageboard for it and you will come up with lots of threads about it.

john

There's a difference between Linebreeding and inbreeding even if it's only the degree of closeness involved.  Some definitions say that inbreeding is only that done between 1-2 generation... such as brother/sister , Father/Daugher or Mother/Son. Other more strict purests say that it's any breeding with a common ancestor in the first 3 generations... and that common ancestors in the 4th generation on constitutes linebreeding, and is the prefered choice of many people trying to consistantly produce a simular type of dog.

   The first type of close inbreeding should be done seldom if ever, and only by experienced breeders who are well  versed on the lines involved and what faults and strengths are recessively produced occasionalls as doing an inbreeding will generally bring those faults to the foreground.  At times it's done to determine if a specific dog carries a recessive trait such as long coats or off colors or to strengthen a trait that they are seeking such as prey drive etc. Again that kind of breeding should be done with a specific goal in mind... and by someone very very very experienced with the specific bloodlines involved.  Most agree that after inbreeding one generation it's wise to outcross to a line with simular traits rather than continue to line or inbreed on the same line. 

   I'll add that ya NEVER KNOW what someone else will do with what you produce 2 or three generations down the road. While you may be very careful about what you do, others can take off from there and gawd knows where it goes!! I was involved in breeding for 18 years or so... and generally linebred.  (did only one inbreeding in those years for a specific goal and kept the only unaltered progeny from that breeding... there was no need to cull as all were  healthy but didn't want others inbreeding again on the same pattern) One of my Males was son of my foundation bitch, the other a linebred grandson from she and her sister out of a different son.  Each was only ever bred to 8 females in their life, and produced quite well in those breedings.  I stopped breeding 15 years ago... and just checked into the current lines being used... the #1 dog world wide in that breed carries 17 lines to one of the boys, and 10 to the 2nd...on almost every male line!  While he's handsome, and seems to be producing okay, I would not have continued to breed so closely on the same genetic pool !!!