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Old 03-09-2007, 05:22 AM   #1
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Breeding question

I'm kinda confused about the breeding stuff. I have this 2 Dachshund and they are brother and sister. Some say it's not good for brother and sister to breed because when the puppies are born they are weak. Some say that it's ok for brother and sister to breed. Now I'm confused... so which is it ?
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In most cases, it's probably a really bad idea.

If you are an experienced breeder, or a geneticist, it can be a tool to obtain specific desired results.

If you are neither, you have a couple of guinea pigs and I don't think you should be experimenting with them.

Why, exactly, do you want to breed them?
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I agree with what RonE has said. This is called inbreeding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding
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Why would you want to inbred them?
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In most cases, it's probably a really bad idea.

If you are an experienced breeder, or a geneticist, it can be a tool to obtain specific desired results.

If you are neither, you have a couple of guinea pigs and I don't think you should be experimenting with them.

Why, exactly, do you want to breed them?
I don't exactly want to breed them. I just want to know which one true

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Why would you want to inbred them?
I didn't say I want to Inbreed them. I'm just confused on what other people are saying about breeding. So I decided to ask here in the forums so someone can explain it to me properly.

By the way I don't want my Jazz (girl dachshund) to have a soggy breast
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Inbreeding is a bad idea. I hope you get them fixed as soon as possible.
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Inbreeding/Linebreeding is a tool used by breeders to set a genotype. However you really need to know what you are doing and what to look for. I have been breeding animals for years and although I do some linebreeding in my program I tend to stay away from certain line crosses. As some work better then others. Again this takes years to learn and see.

Also I would NEVER cross a full brother sister. As this is too hard to pick/seperate good and bad qualities.

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I don't exactly want to breed them.

I didn't say I want to Inbreed them.
If you don't have at least one of them fixed, you'll be breeding them whether that's your plan or not.

Dogs tend to have minds of their own about these things.
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Very experienced breeders MIGHT do it, but IMO its a big no-no. Please have your dogs spayed and neutered before they do anything. They don't know they are brother/sister when she's in heat!

Experienced breeders may do a line breeding of half brother/sister but they know what they are doing and know the pedigree, lines too.
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Breeding isn't a simple as just puting two animals together and leting them do their thing. Geneticaly speaking there are 3 different types of breeding.

Outbreeding/Outcrossing: this is the most common type of breeding that is done and is basicaly breeding two animals that have no relation to eachother.

Linebreeding: Most of the best dogs come out of this meathod IMO, but it does require a great deal of knowledge in genetics, animal breeding, and the lineage of the line(s) that your breeding. This involves breeding dogs with similar lineage that aren't direct relatives, usualy cousins or something similar to that.

Inbreeding: Only the most experienced breeders should even consider this, if you don't know every single dog in the pedigree of the dogs to be bred, then don't even attempt to use this meathod. Inbreeding is breeding 2 direct realtive together, father-daugther, mother-son, brother-sister. Inbreeding is used to solidify a certain quality in a line. When it is done it's most comonly father-daughter, sometimes mother-son, and almost never brother-sister. Inbreeding can be very dangerous to the prospective pups and the female. Because of the genetic simialrities of the male and female, there is a high incidence of genetic mutaions in the pups, even resulting in things like the pups having 5 legs which will almost gaurentee that the female will have complications during the pregnancy and birthing.

If you don't want to breed your dogs, and you don't want your female to have saggy breast, then get your dogs fixed. There are many health benifits to having your dogs fixed and you'll have peace of mind knowing your dogs won't be running around trying to hump every dog they see
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