Is Breeding Closely Related Individuals Harmful?
I can't answer this question, but I have found many, many champions that are the result of close breeding. They are easy to find in the studbooks. The difficult thing would be to find the failures produced by linebreeding and inbreeding.
Many of my examples are horses from some time ago, but I see close breeding being very successful in current champions. One quick example is Michigan's Hart Breaker, who is a incredible driving horse. He was produced by breeding full brother to full sister
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Some very incredible horses have been
produced by breeding closely related horses. The result of this cross is
Bond Dynamo,the father of Rhotens Little Dandy and many other
Champions. They say that Tiny Tim was a dwarf and look at how strongly he is represented in Bond Dynamo. We have Bond Dynamo in many of our horses bloodlines. He is found in Rivenburghs Lets Roll SE, Woodland Acres Bi Dandys Fire Design, I AM the Rose of Sharon, I AM Designs Double Dandy, Lazy R Rhythms Classic Cameo and Lazy Rs Rhythms Angel Eyes. A previously owned stallion, Warrior, also has Bond Dynamo (via Rhotens Little Dandy) in his lines. I love the movement produced by Rhotens Little Dandy!! If a horse has Rhotens Little Dandy in their bloodlines, it has my attention!
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Sids Rebel is one of the most well known Miniature Stallions. He was produced by breeding a half brother to half sister. Again, Sids Rebel has produced incredible horses. We have his blood in our Justine, and was found in Charm, too! As a side note, here it is 2009. Sids is over 20 years old, and he sired 2 foals this year. Recently, I was sent pictures/videos of these babies. Looked very correct!! |
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| And, another example of greatness from breeding half sister to half brother. |
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Another example of close breeding is the
well known
Wittmaacks Mickey Mouse. He was produced by breeding father to
daughter. Wittmaacks is the grandpa of our mare named Morning. |
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| Cross Countrys Call Me Sir was produced by breeding his father, Lazy N Redboy to a daughter of Lazy N Redboy. |
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| This stallion
just took a National Champion at AMHR Nationals 2009 in Open
Pleasure Driving. He did very well in other Pleasure driving
classes. Now, look at his breeding. He was produced by
breeding a half brother to a half sister...and the half
brother was produced with that same high degree of line
breeding. (half brother to half sister). Kewpies Doll's
Oracle is the Great grandpa 3 times out of four!!!
Kewpie Doll's Oracle is the grandsire of Rowdy.
Read the history of the Arenosa horses by clicking here |
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| Now, look back at Rowdy's lines. Rowdy is in many, many miniature lines. To the right is the pedigree for Rowdy as best as I could gather. |
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