Rex X NZ? Will this work out at all?

[Cuttlefishherder]

The standard, full-sized Rex (as apposed to the Mini Rex) is supposed to have commercial type, being a dual-purpose breed (meat and fur). You might get a slightly better dress-out from a Rex/NZ cross (hybrid vigor and all that), but a good Rex won't be far off from the meaty ideal of the commercial breeds. Since the gene causing the Rex coat is recessive, you wouldn't get Rex-coated offspring in the first generation of this cross. If you bred two of the F1 generation together, or saved a doe and bred her back to her Rex sire, you should get Rex coats in the next generation.

So then keep a girl and breed her with daddy? For lovely rex coats we could do that, but would the inbreeding hurt the offspring? We don't want two headed mutant babies hopping around lol!

And on cuttlefish herding, you must gain their trust and become pod favorite, then you have a loyal herd of cuttlefish.

 

[Hooligan Farm]

The standard, full-sized Rex (as apposed to the Mini Rex) is supposed to have commercial type, being a dual-purpose breed (meat and fur). You might get a slightly better dress-out from a Rex/NZ cross (hybrid vigor and all that), but a good Rex won't be far off from the meaty ideal of the commercial breeds. Since the gene causing the Rex coat is recessive, you wouldn't get Rex-coated offspring in the first generation of this cross. If you bred two of the F1 generation together, or saved a doe and bred her back to her Rex sire, you should get Rex coats in the next generation.

So then keep a girl and breed her with daddy? For lovely rex coats we could do that, but would the inbreeding hurt the offspring? We don't want two headed mutant babies hopping around lol!

And on cuttlefish herding, you must gain their trust and become pod favorite, then you have a loyal herd of cuttlefish.

Possible but unlikely. Just don't do brother and sister

 

[Bossroo]

When I worked at UCD, we needed animals that were as close to a clone as possible. I took a line of inbred mice and then bred bother x sister, mother x son, father x daughter for 27 generations with no ill effects whatsoever. Did similar breedings in rats, guiney pigs, chickens and rabbits with no problems.

 

[Cuttlefishherder]

When I worked at UCD, we needed animals that were as close to a clone as possible. I took a line of inbred mice and then bred bother x sister, mother x son, father x daughter for 27 generations with no ill effects whatsoever. Did similar breedings in rats, guiney pigs, chickens and rabbits with no problems.

Oh wow, so I guess we'll worry less then! That must have been a cool job...

 

[Hooligan Farm]

When I worked at UCD, we needed animals that were as close to a clone as possible. I took a line of inbred mice and then bred bother x sister, mother x son, father x daughter for 27 generations with no ill effects whatsoever. Did similar breedings in rats, guiney pigs, chickens and rabbits with no problems.

Wow, when I had show dogs and bloodline crossed at like great grandfather we had some strange pups. But I'm planning on line breeding to get the fur (or should I say my 13yr old son is, he wrote his business plan with little sis....I'm so proud of them )

 

[Bossroo]

Years ago we got a 7 years old female Boxer with AKC papers for our kids as the owners were moving clean accross the country. I found her breeders lived 30 miles away from us. They bred Boxers and had top show champion dogs. We bred her to her grandfather ( himslf line bred to his grandfather) 3 times before she was hit by a car and had to be put down. Had 5 pups per litter , all healthy... she produced 4 champions for us. most of the females were sold to breeders.

 

[CrimsonRose]

line breeding usually has no ill effects if dealing with healthy animals... but if you have a bad genetic trait and keep line breeding that bad trait may get worse with each breeding... But as long as you don't breed 2 animals with the same unhealthy or bad trait you should be perfectly fine...

 

[therealsilkiechick]

u can breed father to daughter, mother to son and half brother/sisters but not brother sister from same litter. if u if really needed to u can breed brother/sister from same litter once and out cross their babies after that to unrelated to line breed but i'd not inbreed and keep inbreeding anything closer than that or more often it will cause problems if done to much.

 

[johny2hats]

does this really matter if you are goin to eat them