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Why are you the only one upset here then? Facts are facts. All the other participants seem to accept that selective breeding is integral to all forms of agriculture and horticulture.

I consider his posts like the NZHS equivalent of click bait. One fact per twelve pages, sensationalist and appealing to people who don't know better.

Don't worry though, we know he's just here for...

You're dead right tussock, that's why people breed less closely today in livestock than ever before. The maths allows us to not go drastically close. Pick up a cattle breeding book from the 30s,...

cmore I wouldn't worry about your pups COI, you have some good options to lower that here. You even have the option of outcrosses here if you chose to.

It's not new at all. We have been selecting animals to breed to produce better animals for thousands of years, and the methods haven't changed much.

Do you think they were made by accident?

Regardless of how your emotion clouds your reasoning, the simple fact is that nobody reading this post would be alive today without the advances in animal husbandry and selective breeding that...

GSP follower inbred to the average dog breeder means something quite different to a geneticist. I recalled one of NZs top geneticists, also a pointer man, tell me he wouldnt consider it an inbred...

I like how everything you put in the dog section (or economics, nutrition, Kung fu, farming) includes the qualifier 'look, I'm a geologist' :)

Good point - the pointer has been bred this way for hundreds of years and remains robust. Try it with labs!

Both of those books are worth a read on a rainy Sunday. However as you mention his...

Good on you, I think the sole reason it doesn't happen more here is that breeders are too afraid of what others think, with all the emotional attachment to the word 'inbreeding'. With the knowledge...

So is 'therefore', or 'and so'. Way to many characters for a one thumb phone typist!

A study of any sucessful long term breeding plan in pointers and setters worldwide contains degrees of inbreeding. I think how much is a cultural thing. The Aussie pointer and setter folk don't think...