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Linebreeding / Inbreeding is absolutely necessary. There is no argument there. It is the only way to produce anything consistent at all.

My point goes back to talking about gamefowl. One possible side effect of TOO much inbreeding is inbred depression. In gamefowl, gamedogs, they will do battlecrosses. These crosses of two totally unrelated linebred dogs often produce your legendary performers. This may not produce brood stock, but it sure makes some workers.

Does it produce this same effect in coondogs? I am no expert on the subject. I just wanted to see it discussed.

Do the tightly bred Greyhounds and racehorses consistently win? I think we could learn alot from these two communities.

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Yes inbreeding depression can happen with any breed. The thing is our coon dogs are typically much less inbreed than most other breeds of dogs. You can keep inbreeding depression and other inbreeding issues to a minimum by maintaining inbreeding coeffecient below 0.20. There is quite a bit of research to back that up.

You can not really compare grey hounds and horses to coon dogs. Grey hounds and horses are simply breed to run. Coon hounds hunting to the level most demand is much more complicated than a racing animal.

You are simply comparing orange and apples.

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Yes inbreeding depression can happen with any breed. The thing is our coon dogs are typically much less inbreed than most other breeds of dogs. You can keep inbreeding depression and other inbreeding issues to a minimum by maintaining inbreeding coeffecient below 0.20. There is quite a bit of research to back that up.

You can not really compare grey hounds and horses to coon dogs. Grey hounds and horses are simply breed to run. Coon hounds hunting to the level most demand is much more complicated than a racing animal.

You are simply comparing orange and apples.

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Bill,

If it makes ya feel better ... how about apples and avocadoes.

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