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To: Scott Bergquist who wrote (16855)3/30/2004 4:45:18 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
I have a horse that is in-bred, line-bred and incest bred over 37 times to descendants of this horse.

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By breeding back to this horse one hopes to get his good traits and eliminate his bad traits which fortunately were not too numerous. At no time is a planned breeding to focus on a certain trait considered a mutation. Most of the descendants have wide-foreheads, short ears, a dished nose, large flat knees, short cannon bones, large hock joints and sometimes straight legs. The original desert horse was only 14.2 hands high while some of his descendants are close to 16 hands high and have long weak backs. The end of it is there is no over-all benefit for a planned breeding program and only a few of his tens of thousands of descendants exceed him in stamina.