Breeding relations

[Breeder]

I know that mating (for example) a father with his daughter will follow to some genetic problems. But in what relations i can mate some canaries? A female canarie with her cousin maybe? I'm trying bringing other genes from pet stores (change genes each other) and doing it fine with my other species but i tired of that thing. Is there any relation that i can mate?

[Breeder]

I have another one. If a male and a female mate and produce 1 male baby for example (just doing expirements now). If the male (father) changed with other male that i brought and mate with the female (mother) and produce 1 female baby, can this female baby mate with the male baby (when they grow up of course)? They will have the same mother but different father. Is this able to do, or they are going to be genetic problems again?

[Jan]

The utmost ideal situation is NOT to let any related birds produce babies, period! This goes for mother/son; father/daughter; sister/brother; cousins... none... should be paired to produce. It just is never as pure of a bloodline. Still an answer to your question to your second post ... no - again those babies would be related because they share the same mother even though they would have different fathers.

Unfortunately people out there do pair up birds who are closely related or even a slight distant related and if you can keep bloodlines as pure as can be... all the better!!

[rainefeather19128]

just wondering,why is it ok to breed back lines in cows and stuff(father to daughter) and get good lines and yet to breed birds like that would be disasterous?(please don't attack me for asking, i just want to know.)

[magdalena]

I'm not sure a responsible breeder will ever linebreed a direct father to daughter match, linebreeding ('inbreeding that works' I've heard it said) is usually a little more distant and used to preserve desirable traits. Unless you are starting off with a small gene pool (like with miniature donkeys according to google) and have to inbreed it's best not to do it period.

[Breeder]

Yeah, i understand. And there is that other proplem that when you get your first pair, you don't know if they are related. In most conditions, the breeders usually selling brothers/sisters and don't give a "clean" pair ready for breeding. How do you do this DNA examination?

[magdalena]

If you go to a reputable breeder you can buy a 'proven' unrelated pair as well as babies who are unrelated and dna sexed (by eggshell, blood or feather samples). You can't tell by dna if a pair is related I don't think.