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linebreeding is when two horses are bred with each other that are “related” within two generations. This causes the neg impact on all foals produced and future generations of those horses. Once a horse has the line breeding gene, it’s passed on to all future offspring though it might become passive. Even if it is passive most people consider those horses to be worthless.
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Linebred = inbred within a few generations, so the same horse appears in both parent lineages - for instance, the sire of the linebred horse is also in the dam's lineage a generation back.
So all you need to do is check that your horses aren't related to each other. I think eventually you can get away with repeats in the lineage if there's enough generations between them, but it's easiest to just avoid it entirely.
Since I'm working with rares and don't have a lot of options, I just have a system where every horse gets a letter code corresponding to the foundations (or horses I crossbred out to) in its lineage so I can tell at a glance if I can breed two horses together. Might not work well with a really diverse group of horses, but it's working so far.
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Selcouth
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1569 days ago
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Linebred means that the horses are very closely related. Sire-daughter breeding, dam-son breeding, etc. I believe in order to avoid the negative linebred DNA, the lines have to be at least 2-3 generations apart.
So, if I wanted to cross lines between * Ruby Shelby with Legendary Stars, I would have to wait until they produced foals of their own with other horses and then cross the lines as they would otherwise be too closely related.
Ruby's sire, Cillian Murphy, is a half sibling to Legendary Stars through WhenTheStarsAlign. So, if I wanted to mash their bloodlines together (which I wouldn't TBH), I'd have to have them produce other horses first, and then cross their lines together.
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Awesome thanks guys !!
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That was well explained, Val.
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