Brother sister mating?

[Hob&Jill 258]

Hello. I am looking to breed my best hob this year as he is a really good ferret, literally from his very first outing at 20 weeks he has been the best out of my ferrets and most of my mates. Ive only got 2 Jills and one isnt great but the other jill, his sister, who although started slow is starting to come good. I didnt breed them but used to own the mum. I would have had some kits this year from the same breeding but the mum jill has died. So I definitly want a couple of kits from him but not is they are going to be short arms and banjo's! Has anyone bred brother sister ferrets? how did they turn out? or is it just too close to breed from? atb, H&J

 

they will be fine mate like they would in the wild but do not think that because the mother and father are good the young will to does not work like that if it di no m=one would have good and bad ferrets

 

 

Yeah I know that but you've got to start somewhere. May as well breed the best to the best where possible

 

atb,

 

H&J

 

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Edited December 31, 2009 by Hob&Jill

[Brimmer 220]

I'd personally look towards getting outside blood in to breed, something seems a bit wrong with the billy bob thing.

Sure the odd generation won't take any harm to be honest, but i'm sure problems would crop up after a few generations of line breeding.

You know they have gone wrong though when they start playing the banjo and wearing dungerees.

[romany52 313]

I'd personally look towards getting outside blood in to breed, something seems a bit wrong with the billy bob thing.

Sure the odd generation won't take any harm to be honest, but i'm sure problems would crop up after a few generations of line breeding.

You know they have gone wrong though when they start playing the banjo and wearing dungerees.

 

 

I once read about some geneticist inbreeding rats for 13 generations, with no ill effects whatsoever. If you want to fix type or anything else, which is genetic, it's the way to do it.

[fensaluki 35]

Go for it mate....me and my sister did and liitle billy has turned out ok.

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry just couldn't resist.

 

Happy new year to all I hope its a good en

 

ATB

[max abell 196]

Wouldnt breed brother and sister together personaly but a mate of mine did a few years ago

and the kitts were fine and worked well so its your personal choice mate good luck with it if you go ahead

[comanche 3,076]

Breeding closely related stock is asking for trouble in the long run because not just every good quality but every bad quality will become exagerated.

Its easy to see a fine built animal and appreciate its tameness and superb hunting ability whilst fogetting that genetics also affect every other aspect of its brain and body . Not just the bits you can see.

 

Who was that footballer ?. Fit ,handsome young fellow . Turned out he had a hole in the heart ,probably genetic . Did'nt show from the outside . Spose he'd married his sister . Twice as likely that the kids would have had dickie tickers .

That's a very simplistic example I appologise for it but it indicates one reason that close matings should be undertalken only with care and good reason .

Carefull use of related stock has produced many fine individual animals and many completely new breeds of livestock but breeding bro and sis just because there are no alternatives is'nt good stockmanship.

 

As to the arguement that it must happen a lot in the wild . No its not likely that it happens very often in the wild . Litters break-up long before they reach breeding condition . They squabble ,they wander . A young female is more likely to be taken by an established, strong, mature ,territorial male than her inexperienced little brother .

Another case in point is that of the Iberian lynx . A rare animal . Made rarer by the fact that conservationists have little unrelated stock to work with . No kitten is allowed to die even though in the wild at least half of them would be eaten by each other while still in the nest !

Artificial breeding programes using these inbreds has done nothing but produce weak creatures that are both poor hunters and increasingly infertile .

[droid 11]

At last.

 

Someone speaking sense.