Hello!
I wondered if you could give me some advice on creating a line.
I read that in order to create a line you take the offspring of a pair of rabbits, and breed mother to son and daughter to father. Then you breed the offspring of the mother/son and father/daughter litters together.
Can anyone explain to me what happens after that? I've looked at charts and numbers but I couldn't understand them.
Also, I'm trying to decide which rabbits to start my new line with...
I have a false dwarf doe and a true dwarf buck that are completely unrelated that I have already bred and have kept one buck and one doe from that litter.
Would it be better to start off my line this way or is it better if I start it off with father/daughter as the first generation?
I ask this because the daughter has much better traits than the mother.
Thank you for your time.
I wondered if you could give me some advice on creating a line.
I read that in order to create a line you take the offspring of a pair of rabbits, and breed mother to son and daughter to father. Then you breed the offspring of the mother/son and father/daughter litters together.
Can anyone explain to me what happens after that? I've looked at charts and numbers but I couldn't understand them.
Also, I'm trying to decide which rabbits to start my new line with...
I have a false dwarf doe and a true dwarf buck that are completely unrelated that I have already bred and have kept one buck and one doe from that litter.
Would it be better to start off my line this way or is it better if I start it off with father/daughter as the first generation?
I ask this because the daughter has much better traits than the mother.
Thank you for your time.
:bunnyhop:
