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line breeding

noun

  1. selective inbreeding that produces individuals possessing one or more of the favourable characteristics of their common ancestor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In line breeding you breed the father to his daughter and the son to his mother.

Line-breeding is the breeding together of dogs of the same general strain, comparable to second or third cousins among people.

By line breeding, we mean breeding the same stock without getting new males.

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