HIGH ROLLER Pedigree

you are correct it was from mother to son.

Dan

I was in a similar situation as you last year and bred a son to his mother. This spring she had twins. The buck fawn was born without a rectum and and was having problems breathing, He died the about 15 hours later. The doe fawn lived and is healthy but she is the smallest fawn that I have and shes older than the rest. I myself will never do this again.

Daniel,

I would not breed son and mother on purpose even though it has worked for a couple of folks whether by accident or on purpose. It is just to tight I think.

That said I actually have a doe of breeding age this year who is the product of a former buck of mine called Max Thrust (Now owned by Adam Rowland from MN) breeding his own mother.

That year she missed to the A/I and he was the cleanup buck for her. I kept the fawn because she was decent size and showed no ill affects. However had she shown ANY ill affects the best course of action would have been to COMPLETELY remove her from the gene pool. Not just my own breeding program by selling her, but instead by just putting her in the freezer. An offspring from line breeding with any ill affects should NEVER be sold to anyone as breeding stock.

Those are some of the "hard choices" a line breeder has to make sometimes.

Now that this doe is healthy and of breeding age and not showing any issues she will be breeding to either Updraft or Downdraft who as some know from looking at their pedigree is the product of line breeding. I look forward to crossing this doe with one of those boys since it could result in a "pop" producing a special son.

Not that I know jack (*&& about any of this stuff. It is just my two cents, for free.

R