Welsh Cob people....

I dont, but that would potentially cause huge Genetic mutations and i pretty sure it is illegal. Its inbreeding, but like if a human brother or sister were to "mate" so to speak! Outcome could be disasterous, I really wouldnt!! (Do genetics as part of my course at Uni!)
 
it would only be a problem if there were genetic traits in the line which could cause problems, I don't think its a case of spontaneous mutation. Shouldn't think its illegal, undesirable basically due to concentrating similar genes but I doubt would cause any immediate problems over a single generation.

no worse than would/could/does happen with free roaming ponies anyway but it would be unwise intentionally.
 
My olf NF Grandad on one side was his great Grandad on the other.

He had a bent penis and nipples and general hormone issues (esp in the spring). It is a REALLY bad idea. That stud never did it again.
 
It is definately not illegal, you can do what you want where animal breeding is concerned. Breeders call it line breeding, but in-breeding is a good way to describe it. It is obviously not a good idea, but it does happen. I recently wanted a whippet puppy. I was horrified by some of the pedigree's I saw, where the same dog had been used over and over, on his own daughters and grandaughters. I can cause all sorts of problems.
 
Inbreeding happens a lot with Section Ds - never heard of a case as closely related as brother and sister but very few Sec Ds won't have an ancestors that appear more than once in a 5 generation pedigree.

My old boy's Grandad (a very successful Sec D and prolific breeder) appeared 4 times (twice on each side) in his 5 generation pedigree and another (again a very good horse) appeared 3 times. He was slightly bonkers in a good fun way (if he was human he would have been Vic Reeves rather than Gazza) but never had a day's illness other than mild sweet itch (v common in Sec D's and that's probably due to the in-breeding) until his one and only bout of colic aged 27 that saw him off. He had a touch of arthirits but he was 24 when it first manifested itself was still only semi-retired when he died.

Strangely the one thing that cost him in showing classes was that he was quite small at only just 14hh but both the stallions that appear repeatedly in his pedigree were much bigger!
 
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Interesting - i have a colt that has siblings as parents - he's perfect to look at and has an amazing nature - just wondered if anyone else has been in this situation. He's for showing and couldn't wish for a more stunning colt..just was shocked by the close breeding.
 
inbreeding/line breeding happens a lot with most pedigree animals. in doing so you increase the desirable traits as well as any undesirables, so it depends on the proportion of each.

I would doubt that the relatedness of grandad/great grandad to galaxy's NF was of any signficance in that case.
 
I have a welsh cob who's parents are full brother and sister. I have tried to find out if she was an "accident" as I have never found another deliberatly bred like this. She is a lovely girl and if she was an accident I'm glad it happened!
However she does have sarcoids and I have tried to find out if the in-breeding could be a factor to this or not, but no-one seems to know for sure.
Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions.
 
one of my welshies has half brother and sister as parents (they both have the same sire) - this is really common though. wouldn't recommend full brother and sister breeding but it wouldn't stop me buying the offspring if it did happen.
 
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