Inbreeding or line breeding?

In smaller populations, the danger of inbreeding always lurks. An important point of attention for breeders. Sometimes breeders want to use line breeding to anchor the good qualities of their mare line. But is that a wise thing to do? And how does line breeding differ from inbreeding?

Read the article here: Inbreeding or linebreeding?

Translation: KWPN-NA – Original author: Mirjam Hommes for KWPN – Published November 2022

Kinship percentages (in Dutch: ‘verwantschapspercentage’) for the KWPN population per breeding direction per November 2020. Look up kinship percentages in the KWPN database. Source: KWPN