Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
...to start reading this article from the beginning please click on here...This is often seen when Other signs of inbreeding depression are small litter sizes or difficulty producing or rearing young. Bitches from families that consistently produce small litters may be suffering inbreeding depression. Specific with lines of the APBT signs of inbreeding depression dog is indifferent to bitches in standing heat, incapable of mounting and successfully completing ties (hop off after a couple humps), bitches that require physically restrained, bitches that kill or damage puppies through intent or neglect and signify that this animal should not be bred. breeders walk a tightrope between needing to reduce genetic variation to maintain uniform breed type and needing to maintain genetic diversity to avoid inbreeding depression. One of the most pervasive causes for inbreeding depression and decrease in genetic diversity is brought on voluntarily by breeders who continually breed the favored sires out to everyone that asks, while the majority of potential breeding males are never bred. The sire may not be of exceptional quality in all aspects or may be of exceptional quality. This bottleneck is made all the worse by the fact that the majority of breeding bitches are often sired by other popular studs from previous generations. It is possible to prevent this deterioration in health and vigor by limiting linebreeding and by selecting rigorously for highly fertile, vigorous, long lived, mentally stable animals. Responsible, intelligent dog breeders do just that. Only breed the best to the best and cull the rest....to continue reading this article please click on here...
