Interbreeding goats

[taylohol11]

This is our goat family treeCan the little kid Jasper breed with...
-His sisters?
-His half auntie?? (Amelia)
-Any kids that come from his dad??? (dodger)

any help would be great

 

[Bunnylady]

Inbreeding (or to use a less offensive term, line breeding) is done for a variety of reasons. Because the available gene pool is small, any trait (whether good or bad) that the parents have in common is more likely to come out in the offspring. You don't automatically get two-headed kids that are too stupid to scratch their own ears and have all their hair fall out at age 2 when you breed brother to sister (I'm exaggerating, of course).

You can actually get some really good results from breeding related animals together, but you must have animals with really great genes to begin with. Say, for example, that you are trying to improve milk production in your herd, and you bring in a buck from a line of good milkers. His daughters will probably produce more milk than their mothers. Breed a doe back to her father, and the daughter's daughters may do better still. Some people aren't comfortable with crossing offspring back to a parent, but are fine with the idea of breeding half-siblings together. How closely you are willing to breed depends on your comfort level, and how ruthless you are willing to be when it comes to selecting what to keep.

Breeding animals that are as unrelated as possible decreases the likelihood of something bad being inherited from both parents, but it doesn't guarantee that it won't happen. For example, humans generally pair randomly (there are laws that restrict how close a relative you can marry, after all) and yet, many, many children are born each year that have genetic diseases like Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle-cell Anemia. On the other hand, if you are trying to "fix" a trait in a population, breeding animals that are known to have the trait together makes it much more likely to have it in the offspring, whether or not they are related. If you aren't sure that a particular animal has the trait you are looking for, the more closely it is related to animals that do have the trait, the higher the likelihood that it inherited the trait, too.

As for your particular goat herd - I would say that you do have animals that are far enough removed from Jasper to feel reasonably safe about breeding to him, if you choose to. I think the real question ought to be Jasper himself - what traits does he have that make him valuable as a breeding animal? If his mother out-produces the other does, his daughters might do the same. If he just has a better personality than his father, that may or may not get passed to his offspring - it's hard to say.