Hi, Mikey.
We started breeding our Snubians (F1 Saanen/AN) with our purebred Saanen buck which makes the future kids F2. Is it still possible to do in-line breeding with these F2s? Do you think these F2s will fare better (as far as quality and quantity of milk) than the original F1 Snubians?
I am giving this information out as a public service with no personal gain to myself or business.
A SNUBIAN is a cross between a Saanen buck and a Anglo Nubian doe.One breeds the sannen buck to as many anglo does as possible.
those kids are raised until breeding age.One breeds half brother to half sisters,never breed full brothers to full sisters,only half to half.(line Breeding)
you will now know which does are your superior does,once in milk mode and which does and half brother to continue breeding to create this line of does and these does are the ones you want to continue building your herd with.At this point you can breed these does back to the orginal purebred saanen and breed F2s or use any breed because the goat has to become pregnant to go into milking mode.
Selective line breeding or in-breeding that will build up your milking herd of goats.
This is how we breed the Snubian in North America since the 80s.as crossbreeds at the F1 level for the milk industry.
Hope this makes sense to anyone interested in breeding a decent milk goat.Remember one can only take line breeding so far before it becomes useless and your stocks will suffer.
Line Breeding or in-breeding will do to things for your goats 1-produce really good goats or
2-produce really poor goats
its one or the other for in-breeding no inbetween,good or bad only.
The Snubin has been breed in N.America and Europe since the 1980s.
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