Re: Common ancestry?


"Jim Casey" <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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jsaranac wrote:

... has some common ancestors on both Mom and Pop's side. It starts
with some common ancestry between great grandparents on Dads side and
great great grandparents on the dam side and gets more common from
there. Is this pretty typical in the horse world, or should I worry?

Normal. Actually less crossing than normal. There are no crosses until
the fifth generation back. You and I are most likely more "inbred" than
that.

The supposed horrors of inbreeding are exaggerated, anyway. It's a
problem only in families that have recessive bad genes.

- Jim

Whew! A relief. Thanks, Jim.



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