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[apis96]

What will happen if the rabbits are bred from their own family?eg:male rabbit and female rabbit from the same parents are married,what will happen to the babies of the rabbits??

 

[Becca]

The babies will have ALOT of problems, its like human's if someone had a baby with their brother it would not be good there would be no end of genetic problems! Not reccomennded! Why do you ask? Were you planning to breed siblings?
And also this belongs in the Rabbitry Section I'll PM a mod to move it for you. x

 

[apis96]

kk...thx for the advice

 

[irishbunny]

You probably wouldn't want to breed them, it's too risky, were you planning on doing it?

 

[irishlops]

please dont!1!!111
it happened to me!
all the babies died 12hrs later.
and lots of helath problems geneticly carried on.
please dont.

 

[mouse_chalk]

I moved this to the Rabbitry forum so that our breeders can help you out with this

 

[Bramblerose]

Well quite frankly, most likely nothing will happen. There was a study done where they did sibling(brotherxsister) crosses for 18 generations before starting to have problems. Rabbits can handle quite a bit of tight inbreeding, although I personally do not like full sibling crosses because you tend to get very good rabbits or very poor rabbits quality wise. Every domestic breed of animals has been created using inbreeding and linebreeding, its practiced by many many breeders, as its the quickest way to fix traits. Also a great deal of inbreeding goes on in the wild, for instance all cheetahs are so closely related that you can do organ transplants or blood tranfusions from any cheetah in the world to another cheetah. Sadly that also means their at a genetic bottleneck.

But what you have to ask yourself is why am I inbreeding? Are the rabbits exceptional quality rabbits that your trying to set certain traits? Or are you just going to cross these rabbits because its all that you have? Thats not a good reason to inbreed, because you'll be doubling up on the bad as well as the good qualities, and the bad may be more dominate. You can do it, but you need excellant stock, a plan and a goal for the future. If thats not the case don't do it.

 

[apis96]

if sibling marry they will get a genetic problem??owh..

 

[apis96]

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

I'm confused on what you mean by the word "marry"??

 

[apis96]

marry= female+male=got baby ......im just asking can sibling marry or not...im not planning to do it

 

[Erins Rabbits]

Yes, they can breed without any problems... Problems with inbreeding are a general myth from my understanding. I have a rabbit out of two littermates that has done well and produced good things for me.

Irishlops, if you breed ANY rabbits this can happen. It probably had very little to do with the fact that they were inbred.