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RE: [RC] Arabian Bloodlines - heidiFrank, you have to have the whole package. You have to have the
root ancestors with the capabilities to start with. That includes
the female line--the mtDNA is inherited intact through the dam line,
for one thing. And then you have to have maintained the integrity
of those early ancestors by continuing to select for the traits for
which those ancestors were valued in the first place. And FWIW,
you can improve the quality without altering the type, ie without
losing the traits you valued in the first place.
And that latter part is indeed what is going on in program after
program in this country--but you won't find any of us in the glossies,
because they value the alterations rather than the preservation of
those traits that made those ancestors what they were.
The whole jist of preservation breeding is the preservation of
traits. Unfortunately, the term has been picked up by people who
only "preserve" names on paper. If you haven't brought the traits
along with the names, you haven't preserved a thing.
Heidi
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