BREEDING TRUE TO TYPE AND TRUE TO THE BREED
Tomarctus SA 1
advice on the best possible mating or artificial insemination
possibilities for a specific brood dam after giving consideration to
every available sire within his/her geographic and commercial space.
The over-riding purpose of identifying the best mating of your dam is
because the best mating are most likely to fulfil the potential of
your brood dam and help her produce the very best that she is capable
of producing. Therefore Pedigree Analysis should become a unique
process for a breeder to identify a common pedigree pattern in the
pedigrees of his lines in finding the tread to the majority of world
class Alaskan Malamutes, to establish the same traits in his breeding
program.
By applying pedigree analysis, the breeder will find that the sire and
dams of the better Malamutes had a larger degree of similar genetic
background throughout their pedigree-lines in being an extension to
accepted line-breeding principles. Rather than applying line-breeding
within the three or five generations to individual ancestors, a larger
groups of closely related ancestors further back in the pedigree-lines
can be just as effective. The impact that certain ancestors seems to
lose the further back in the pedigree-lines you go; will offset by the
total volume of closely related ancestors which can still influence
the outcome of a planned mating in current time.
Whether or not it manifested itself in close-up duplications in the
pedigree or through large scale reinforcements further back in the
pedigree, it can be found that this "commonality" or similar genetic
make-up between sire and dam will be the common link between the
pedigree of the majority of top class Alaskan Malamutes from the past,
as this pattern only appeared in the minority of some of these
pedigree-lines.
It would be ideal for this common pedigree pattern analysis to be
conducted for a period of 12 generations, as this will provide the
extent of reinforcement and line-breeding throughout pedigree-lines
for 12 generations.
The common thread in analysing these pedigrees will be the concept of
line-breeding or in-breeding which were applied by others to reduce
the gene pool of a prospective mating and help certain duplicated
ancestors in having a greater influence on the final product of a
mating. Some would have had a particular preferences to sex-balanced
line-breeding or duplication of influential female or male ancestors.
Each of these could have positive influences in a pedigree, linking
prescribed breed structure and compatibility to working performance.
In researching pedigree-lines for 12 generations, will provide
knowledge to the breeder regarding to what extent sex-balanced line-
breeding and line-breeding to female ancestors and/or line-breeding to
male only ancestors have worked best for the breeder at the time. From
these generations of pedigrees, one will be able to gain knowledge in
determining which parts of pedigree-lines, the amount of these
influences and the combinations thereof had the greatest viable
influence on the pedigree-lines at the time. Unfortunately, without a
computerised system, it will have to be done through manual
assessment, illumination and identification.
By analysing and identifying the best possible or available mating for
your dam is to extrapolate it back for 12 generations in profiling her
pedigree and identifying the trait strengths in past generations. Her
pedigree profile should then be checked against the pedigree-lines of
possible sire(s) availability.
The end result would be that you have had the sire which most likely
will fulfil your dam's potential in creating the opportunity to
produce likely specimen of the strongest influences in both pedigree-
lines in providing the opportunity to breed true to type.