Inbreeding

[Officially Retired]

Thank you jack that's all I was asking .

You're welcome, but I had already provided my answer

I was taught that grand parents to grand kids was line breeding that's all.

Now you're asking a new question: whether grandparent-to-grandkid was linebreeding, where before you had said cousin-to-cousin.

Grandparent-to-grandkid is a form of linebreeding, sure, though I don't think it is a true inbreeding as it is not as intensive as father/daughter or mother/son.

If I had a question I thought might be perceived as second guessing or disrespectful , I would have ask you in private message . I'm not looking for trouble just a little clairity .

I am sorry if I implied that you were looking for trouble, as I sure didn't think you were! Nor do I think you were being disrespectful (and I didn't mean to be either!).

You just asked a question, and I gave you my answer, and then you essentially re-asked the question again

If you think cousin-to-cousin isn't inbreeding, and I do, then we simply disagree. Tell you what: go to your local Justice of the Peace and try to marry your cousin, and they will call it "inbreeding." In some places it's legal, in most places it is not, but in all places it is considered "inbreeding" ... as at least 50% of your genetic make-up is the same

Now you're asking a new question, about grandparent-to-grandchild, which is perfectly fine. Here I am not quite so sure, actually, and I would agree with you that this is more "linebreeding" than inbreeding. Inbreeding has to do with direct offspring, siblings, or cousins IMO. The further you get away from that directness, the further away from inbreeding you are. Your grandmother didn't whelp you, and none of her direct siblings did either. You and she are only 1/4 the same blood, 3/4 different blood.

Inbreedings, to my way of thinking, have at least 50% the same blood or (in the cases of brother/sister) more than that.

Jack