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Brackett’s Formula: Nothing Special
Posted on December 18, 2010 | 21 CommentsI established before that Brackett’s formula is a rather non-unique scheme, producing at a minimum a puppy that is 6.25% inbred with the desired ancestor representing 37.5% Blood and a […] -
Brackett’s Formula for Failure
Posted on December 17, 2010 | 55 CommentsLloyd Brackett was an idiot, a sexist, and a bigot who not only put his own breed on the rails to ruination, but who has given countless show breeders an […] -
Reconstructing Wiston
Posted on November 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring. If these offspring are your children which each […] -
Inbred Mistakes V
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 32 CommentsShifting gears from an unrepentant pro-inbreeding propagandist back to fact-checking an otherwise excellent post, I’d like to take my editor’s pen to Christie Keith’s post at Pet Connection called It’s the DNA, […] -
Inbred Mistakes IV
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 29 CommentsAnd now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has […]