Pigeons are born into a pair. Are they born to be inbred?

Abstract: animals generally avoid next-of-kin marriage. Why are they made for each other?

Pigeons are emotionally single-minded birds, and once they choose a mate, they will be single-minded and inseparable. If you are unlucky to lose a spouse, it will take a long time to mate again, so how to pair the pigeon and improve the quality of the pigeon is particularly important.

First of all, pigeons are not born together, but they are more likely to be a male and a female.

Pigeons usually start hatching after laying two eggs in a litter, so there are three combinations of two eggs, one male and one female, and two males and two females. Well, the probability that each egg is male or female is 1 stroke 2, and the probability of two males and two females is 1 stroke 4, while the probability of one male and one female is 1 stroke 2, so the probability of one male and one female in a litter of eggs is very high, which is quite common. Although it is rare for two males and two females, this situation still exists, so pigeons are not born together.

Can pigeons be inbred? The answer is yes, but it is not recommended.

As long as two pigeons, a male and a female, can breed together, so can close relatives like brothers and sisters. However, as we all know, inbreeding is not good, mainly because inbreeding will homozygous bad genes, compared with the low immunity of hybrids, it is easy to get sick, deformed, and even cause population decline. Hybrid reproduction can complement the advantages and disadvantages of both sexes, through complementary quality to eliminate defects, will produce higher quality pigeons, eliminate defective pigeons.

Choose inbreeding or hybridization according to your own needs.

Just as hybrids inherit the advantages of both parents and become better-looking, so hybrid pigeons are generally of better quality and are more suitable for participating in pigeon racing and selecting better breeding pigeons. Generally, we first observe the characteristics of our pigeons and find out that they lack what is purposeful to make up for, and choose pigeons with complementary characteristics to pair, so that we have a much better chance of getting pigeons of desired quality.

Some varieties of pigeons are award-winning pigeon king or very valuable breeds. In order to ensure the purity of the bloodline and pass on the excellent and unique quality of this breed, inbreeding will be selected for purification. And some pigeons are edible meat pigeons, this can not consider inbreeding or cross breeding, which breeding method is better to get high-quality meat pigeons, which kind of breeding method.

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