Practical Color Genetics for Livestock Breeders

Practical Color Genetics for Livestock Breeders: Your Breeding Strategy Guide

This book is an essential guide for animal breeders on the biology behind coat color in large animals. Since coat color is one of the fundamental elements of breeding, this book directs breeders on how to implement breeding strategies to achieve desired results for showing purposes and for industry use, such as in sheep and alpaca wool.

Key Features

• Breeding Strategy Implementation: The guide directs breeders on how to implement breeding strategies to achieve desired coat color results.
• Complex Genetics Explained: It simplifies the complicated biology of coat color, where many dominant and recessive traits interact to produce the base coat color.
• Genotype vs. Phenotype: The book explains why the phenotype (visual appearance) does not always reflect the underlying genotype and how to manage the interaction of alleles.
• Industry Relevance: The content is crucial for breeders concerned with showing purposes and fiber industry use (e.g., sheep and alpaca wool).
• Practical Focus: This book provides a practical, necessary guide to mastering coat color genetics alongside health and conformation goals.