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Inbreeding
coefficient

Wright's coefficient, F, for a pairing. Pick how the two birds are related and see what the chicks inherit, plus the cumulative effect of repeating it.

F is the probability that a chick receives two identical copies of the same ancestral gene. The app computes it from your real pedigree; this estimates it from a stated relationship.

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Scale runs to 50%, the theoretical ceiling for repeated full-sibling mating.

What rises with F
Infertile eggs
Dead-in-shell
Chick vigour
Recessive faults surfacing
Reading the number

Line-breeding is deliberate. Inbreeding is what happens by accident.

A single cousin pairing to fix a mutation is a normal tool, used knowingly and then outcrossed away from. The damage comes from a closed collection where nobody tracked who came from whom, and F climbed a few points every season for a decade.

Keeping a pedigree is what makes the difference, because you cannot see F by looking at a bird.

The bands
Outcross0%
Low: safeunder 6.25%
Moderate: watch diversity6.25 to 12.5%
High: line-breeding12.5 to 25%
Very high: avoid25% and over

Mutation outcomes for the same pairing are on the mutation pairing calculator.

Get F from your own pedigree instead of a stated relationship.

See genetics in the app