15. Breeding Program Design Principles
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Objectives to target: This relates to asking ‘Where to go?’, whereas Tools and Strategies below relate to ‘How to get there?’ Breeding objectives describe the type of animal that we might want to develop, or, more commonly, describe the utility of marginal genetic changes in each trait of commercial value. However, there is increasing concern about loss of genetic diversity, both within and between breeds, and this needs to be accommodated in our objectives and breeding methods.
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