Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2010 / Ivy & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
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--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on April 06, 2010, 15:28 ---You are very welcome, besides, that's what this forum is really all about :)
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Last year, TPC, I also asked the question of hurting the gene pool with inbreeding. You gave a very indepth reply that allayed all my fears about this issue. I'll go back and try to find it, and with your permission, I'd like to post it's reference here. :-\
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Feel free - probably easiest to just click on the subject line of the post and then post the URL here, that way folks can jump right to the location in the archives. Saves you having to try to cut and paste ...
bccs:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on April 06, 2010, 15:28 ---You are very welcome, besides, that's what this forum is really all about :)
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Last year, TPC, I also asked the question of hurting the gene pool with inbreeding. You gave a very indepth reply that allayed all my fears about this issue. I'll go back and try to find it, and with your permission, I'd like to post it's reference here. :-\
The Peregrine Chick:
You are very welcome, besides, that's what this forum is really all about :)
jadoo:
...hadn't thought of it that way, TPC, I was just concerned about too much inbreeding, but it looks like that's covered, at least for now. Thanks for pointing out another perspective...
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: jadoo on April 06, 2010, 13:33 ---...wouldn't it be better for a new bloodline to come in and mingle? Wouldn't that keep the future hatchings fresh and strong?
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--- Quote from: Kinderchick on April 06, 2010, 13:39 ---I was actually thinking the same thing, jadoo.
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We have new bloodlines pretty regularly - Maud the original Radisson female was from the Multifoods Tower in Minneapolis, the second Radisson female was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Princess is from the NSP Riverside Plant in Minneapolis and is unrelated to Maud's family, Holly out in Brandon was from Grand Forks, North Dakota, Mufasa the original Brandon Male was a captive bred bird from CWS, Pop, the original Radisson male was another captive-bred male from CWS, Burnsie was a CWS captive-bred female - these make up almost all of our breeding birds in Manitoba since the beginning of our project and genetic lineages unrelated to one another. And our line is strong, based on the number of chicks having chicks elsewhere ... stronger now than we have ever had in fact!!
Where its advantageous is that we are not on the peregrine flyway, it would be very easy for us to loose all our breeding pairs the way it has happened in Saskatchewan. Without a bird attached to a territory up here, there is no reason why the bird wouldn't choose a location further south - shorter distance for migration and lots more birds and nest sites to choose from. We are basically the last stop before the bunker on the rocket range outside of the town of Churchill. So having birds tied to our location, means that there is a kind of anchor to drag birds back here to nest and which works as an anchor for movement west - to Brandon, then to the new site west of Brandon and off into Saskatchewan (our birds nested in Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and Regina - and more recently in Saskatoon again).
Given the alternative of empty skies over Manitoba, yes, I would prefer to maintain our little family tree here with Ivy this year if Trey isn't going to return ...
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