Question

What is the significance or advantage of outcrossing?

Answer 1

The advantages of out-crossing are:

1. A single outcross helps to overcome inbreeding depression.

2. For animals that are below average in productivity and growth gets benefitted from this type of crossing.

3. It increases the health of the stock, especially when one or both of the parents to be used are strongly inbred

4. It gives a wider genetic pool

5. It reduces the probability of a foal's inheriting two copies of an undesirable recessive gene.