Inbreeding Coefficients?

Two articles relating to Border Collies:

http://www.bcdb.info/article1/WSN1c4.htm (Complete mathematical discussion by a statistician and examples)

More of an overview with a simplifed formula: http://www.bordercollies.nl/egenpop.shtml

One of my favorite online articles of the technical difference of the semantic term (as opposed to scientific term) "inbreeding" versus "line breeding" - a controversial topic. http://www.dobermanns.info/info/PEDIGREE%20.htm 

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More of an overview with a simplifed formula: http://www.bordercollies.nl/egenpop.shtml

     Becca - THANKS    All those articles were an awesome read, but the above quoted one was exactly what I'd been looking for! I needed to have it spelled out in very s-i-m-p-l-e terms, my mind tends to shut down with formulations and any other mathematical endeavor, lol. Now, off to go calculate inbreeding coefficients ... wish me luck, lol

I guess I am lazy, I let my program calculate it for me. Maybe I will check those out and try to learn though. 

One way doing it for yourself can be an improvement - if you are getting a higher figure, if you are doing it yourself you'll have a good idea immediately of which lines are getting concentrated, through which dogs, and whether that is a good thing!  In other words, the computer can only tell you numbers, while you can tell yourself, "okay, that's another instance of this dog, but there's an outcross right there too that's known for its good qualities."

For instance, "Cappishness" is hard to get away from in BCs.  But if you go through lines that also include certain other dogs, the Cap effect is well balanced.  This is how Border Collie working lines keep their trademark working style, but also keep a healthy variety available to different types of handlers, from people who use Border Collies to wrangle swine, to people who work the flightiest, gentlest sheep.