State the disadva

Inbreeding is the mating of animals that are closely related for example parents and their offsprings, full brothers and sisters or half brother and sisters.

Disadvantages:

• It decreases the fertility and even, productivity of an animal.

• Continuous inbreeding among cattle causes inbreading depression.

• Most animals carry undesirable genes and inbreeding further magnifies this.

• Inbreeding reduce rate of growth and size of the animals.

Overcome:

It can be overcome by applying outbreeding, in which mating is done between different breeds or individuals having no common ancestors.