Needing guidance on dealing with inbreeding, can anyone help?

[Autisticsrule]

Hey all, my zoo is very small but its doing realy well, and my bison exibit is doing so well the bison are breeding like crazy, despite the frequent battles for dominece between my Huge beefcake herd leader and all the lesser males, the fightings not a problem keeps the herd healthy with only the occasionl injury, but nothing serious. but now i've come to a new problem and that is my females have begun inbreeding, now i'm no vet but i know many reasons why they should be prevented from doing so, but what negative effect does this problem have in the game and how will it effect the offspring from this... but also still how do i prevent this problem from contining and just as importantly what do i do with the offspring sired from inbreeding, it would be worse to keep them but i don't know what to do with them now their newly born or still in pregant females wrongly mated.
can people here guide me in steps of what i need to do to prevent further inbreeding and what i need to do with the "awkardly" sire offspring i already have? and lastly know it occurs to me how do i tell the inbred offspring from the ok ones, is there some info in their stats bar i need to look at and how to tell?
thanks to any who answear :D

[Abetterolive]

Inbred animals have lower genetic stats. You can control which animals are allowed to mate by using contraceptives, which you can tick on or off in the animal's info panel or you can also do it from the big list of all the animals in your zoo. You can figure out which animals are inbred by going to their social tab (I think it's in social) and it'll show you the animal's parents, siblings and offspring. Then check the parents' tabs to see if they're related.

[Abetterolive]

Also the contraceptives are completely reversible, so don't worry about cutting off any chance of that animal every having offspring. You can turn contraceptives on or off as many times as you want.

[Autisticsrule]

thanks, i'll have a look into their parents tab, and try and work out whos who, may be a little tricky as i've a good number now mostly females now that i've released the herd leaders sons into the wild, they were both silver rank two. now i'm just down back to the orginal two males, the alpha and his rival who never wins, but then he is older and half the size of my heard leader. what surprised me most is that ALL of the bison born into my zoo are sired from him, besides the original 3 females i put in with him, evry single one, even with his rival and two adult sons, only he got to mate, which is great because he's a real star.
so what your saying is i need to reasle all the would be daugters that have no current offspring and give conterseptives to the remaining deugters i wish to keep for herd numbers to prevent them siring offspring with him, and keep an eye on the 1st females health for furture breeding. if i understand you correctly. also on that thought do animals loose fertily rating as they get older like they would do in reallife? as to say would i need to replace the breeding females or male should they reach an old age?

[Tannaidhe]

With animals that only allow one male per group - which, ofc, is most of them - I sell off all males when they reach adulthood, and replace the breeding male via the marketplace once his children are reaching adulthood. If it's a particularly good male, you can keep him breeding for a time by putting contraceptives on his daughters until you're ready to replace him, or just sell/release the less desirable/inbred offspring.

[Autisticsrule]

So once the inbred offspring have matured i'll reasle them into the wild for nature to sort them out, and once the older females have past replace the herd leader if he himself has not died, and take off the contrieptives on his deugters the sire with the new male their father is replaced with, thus imbreeding prevented, and his line can contine, which would be good as one of his daugters is of gold rank and i'd like her to breed when she gets the chance. :D thanks guys

[MrHappy]

The only problem with that solution is that inbreeding might occur when the young males mature then try it on with their mother.

My technique is to sell all males each time offspring are born and replace them with new males from the trade centre. This includes the baby males once they're matured. Sell them all, every single one, then buy another one.

[MacazMania]

You can also now use the heatmap to see who is a possibility to inbreed. I think it is under "Animal Welfare" and then "Breeding". These animals will show red.

[Autisticsrule]

ooh thank you, i would never have thought i could use that for such purposes, i'll have to check it out and see