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There was a post on here a while back (which I was unable to find) about inbreeding. I do it quite a lot. Here is one of my latest pups with a COI of 29.95% (mother bred to her half brother). There were several SOP 100 in the litter.
https://www.showdog.com/dog.aspx?id=17428678

Try that in American Cockers and I get crap

I will try it in my Cocker kennel

I think the explanation here may lie in the fact that inbreeding is only really a problem when both parents carry the same undesirable genes and the closer the relation between these parents, the higher the potential for this to happen.

Afghans in SD are largely of the 10/20 100 SOP status and have been for some time. They carry relatively few undesirable genes to match up. Cockers are still in the 99 or lower SOP - they still have a lot of "not 10" genes with variations of dominance/recessiveness. Inbreeding a cocker has a greater chance of doubling up on those "not 10" genes. Afghans are a "more pure" breed than cockers.

Now this logic is based on real life genetics (thousands of genes and metabolic processes) but we don't really know the underlying mechanism of "reproduction" in SD or how it uses the COI value.

Well, I'm not sure if my point is getting across, but there it is - lol.

Have an Afghan puppy with an SOP of 100 and a COI of 29.95 up for sale.
https://www.showdog.com/dog.aspx?id=17428681