So, for those who might be unaware, I'm now going to discuss the intricacies of livestock breeding where certain aspects are described as "phenomena". An alternate method of influencing breeding outcome involves “close” breeding (linebreeding), which can cause genetic characteristics to be firmly “fixed” (homogeny) and become ingrained. The thing to understand is that linebreeding describes the process of breeding among animals that are related. This is the ability to gain weight faster than usual in the spring, to make up for lack of weight gain over winter. Then after weaning, the cattle would have the good flat paddocks to themselves, in order for compensatory weight gain to do its thing.