cross breeding dogs with bird dogs.

I have owned alot of bird dogs in my life (well over 200). Some dogs are more prepotent than other dogs. There is a guy named Frank Thompson that did a study and what he measured was the number of winners produced compared to total number of offspring. Some dogs produced many winners but were bred to anything that would hold still.

The male has an x cromosome and the female a y and a xy cromosome. A genitic expert doctor told me that the famale definitely puts more into a pup than the male. The horse folks have said that for years.

This is not to say that you can take a sorry male and breed him to a outstanding female and get good pups and vice versa. I had the best luck breeding an outstanding female from a line of dogs known for producing outstanding dogs to the best male I could find.

Some blood does not mix well and I do not know why. There was a great dog named the Kansas Wind that won double digit open championships and NEVER produced anything. A dog named Jumper Jim that never won a championship produced a dog that won more open championships that any dog in history at the time. He could produce great dogs and that was just a fact.

If you can find a repeat mating of a breeding that has produced good dogs you cannot go wrong. Some say that a male cannot produce as well in their older age.

In bird dog terminology a great producing female is called a "blue hen". They can produce bred to almost anything. A great female named Hot Haunches produced champions in six different litters bred to six different males.

Alot of folks hunt their good females and breed the sorry ones which is bass akwards of what they should be doing. Give me a pup out of a blue hen any day over anything else.