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I'm not a hog hunter, I'm a cat hunter so I can't comment on the types of dogs y'all are looking to produce. I will say that within a specific line of dogs of any breed it is very difficult to consistently produce "good" dogs even with tight line breeding. That being said it doesn't seem to me that it would be very probably that you would consistently get "good" dogs in just 7 breedings or less when creating basically a new breed. It probably depends on how strictly you judge your dogs abilities. IMO many people who are producing litters and not culling many are probably not evaluating their dogs honestly for one reason or another (in general, not directed at anyone). IMO, if you are not culling hard you are not helping any of the existing breeds or crosses. This means culling because you have hunted hard and not seen the traits you want, not culling because the dog is the wrong color or doesn't have a bob tail, etc...But since I don't hunt these types of dogs I could be wrong, just stating an opinion from a different point of view.
I do think that if you are trying to produce a new breed or strain or whatever that there are enough hunters on this site and others with similar goals so that some of you should get together and share the breeding and evaluating. This stuff takes time to do it correctly and ten of you working together on crosses could do it a lot faster than one. That would also allow dogs to be evaluated in different areas and different terrain.
Derek
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