Line-Breeding Project

Reuben ,

Sometimes it takes a long long time to find what is called a click in Ole bulldog terms. What that is is two different bloodlines being bred together and the two bloods when combined hit hard and the dogs turn out great with high percentages of good to great out crossed dogs. If there is not many people breeding those types of dogs then I would imagine the chances are slim at finding clicks like this and it is just a hit and miss kinda deal but with the bulldogs at that time it was hundreds of people looking for the same thing slowly but surly the secerts would get out and people would cross the lines and have good and great dogs and start breeding family's off of these proven crosses.

A breeder is going to have higher percentages of culls for sure when he out crosses his line unless it is a proven cross threw the years . This is normal unless both lines are proven together before. Lots of folks would cul even harder when out crossing like this keep only the cream of the crop and I mean cream of the crop, the dogs had to be acceptinal in every way they would then take these dogs and cross back into other lines of dogs on there yards trying to find clicks . It was not a easy thing.

Once a person does find himself a click for his family that is when a man can go for years and years on end breeding in then out again going back and taking it back out producing great great dogs its just a hard thing sometimes finding the right family and then the right mix.

A lot of times when a person does crosses looking for those clicks like this the littlest things are easy overlooked for example a couple of dogs back in the fourth gen of these dogs like those bro x sister breedings I was talking about being back in the fourth gen the breeder would think they are so far back and only in there one time back in the fourth it should not make a difference but it sure does and that right there is the reason maybe his lines didn't click when he crossed.

If a breeder wants to b a great great breeder of dogs are familys of dogs it gets surgical no room for mistakes they can chit can your whole line. This is why you see so many people that breed best to best and not keep familys of dogs . They breed best to best no matter how they are bred, cull and keep only the best sometimes chit canning the whole liters but what they are looking for is that one great dog that will make them famous. These dogs are high high on Hyberd Vigor no kind of gentic defects strong strong dogs because of there outcrossing so superior in performace because of this and as time goes on sometimes these type dogs go on to be the foundations of great lines of dogs because of this but these are one in a million types of dogs they do come along and when you get one you better have the sence to keep it are you will be kicking yourself in the ass for the next 30 years.

I will tell you a story of one of these type dogs one time that I owned and once I got him damn near didnt know what to do with him ahahahhahaahah. The sire to this dog are these dogs went on to b a famous dog because of this breeding. The mother went on to her fame and also become the best producing bitch I ever owned.

You are sure right about the dogs having to be culled and culled hard when you start to breed family dogs