If I liked the two dogs and wished to get more of that breeding and there was no other relative available that I liked, I would make the mating. Your chances of getting a really good pup from the mating is as good as with any other inbred mating; depending on the genetic background of the two dogs, the pups may vary in their characteristics. I would keep as many of the pups as I could and try to place the others with people that would use them so that the best pups are identified to be used in future matings.
I agree...If the brother sister are linebred or inbred I wouldn't try it but if they are open bred meaning not much relations to the back ground then this would be a faster way to get there. Especially if the brother sister are both great dogs.
Since the sister is the better of the two I would get the best of the daughters and breed out to a different line of dogs. A strain of dogs that resemble your dogs and that would bring something to the table, and then I would get a daughter from that breeding and breed back to the original male who would be the great uncle/grandfather . I would also get one of the sons from the outcross and breed it back to the mother, This will give you a quarter from the original outcross. I would not use the 50% outcross but only once. This will start you on the path to line bred dogs. The great uncle/grandfather pups can be bred back to the original female and now you have options.
The outcross breeding is used once and then no more. The pups from this cross need to be looked at closely. If the majority look decent I would proceed with the pups. If the litter is below par I would get rid of all the pups and look for another good dog to outcross with.
To me success in line breeding happens when we select the right dogs for breeding, good conformation, mental soundness, and natural hunting ability.
Also picking the right pups is very important...can not let the good pups fall through the cracks.
and then the last part is socializing the pups, training/exposing them to game and just good handling in the woods...
The sire and dam contibute 50% each to the pups genetically, and the grandparents 25% each and the great grandparents contribute 12.5%. So it makes sense to turn over the dogs early in the program to purify the strain...and this means picking all pups correctly as well as the breeders... Once you acheive this goal you can hang on to the dogs longer or until you need to replace hunting dogs.
You can start out and not replace you dogs and keep breeding the original dogs and you will have a higher cull rate because you are not advancing/purifying your line of dogs...
you can repeat an outcross every 3 or 4 generations...but it will be best if you already have a friend that has a dog with 50% your bloodline and 50% of another good line... This will be a nice shortcut because you don't want to bring more than a 1/4 outside blood to your line of dogs just to freshen up the tired blood, otherwise it becomes a new and different strain of dogs.
It is not hard to breed better dogs if you know what you are looking for in a dog and select accordingly, and just follow the rules and do not make compromises unless there are no other options...takes money and dedication unless you have 3 or 4 other partners with the same goals to help out...
