Some of the very best dogs I had were from a father/daughter cross. All the pups we kept up with were above average strike dogs. The father was named Buck and he also was the great grandfather on the bottom side...The great grandmother on the bottom side was a 3/4 Texas Smoke bred female. This made her a father/daughter bred female. She was bred to Buck.
All the dogs mentioned were bred in my back yard except for the 3/4 Texas Smoke bred female. She produced some of the best hog dogs I raised...
That red male seems to be a real nice looking dog and has the stripes to prove he can get rough on a bad one. The red female seems to be leggy and I can't really see how she looks but I bet she is built right. Make sure you identify the bad and good traits including the ones that are not visible, for instance...do the dogs have a good bite??? otherwise you might get all with a bad bite like over shot or under shot...if you do not see any visible negative traits then I say go for it...If one has a negative trait...do the research on that trait to see if it is a dominant or recessive. Recessive traits are easier to breed out.
I would do it and cull hard...test the pups...the breeding program is only as good as the dogs bred and probably the most important part of breeding is in the selection and keeping the best pups for breeding and hunting...
If you do it right the cream will rise to the top...
lots of folks say don't do it but it is the fasted way to get a line breeding program going...but can also be the fastest way to breeding bad faults if you don't look at all the pros and cons and select accordingly...
I am not an expert but I have done it and it worked for me...But every dog I bred was what I thought to be a very good hunting dog...
The best defense is a good offense when breeding dogs...What this means to me is that since I don't know much about breeding I will only breed the very best I have available to me at all times...but then I think that all good breeders do it that way...no compromising unless absolutely necessary and that should almost never happen...
Thanks for the reply Reuben! There are no visible genetic defects in either dog or Pistols dam which was a very good dog aswell. I think if she turns out like I think she will I will give it a try and keep all the pups and go from there.
