Randy wrights curs

I personally disagree with those who say breed the dog and see what you get. Seems like if you've been hunting and raising a line of dogs for sometime, perhaps you bought the dog as a potential outcross to the line you have.

I just went through the same thing over the past two years. I made three outcross breedings to evaluate the crosses. One litter was all I had hoped for, and I have one pup from that litter that is making as good of a dog as I've ever hunted for his age. Second cross was to a VERY nice male that was said to have produced some good dogs and been a very prepotent male. This litter was the biggest dissappoinment of all. I got everything from a really nice male pup, to a couple females who at a year and a half old won't bark at a hog. I don't care how good this male pup ends up, I won't breed that cross back into my like because of the overall result of the litter.

You have to keep in mind when outcrossing that you're breeding everything bad in that line of dogs as well as everything good. For me, the bad outweighed.

Perhaps you keep that female and in another year she turns out to be a pretty decent dog. Is slow maturity something your willing to breed in? If it were me, I'd keep looking.

When breeding, people sometimes have a problem looking beyond the dog in front of them. Lineage is where the decisions should be made.

Oh...and for what it's worth, I raised three foundation bred dogs. First one was a male and was a pretty nice dog if you could get past his slight male aggression and catchiness. Second decent at best, and the third was a double bred Bounty Hunter female that was probably one of the worst dogs I've thrown feed to.