just wanted to share what happened there Halfbreed...but also wanted to get folks to talking about my favorite subject...
one thing I know about recessive genes...one is passed from the dam and one is passed from the sire to get the recessive color...so when the pup comes out as a recessive color then he has to be a carrier of said color...so when he gets bred to another dog of the same color the pups all have to be of the same color as mom and pop...another thing I have read is that sometimes we call it a certain color but in reality it is another color so we make the mistake and we get off colored pups (surprise
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another big one is that sometimes a basket of genes is considered a gene...and that basket may vary in genetic make up...I believe the merle gene like in catahoulas is one of these and that is why we have different variations of colors and patterns in the catahoula...I also believe that the hunting traits belong in this catagory...basket of genes because there are so much variation in hunting styles...but I have not read that anywhere just a personal theory of mine...
there is another genetic story I read in the past and I developed the hunting basket gene theory because if it...read below...
I read about a breed of dogs that over a few generations their long hair gets longer and longer...so they breed to a shorter haired dog to get back to what the standard calls for...
So after thinking about it for a while I came to my other theory/belief that hunting traits are a basket of genes passed on as one gene the same way that the long hair gene works... that statement got me to thinking and that is how I developed the basket of hunting traits gene (that acts as one) theory on the hunting traits...
The reason why I believe is because as I bred my dogs over the years I saw more gritt and more hunt to the point that some pups didn't make it to 1.5 years because of heat exhaustion from no quit and some not having the since to back up on a bad boar...because I bred for those 2 traits among others...
but there are lots of things I don't know about genetics...for instance...if a gene for color is recessive and another color is considered a recessive but is dominant over the other recessive is that color gene called a dominant recessive or is it called a dominant color gene when these 2 dogs are bred together???
it is good to have personal theories but that doesn't necessarily make them right...
