Choosing pups

choosing pups from 4 or 5 generations of above average hunting dogs that are related and there is one great dog that is related more so than the other relatives to the litter of pups...breeding this way greatly improves our chances of getting a good pup...more often than not a high percentage of getting above average dogs goes up and sometimes the whole litter will turn out...

the dogs I have now are decent dogs...but they are scatter bred so the chance of me getting good pups is quite a bit lower...but keeping the litter as long as I can hang on to them and testing those pups along the way...then I will cull based on that...at some point I will be down to 2 pups and hope that my testing pays off with at least one pup...a plus will be having 2 or more turning out...a big problem for me is not being able to keep very many dogs so I don't have much room for error...

a good breeding program is only as good as picking the very best pups...and those that we can not keep should go to close friends so we can have that dog available for a breeding or 2 if that pup turns out to be all that we hope it to be...

when we breed to a different good dog every now and then we will have a 50/50 chance of getting good dogs if we are lucky...then we have to rely on luck when choosing the pups if we get rid of most at 6-8 weeks of age...it's even worse if we do not know much about the dogs behind the dogs that are to be bred...