If you are breeding a family of dogs you should be able to know the dogs traits enough to know if a dog is bred worthy within 3 hunts.
I agree totally . Here is were I might differ from a lot of breeders of their own lines of dogs. I will sure nuff breed to super star are even just a really good dog from another hard proven family line of dogs and quick if I think it can help my line down the line. A lot of breeders get way hung up with all this line breeding inbreeding I got this pure , I got that pure , to where their lines go almost stale to flat out stale. I would never breed to a super star dog no matter how good he is if I didn't know how he was bred are anything about his ancestry . Also there is breeding programs some dog men have that is called best to best and they don't care which line he comes from as long as he is a very great great dog and comes from great dogs and these men will except nothing but the best . These kinds of dogs have super stars in them from front to back and from good families of dogs and some may call them scatter bred but bro you have no ideal what these kinds of great great great dogs these kinds of dogs can throw when bred into some tight old family lines of dogs . You bet ya I sure will breed my line of dogs into these kinds of best to best dogs . Am not kennel blind some are ! If I bring another line of dogs into this yard to breed to they will have to be atleast as good as mine are better at what they do and are known for if not they are useless ! Am not to proud to say at all I will breed a younger dog at times here and there and if they are not from me are mine you better know I will know just what is in those dogs , were they come from and who they come from .
