Breeding Better Dogs 101...

there are some that talk a good game except that their philosophy has changed a few times since I have read their posts on this site lol...just something to think about...

yes it is important to try and reproduce one dog and then down the road another...I changed my males 3 times and and then chose a male to be the hub...but I turned the females over as soon as they were proven to purify the bloodline for consistency...and then slowed the turnover rate once I was happy with it...and that was to keep from running into that inbreeding depression or tired blood as it was called back then...color was never a priority as long as there wasn't much white...and performance and correct conformation goes hand in hand...

picking and outcross is very important as well...yes...what I have now is 3 generations of dogs that are all males and even though they are all related, grandfather, sons, grandsons I consider them scatterbred because the dams are all different, even though the females were linebred/inbred...I am not in it to develop a new line but I will slowly move in the right direction...I have a pup that might be the hub when I do decide to breed to a female...I was thinking of some old time mt curs out of basically the same style of dogs I kept in the past out of Ohio...

but...I am also thinking Larry Parkers line of linebred/inbred dogs for several reasons...the pups I have now tend to look like his dogs and I do like that color...most parkers are slick coated and his tend to be silent...silent dogs are not a must for me...I prefer a dog that opens 3 or 4 times on a track when they locate to pull the other dogs in and then go silent...

some will say I am being disrespectful to the owner of the line for diluting his line...but I do not see it that way...

there is more to it than just breeding 2 good to great dogs even if related...choosing the very best puppies from that cross is more important that the cross if we want to maintain or improve on each generation...

another thing...a breeder can get results in 10 years as another can get the same results in 30 years...some can take a line and ruin it and others can take it to the next level...