NorthStar...you are definitely making assumptions about what I have posted...oftentimes when I write about breeding it is not about when I bred full blooded dogs with open pedigrees...moving on...once I got into hog hunting in the early 1980's I fed too many dogs that needed a dirt nap...so I bought quite a few supposedly good pups from good bloodlines and I culled most of them...then I found the right dogs that needed a little tweaking...and with the first young dogs they hit the marsh and were swimming in the cat tails and first time on hogs I caught two with them and then they strike a in a bad clear cut and run a hog for hours...they spent the night running and the next morning they were on my jacket waiting on me...that was my start with the good dogs...the credit goes to a man name Joe Manning, HB white and AC Zoeller and the men before them...all three are dead and gone now...I didn't create them but I improved on them to my liking...I did all I could to do that...the females I bred on the first heat is because they were well on their way to being awesome...every dog I bred in my backyard was what I called a good dog...they were all mt cur dogs but I bred a black mouth cur one time at the beginning to keep the size and quiet the mouth some...I do know dogs...working dogs but I lean towards hunting dogs of all types...especially hog dogs...you can ask me anything you want as to why I did it a certain way and I will have an answer for you because I do believe I did not leave one stone unturned on how and why I bred a certain way...I know what a good hunting dog is and I also know what a great hunting dog is...I also know what kind of dog it takes to hunt with the best of them in any company...
I never did say my dogs were scatterbred dogs...as a matter of fact I said I bred the females rather quickly so I could purify the gene pool...I said daughter and granddaughters...I did not say but they were also related to the sire and grandsire in one way or another...
this is a free forum and your are entitled to your assumptions...and I do think it would really be nice of you if you shared some of your breeding knowledge and techniques with us on this forum...fresh ideas are welcome...
1/2 of it is breeding and selecting...the other half is socializing, training and conditioning...maybe the next
thread needs to be about how we do that...
I have no problem share thoughts and proven practices in breeding of working dogs that have competed at the highest levels of working and sport. I can talk breeding all day. I am sure I have different ideas then some and that does not make them right or wrong. I admit I didn’t know you were using scatter bred dogs but that would definitely make want to have the litter prove the percentages more than a line or tight bred breeding.
You have been breeding longer than me if you started in the 80’s. What type of percentages are your litters throwing of solid workers? The issues some have is the F1 curse how did that effect your results?
