I know that unwanted health effects happen in line breeding and breeding dogs in general. To rephrase my question, are certain crosses (such as breeding a son back to his mother) more likely to bring out health defects? Its also worth noting that the gyp was line bred. Dont know exactly how tight.
I got four pups on the ground now off of a mother to son cross, the mother is my Shiloh female and she's has no line breeding behind her, I took her to a very tight bred running walker male, I raised my Ben dog off this litter and bred him back to his mother to tighten up their baying, so far the pups are the walking definition of fat and happy, one thing we all have to take into consideration is that not all families and lines of dogs breed the same way so one mans horror story maybe another mans success story using the same breeding techniques but with different families of dogs...
