How much is in there

I agree with what you are saying Tdog...
In breeding dogs we must look at the good and the bad...we can not make excuses for the dog but there can be reasons and those need to be torn apart and we must decide if it is man made or genetic...we can not just look at the breeding pair but also in what is in them...so we look to the breeding pairs parents and grandparents if at all possible...and then we analyze the pups and many times the pups can grow up to be better than the parents, grandparents etc...so it is not just about the dogs involved in the breeding...it’s about what is in the dogs...I say that because sometimes some of the pups will grow up to exceed the performance of their sire and dam...

So we spend quite a bit of time in deciding who to breed and why...

We should also spend as much time as possible deciding on which pups to keep so that we can maintain a minimum in our stringent standards and preferably keeping those that exceed expectations...

So we keep as many pups as possible and test them for natural abilities in different areas such as winding, finding, baying and ranging...observing them every day for how they think, handle themselves and overall demeanor...

Breeding the right dogs is half of it and selecting the right pups is the other half...

Once the bloodline is established then there will be more consistency...

Just night before last an acquaintance and I were talking about breeding dogs...I was telling him early in my old breeding program a lone chocolate female showed up...I gave her away to a hunting buddy...
About 6 generations later another chocolate brindle shows up...

Just because we have linebred and inbred dogs doesn’t mean something else won’t pop up...the thing is it will be a lot lower percentage wise than if the breeding are outcrossed or crossbred...

I once bred a yellow Pitbull to a yellow kemmer cur and every pup was born a yellow brindle if I can remember that far back I believe we had eleven brindle pups...

I called Robert Kemmer about it and he said anytime you breed a yellow kemmer even from many generations of yellow...when bred to another yellow dog of another breed or strain of mtn cur that the you will get brindles...breeding can be tricky so selecting for performance should be first, conformation second and the right colors are just icing on the cake...