Reuben, can you go in more detail about turning young dogs over to purify the blood? I’m curious about what exactly that means. What are you doing there that is different from normal breeding?
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Some breeders will bred the same male dog for years and the same female and finally get to the next generation five years later...I didn’t bred the same male until third and 4th generations...the females I didn’t stop until 5th and 6th generations...most everything in my yard was related pretty close and everything bred was a good hog dog...proven through testing and hunting...
My idea behind this plan was go test all pups and choose the best and to make sure everything bred was what I thought were the best...if the sire and dam contribute 50 percent and grand sire and grand dam contribute 25 percent and so on then I wanted to know what each of them were in the woods...
So purifying the bloodline in my minds eye simply means creating enough generations of related and of at least same caliber of dogs...the more generations of this type of dog will increase the percentages of pups with these traits in future generations...
However, once you reach that point that you feel it’s working to plan then just breed the same dogs to replace dogs otherwise you can wind up with tired blood which is the same thing as breeding depression...
The best advice I can give you...breed best to best and keep them related...
The hardest part is finding the right dogs to hunt and breed...hopefully those pups from Justin will be those dogs to get you going...
I don’t just look at the dog...I want to see what’s inside the dog...some dogs produce better than themselves...
