Breeding Methods To Tighten Blood

T-Dog,

I wish Cash would’ve been collected. He died several weeks after this breeding. We had a bad heat spell here and he had a heat stroke on a hog before anyone could get to him. That is a good tip about breeding to an outcross from a family instead of a single dog, the hard thing is that I don’t know of anybody that breeds cur dogs anywhere near close to local. Nobody around here line breeds or inbreeds for whatever reason. I always have my eyes open but have yet to come across it. On the outcross, I was thinking that it would play out better to make the outcross after the blood is tightened up, so let’s say for example I use a female from this litter and take her to my long legged red dog if he keeps progressing and finishes out nice. That dog is obviously scatter bred, but he would hopefully bring in more leg and size which is the main thing I would want to add. These black dogs don’t need anything added to get it done, they have produced many hogs for anyone that has had a chance to own them, but I personally favor longer legged dogs. So if I made that cross, and then selected a pup that took after the black dogs except he also had some more leg, and then I bred him back in to the black dogs, I would essentially dilute the outcross blood while retaining the longer leg trait if I continued to keep the longer legged pups, correct?

If that’s the case, would I be better to do that, or take the outcross male to Mine and then select a pup off of that, to breed back in to her or to this litter? I guess what I’m getting at is which methods would be better from a genetic view? This litter has no outside blood introduced since Bo and Black Betty, so what I’m trying to piece together in my head is the best way to make more branches so that I’m not in a corner, while also trying to breed heavy towards that cross. I know that Mr. Bob Owens and several others had great luck breeding heavy towards the Big Boy and Blondie cross, so that is what got my mind thinking about trying to lean heavy towards a cross that has clicked and clearly produced nice dogs. The Bo x Black Betty cross was apparently a good one because a lot of outstanding dogs have come from it, and I’m hoping the Cash x Mine cross will double down on that and have the same results. The one dog I have off of Mine’s first litter is a really nice dog. More of a RCD because Mine was accidentally bred to my catch dogs brother so the offspring Punk is 3/4 bulldog, but she is a little hammer and has lots of drive and stays busy in the woods. I’m hoping that is a sign that these pups will come out good too. I’m hoping that Mine turns out to be a solid producer. Even if I have to hand raise another litter, I’ll be prepared for it and will deal with it to further the dogs until I have another female to breed on.

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