Breeding Methods To Tighten Blood

Austin there's just as many ways and methods to go about setting a family of dogs up as there ways to blow money, I, sure your starting to see that the two go hand in hand lol, seriously thought it's great to have a plan and even greater to see your enthusiasm in taking on this task, I'll be the elephant in the tea parlor, don't take this the wrong way but is something to chew on, I know you've got the gumption in you to do it based off your prior experiences, it's an indescribable feeling creating a life, but also comes with a heavy responsibility, are you willing to take it if for whatever reason may arise, it's a tough pill to have to swallow to have to end a life you created, nurtured, bonded with, and became friends with, but something that is inevitable, now about your next planned breedings, in reality exactly how many well thought out plans ever actually goes as planned, now factor in how the laws of inheritance and it makes for some head scratching later on, it's great to have a plan to do this or do that, make this cross then breed back to this dog and back to this aunt or uncle, it's good to have your mind on the future but if it were that simple we'd already had the superior dog, the best breeding method is to cross two dogs that you like for whatever reason and think they would pair good, that's step one, until you have raised the pups and have them in the woods and see how each one performs to your liking, some pups are going to lean toward one side of their ancestry more so than the other, now once you've determined which pups will make it to the next step evaluate what made them successful in producing game, and base your next mating off two dogs that are very similar in style and performance, remember the ones who are productive, when your first starting to build your line from your situation only choose those who can get it done to carry on the family, all sentimental and emotional feelings about particular individuals has to go out the window and you have to be brutally honest with yourself, any weak links from the start will eventually cause your chain to brake when the pressures start getting applied, I'm sure you've heard the proverb of building your house on the Rock and not the sand, that should be everyone's standard when their setting out and attempting to go down the road you are now traveling, another key piece of info is when looking at potential broodstock DO NOT breed to those freak of nature superstars without evaluation of its littermates, if 3 out of a litter of 10 are real good dogs but the rest of the litter was mediocre at best, that's not a good turnout percent, only time I'd say make an exception is maybe in a situation like yours where your just starting to set the family line and are also using a concentrated gene pool per say, although your dog aren't line bred for generations if you close the doors to outside stock and breed from a certain group even if unrelated with each passing generation you start narrowing the down the gene pool, if your were to breed those 3 to other dogs of their caliber and from some kin of some sort and your averages aren't increasing then your headed in the wrong direction, your goal shouldn't be to breed for those lone superstars if your intent is to set a family line, you want to eventually start seeing uniform and consistent litters in positive ways, another thing to consider is breeding two dogs that are similar in all their good aspects but if each have similar faults then your just enhancing the likelihood of enhancing the negative traits just as well as th good, or if you see that a dog is nice in almost every way but maybe have a small shortcoming in one department, might be a little difficult in your case with trying to stay within a certain gene pool, but I'd say seek out a mate that is actually overly abundant in that dept. so your probability of enhancing the shortcoming is greater, if you got a glass of room temperature water, depending on if you want to raise or lower to temperature determines if you put hot or cold water into the glass is of lukewarm, it be kinda difficult to make any adjustments if you only use water that was a few degrees different up or down, don't believe the bull crap about not breeding a dog for years until it's proven itself, if it takes that long then your on a long walkabout going in circles, if your doing things right by two years old is plenty long enough, don't be scared to breed those young dogs who are doing it day in and day out, that should be everyone's goal, and always keep in mind, NATURAL ABILITY BEGETS NATURAL ABILITY, no amount of "training" is going to overcome what is natural instinct....