Widows peak in Bulldogs

Hunting heritage that was a neat and interesting article. I’ve been around hunting/working dogs, working horses (rodeo/cow horses of one kind or another), and game chickens my entire life. I would say a vast majority of the people that molded me in any of those, all had very similar thought processes. Obviously, there are always exceptions to the rules, but as a whole certain rules just seem to hold up. As a kid and a youngster I always liked the loud colored and different looking animals. It didn’t matter if it was loud, flashy marked catahoula, a paint horse, or a blue game rooster, they had my attention. Pretty is almost always gonna get bred because people just appreciate pretty and most will give pretty chance after chance when they would’ve already discarded it if it weren’t pretty. When I got older, and started losing my money betting on pretty, my dad and other mentors all explained it about the same way. I will use the game chickens for example. If you were at a derby and you could put all the winners in baskets according to color, the basket with the plain old red roosters would be over flowing several times over before the baskets of uniquely or off colored roosters. I asked why that was and it was explained that there were two reasons basically. One was that some colors are just inferior for one reason or another. The other reason was that the off colored birds were selected on color or beauty ahead of performance. The plain old reds were selected for performance first more times than not. None of this means the off colored ones didn’t win or beat some red ones or even that there weren’t some great ones of off color. If you look at the most popular families out there they will come in all colors because some people are about performance alone and others are in hopes of having uniqueness as well performance. There are some really good off colored families but there seem to be fewer of them because of the lower percentages in performance. There are family after family of reds though that just never go away because they perform consistently. There are a lot of really good blue roan horses, but when it comes to being well rounded, the better ones are crosses to a good red bloodline. Many of the blue horses are known for being tough as nails but not as athletic. Again, there are always exceptions. Many of the old cowboys always said that if you watched westerns on TV you would see that the Indian Cheifs made their braves ride paints and apps. They said it was so the braves would be good and mad when they got to battle. I have seen some of both of those that were as good as any in any color but not consistently. As for my bay dogs they are a cat/Walker cross. It seems like I’m always drawn to the merles in appearance but end up keeping the different variations of black, brindles, or Walker colored ones. It seems like the longer I raise them the fewer merles I get because of it. Not that the merles aren’t good but that the others seem to be a little better. I don’t know if any of this makes sense to anybody but me lol, but this article was saying something very similar to me. And please, nobody be offended by what I’m saying. I’m not trying to knock ANYBODY’S dogs, chickens, or horses. If you like them I love them. They only have to please you. Mine wouldn’t please anyone but me most likely.

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