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« on: September 07, 2023, 08:13:07 am » |
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IMO, there are a ton of variables in every breeding. Every breeding is sort of a crap shoot. We do what we can to improve the odds of getting the desired characteristics but it’s never a guarantee. I have seen it in every species that I’ve dealt with that you can breed a pair and get great results and turn around and mate the same pair again and not get nearly the same. Race horses are probably one of the best examples. Naturally they tried to reproduce the greats by making the same breeding again yet they didn’t produce another great. Certain males and females may produce super and if you breed the studs full brother to the gyps full sister, while the ped reads the same on paper, the results might be polar opposites. I had littermate brothers that were just like alike except for the color wrapper they were in. One produced real nice dogs the other produced pups that were so far out of the norm for the family that I discarded anything that carried that specific dog. I personally believe age, time of year(temps), different things the dogs have gone through, like hormone imbalances in gyps or maybe being severely injured and age can all influence breeding outcomes. Dogs aren’t any different than people in the sense that their body chemistry changes periodically. That has to have a bearing on it too. I rarely make the same cross twice. One I can only keep so many dogs so in order to not get in a corner breeding wise I have to keep dogs that aren’t all the same thing. So if I can keep 6 dogs and 4 of them are full brother/sister and the other two are their parents then I could get in a jam as far as future breeding. That being said, I am contemplating a repeat breeding because I lost the first litter out of this cross with the exception of two. One of those two was pretty sick but he made it on his own so I
let him make it. He’s still an average dog but his brother in my opinion has the potential to be a star. I wanted a female out of that so I might try it again and see what happens. Another option though is breeding the same female to a littermate brother of the first stud. They seem to produce very similar pups and if the young male out of the first cross turns out like I think and a female out of the second turns out, I might try the half brother/sister, first cousin cross. Or have a male that has the same momma as my gyp and the same daddy as the young male I like so much. I might make that half brother/sister breeding and take a gyp out of that back to the young male I like. All three attractive thoughts to me but the second two are most likely. The original cross is an option just because I have seen what that can produce. Hope this is what you were asking about.
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