Good cross?

I am interested in this topic as well and look forward to others contributions…

I have limited experience in this and my endeavor is young.

These are not find digs I breed but catch dogs so the variables are more limited to the duties and more specific to one task.

I started with a very good dog (female), and crossed her within her breed and even bloodlines. Got good dogs but lacked some things and crossed her to another breed and got some things and lost some things.

Had an accidental breeding with a different breed and got some things and lost some things.

I breed very little and like Tdog have to use what I have to carry on.

One thing I think I have that has passed down through the generations frim the original female, and the reason I started doing this breeding thing is the temperament she had had carried on, which I always thought would going by her and her ancestors and family which I got a chance to see in person.

But for me, in the crosses, the physical characteristics have been harder to nail down.

I lost some size and for some reason my males seem to go one way and are bigger and slower maturing and females smaller and faster maturing. Kinda a sexually dimorphic thing going on…

The ‘bites’, and the builds on the dogs tend to vary widely. This has been not been nailed down. Don’t know if it ever will. But the temperament is there.

Kinda frustrating, and though I don’t have a huge amount of dogs out of this family around I am trying to move on without getting into to much of the corner of a dead end.

Inbreeding depression is a thing and a hurdle when breeding like I do.

With that you loose size, not to mention that I lost that from the original crosses of the breeds.

But I’m still happy so far with temperament, will and drive to do the job intended. Just been hard nailing down the better ‘tools’ I envisioned them having when I started. The major things have improved but there were loses in other departments