Good cross?

Cajun, the only designer dog names I could come up with for your new wave plott/poodles are poots and plodles. It’ll be interesting to see those,lol.

For sure y’all are right about the dogs getting hunted. I try very hard to place my pups and the two main things I look for in a hunter to place one with are how much they hunt and the quality care they give their dogs. If you really hunt a dog with good genetics for the task at hand, you stand a high percentage chance of getting a good dog. I have becaome a believer in dogs that are purpose bred. I’m not suggesting that dogs let’s say are bred for bear won’t make hog dogs or vise versa. Some lines like Cajun’s are bred for more than one task. Many stock dogs are bred for dual purpose but I have seen it too many times I bet Cajun will say the same, maybe not but I’d bet on it, that some of those dogs are be better at one discipline than others. You might have littermates that both are good dogs on cattle and hogs or bear and hogs, but it’s not uncommon at all for one to be better at and prefer one discipline over the other. One dog might be a good cow dog but if they cross a hog track or wind hogs while working cows, they will leave the cattle to go to the hogs. So if I was gonna breed to one of those littermates to get hog dogs, it’s a no brainer to me on which one to breed to.

How much line breeding a particular family can stand is different for each family. You can get so many indicators if you pay attention. Yes you stack the good genetics but the bad can be amplified as well. You can lose size, or nose, quality of feet, disposition, brains, litter size like Semmes said. I like most of the line breeding options but I haven’t had good luck with mother/son. I know several that have it just hasn’t been a good tool for me. I’m going to try some half brother sister breedings just to concentrate on a particular gyp.

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