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« on: May 07, 2024, 12:46:24 pm » |
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Jimmy I agree with some of that and some of it not so much. There are countless mindsets on breeding and probably every one of them has been tried countless times and had success and failure. Breeding good to good can absolutely produce some barn stormers. But here’s the the thing, very few of those crosses were accidental. Most all of them were made with a purpose. The breeding pair used MOST of the time, were dogs that came from line bred families. When they crossed a really good dog from a line bred family back to a really good dog from another line bred family, they created a hybrid vigor. Those hybrid vigors like that are often hard to beat in any discipline. Another factor is that depending on the what the animal is being used for as to how many traits a breeder is having to try and carry on. The greyhound for instance, they are bred for very few characteristics. Our hog dogs have to possess multiple characteristics to be able to get the job done. The more characteristics you have to try and preserve the more you have to try and concentrate the gene pool which means breeding dogs with as many of those traits as possible to another that possesses as many as possible. More times than not, line bred, purpose bred dogs are the ones that carry those traits. Look at Mother Nature. Wolf packs are line bred as all get out. Generation upon generation being bred back to each other. If an inferior mating happens, then those pups don’t make it. That’s survival of the fittest and it’s definitely line breeding. This is why they all look alike, move alike, hunt alike, etc. There is no fail proof method. Cloning isn’t even fail proof. If it was we would be watching Secretariat race Secretariat and more women would have husbands that look like me. Just kidding, maybe the Secretariat example was a little much. It was no different in the game chickens. You would see very successful chicken men that would win a lot. If you asked how the birds they were using were bred, you were likely going to here that they were a cross between two or more families. If you went to their yards, they would have brood pens mated up and they would tell you these are my pure such and such, this pen is pure this, that pen is pure something else, these pens over here are my battle crosses. The hybrid vigor created something better than either family used to creat it. Sometimes those crosses would be so outstanding that they would try and establish a new family out of those crosses. The only way they could establish a new family and capitalize on what made that cross better was to line breed them. That’s my thought process on it anyway.
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