Message #585521

[The Old Man]

   The half brother/half sister has been my very favorite cross to line up on an individual (male or female) for many years.       These older pups are his second litter, the next in line is just now getting old enough to start, the younger one will be several months away from starting age, so I don't have a "real world" comparison other than similar physical traits and their behavior.
   His oldest litter was from an outside female and I only got 1 of them, it that started real well but received a handicapping injury. The only other one of them I have kept track of that was hunted made a very nice bear dog.
    This male is from an extremely line bred strain of dogs, it was an absolutely closed program, bred by one man, from around 1960 until 10 or 12 years ago.   He started with dogs from 5 crosses, several of which were related and never put anything else in them.