Quote Originally Posted by R2L View Post
jack. Let's say i have only one, but an excellent bitch, bred her once and 6 out of 7 stopped, but she produced 1 one other excellent male. Technically speaking, these 2 excellent dogs would be useless in to a breeding program in your eyes? Unless you breed them with a dog from a more consistent game litter and higher your odds, like EWO mentions, or?
If your one, excellent bitch also came from a mostly-cur litter, and then threw a mostly-cur litter, I wouldn't waste my time with her.

However, if she came out of a great litter, but the stud you bred her to didn't, then I would think he may have been the one to foul things up. If he was also from a good litter, then maybe the "mix" didn't work. [Sometimes, for whatever reason, two great dogs just don't mix (e.g., Zebo/Honeybunch), but they can produce when bred a different way.]

If neither the stud nor the bitch came from high-percentage litters, and threw a mostly-cur litter, then I would dump them all and wash my hands thoroughly.

The only way to get into the high-percentage business is to use high-percentage animals

If you gotta plant 6 to get 1 winner, then you're in the mostly-shit "with one exception" business ...

If you have 6 game dogs, and win with one of them, then you're in the truly good bloodline business

Jack