Who do you breed to?

[Officially Retired]

If you are constantly striving for improvement of a line and u go back to the dog that produced the ace, you are, in effect, standing still. You may get some good dogs, but you aren't advancing your breeding program.

So are you saying bred to the ace?
How are you so sure the ace will produce?

Say you have a female off the ace and she is missing a piece of the puzzle...
Do you go back to the ace? Or to the dog that produced the ace?

I agree. I don't see how you advance your line by not breeding to your key stud dog.

If you have an ace off your stud, put him in the bullpen and then try to get another ace, this one a bitch, off of your stud dog. Get as many really good dogs off of your stud as possible, THEN (when the stud is gone) advance your line by interbreeding the very best offspring of him together.

That's how most breeders do it that I know ...

Jack

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