Quote Originally Posted by EWO View Post
One of the early lessons I learned was that the keep does not last eight weeks it starts at nine weeks before they are born. (The forethought/insight into the actual breeding). Any and everything from conception to show night matters. EWO
This is so so true, and while we all would like to think we ourselves "hit the ground running" truth is we have ALL fell, got up and dusted ourselves off a time or two. We have also made culling decisions we later looked back on and not regretted so much, but would have done things differently now that hindsight is 20/20.

Great posts above as well...