Originally Posted by kingkong1
Interesting distinction.
I would be more willing to try a good, unknown female out over a male -- because it doesn't hurt if she can't produce.
In other words, in the original scenario, the question was should I waste one of my good female's heat cycles on an "unknown-bred male" (which I would NOT do) ... but tossing a load of semen from my excellent stud into an "unknown bitch" is altogether different, because I have not committed so much to the unknown dog. In other words, I can use my good dog's semen on one of my well-known bitches anytime ... the next day if I want ... whereas when I commit one of my bitch's heat cycles to an unknown male, I can't use her again for at least another 8 months (maybe a year or more).
This is why you could call up any dogman and breed your done-nothing bitch to his Grand Champion Stud: it's nothing to him to lose a little semen out of his stud; he can use him again tomorrow.
But if you called and asked to borrow his best brood bitch to breed to your done-nothing stud, he will say "NO!", because nobody is going to waste a heat cycle of their best bitch on anything they don't know and want real bad.
The level of commitment is simply too great, with using a key female on an unknown male, whereas there is zero commitment using a key male on an unknown female, because you can immediately use the key stud's semen again.
Jack
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