Originally Posted by SteelyDan
It's good to go in with no hopes or expectations. Breedings are a crap shoot no matter if they are repeat of an already successful litter or a first litter.
Litter I just combed through was mostly cut down due to hyperplasias in the bitches, dogs not starting, chain fighting, and just being raggedy. Was I disappointed? Nope. Had no expectations going into it. Wanted the dogs bred thinking it'd continue their abilities. Was it a total waste? Not so far, cuz I still got that one I think is special.
Moral of the story.... Don't get your hopes up and you can't be disappointed.
LMAO, whoever said I "can't" be disappointed?
But the fact is, I am usually not disappointed and usually get what I want when I breed my dogs.
Honestly, if breeding is still a "crapshoot" to you, then you simply suck at breeding
Crapshooting = using blood you're not familiar with or using blood that sucks and is inconsistent.
Knowing what you're doing = breeding blood you know and can reliably and consistently produce game dogs with.
Hell, I can name 20 breedings that produced mostly game badass dogs for every 1 breeding I did that did not.
So, again, if breeding is a big mystery to you, and you usually get shit, then you simply don't know what you're doing as a breeder.
And I promise you that I have made more breedings than you, so I don't need to be "schooled" on any aspect of breeding.
Being a successful breeder, I am not "used to" getting shit when I breed dogs. I am used to producing game, badass dogs.
That said, I would actually agree with you that the Ouch x Crawler breeding was a crapshoot, because I hadn't really bred Ouch before, and I never had fiddled with that other blood before.
So I really was "crapshooting" with that one, by breeding dogs I had no idea about at the time.
But the Pup Pup x Super Red breeding was a legit shock to me ... as I made every single breeding behind those dogs, for multiple-generations deep, where every breeding behind them produced DEAD GAME, BADASS, WINNING DOGS ... literally IN EVERY GENERATION BEHIND THOSE TWO ... and yet for some reason those two animals mixed together just didn't work out.
Still scratching my head on that one.
And that was the gist of my post: how many successful breeders made a breeding that they really thought was going to be something ... but it wasn't?
Jack
PS: In hindsight, the reason was Pup Pup. He just did not produce well. Don't know why either.
Super Red produced game dogs bred to another dog of mine, whereas Pup Pup produced dogs that disappointed pretty much in every breeding I made with him.
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