sister vs. sister/brother vs.brother

[CYJ]

First, both male and female dogs should be excellent built specimens. No bad faults like under shot or over bite jaws/fiddle front end/cow hocked/ not having a good deep breathing chest capacity and so on. This should always be taken into consideration even when line breeding. Sadly as I tell you this, very few really know what a excellent looking functional pit dog looks like. One excellent built dog that comes to my mind would have been Weldon's Jimmy Boots.

Some of the dogs that California Jack bred up were nice looking dogs. When you got 32 to 35 pound dogs that look big as a 42 to 45 pound dog. You doing something right. One has to strive to breed big bone dogs to weight ratio, when brought down to show weight. All things equal the bigger boned/longer neck/ ranger dog will win every time. Especially in hot weather.

I had very little success with brother/sister breeding. Maurice Carver's thoughts on this subject was that; you double your goodness and triple your junk. He was 100% right on. Most of the brother/Sister breeding I made produced a bunch of nut cases. Dogs were well built, some showed to be very game and rough but all their teeth would be gone by the time the dogs were old enough to show.

My biggest mistake with my last breeding's was not using my Young's Winchester dog first over all my brood bitches. Instead I used my Young's Jake dog, the Zetterquest brother's Crazy Critter dog. Now this was not brother'sister breeding's, but was heavy on the Eli- Bully Son dog etc. Results huge dogs to big for my liking. Some of those last dogs weighed 65 to 85 pounds on the chain. Another stud dog that produced really big dogs was the Jim William's Paladin dog. The Hammond's line usually produced big catch weight dogs also.

Starting to get off subject. I feel IMHO that a Brother/Sister breeding is to be done when a great blood line is about gone or to be lost. Usually you have to weed out the triple junk and the next breeding add a good line bred dog back in to keep bad faults from cropping up and maintain hybrid vigor.

IMHO the best way to breed dogs is when you make that magical clink that produces an all litter of very good to great dogs. You keep that stud dog and bitch dog in tip top health. Breed them till the well runs dry. Why waste feeding and caring for dogs of probably less quality. If you are seeking very good to great show dogs. You have the right recipe staring you in the face. Why go breeding your bitch to this are that.

Talked to a few young dog men over the last few years that have lucked up and made some really good breeding's that gave them the dogs they were very happy with. I asked them how many breeding's off those dogs they got to make. Usually just that one breeding and that good bitch dog or stud lost from a kennel fight etc. Or they were off to the latest fad or latest Super dog on the market. I have done the same myself. LOL Unless one plans to peddle dogs keeping to many different bloodlines will overtime prove unfruitful and wear a one man dog operation out in mind/body/spirit and last much wasted money. IMHO Cheers