Originally Posted by
bossman311
It's a whole lot more to breeding a family of dogs than just picking 2 dogs to breed.
Even then once you locked in certain traits you can be using a breeding stand for the every breeding based on dogs too active even to breed.
It takes going through each and every dog in each and every litter to finding out what is the best dogs to breed.
No one cares how many just picked ou 1- 2 and sold the rest. Most from my time didn't let go of what they did not keep. You active let out there pwn stock so some one can come back and beat them with it.
Yes allot kept secret recipes but if you knew how to breed than the end result was all you needed anyway.
Allot these days make big claims with doing minimum work as if it's to be celebrated. Meaning at least breed your own family from end-end of a 4 generation pedigree.
You cannot possibly know as much of your product as you think with only 1-2 generations.
You just can't. It takes no less than 4 generations to lock in traits and after that it's up to the breeder to then fill in traits the end results is lacking in. Now after the next 4 generations you have to repat over .
Breeding too much of one thing wil over ride years and years of work and not breeding enough of something is just as if you added nothing in some cases because it takes more than 1 breeding in most cases to lock in traits.
I had hands on with 20 straight generations. I used more than 20 pure-almost pure families to create a single family. Every family was line bred down from grand champions with the exception of the Red Boy dogs used from the Hollands family.
Decades ago it was more and better bred family dogs IMO than there are today. In these times there are more scatter bred dogs than family bred dogs.
I used and stuck with my own method of line breeding battle crossed dogs while keeping them family bred.
Based on the breeder not a single dog.
It takes 1 breeder to establish and maintain 1 standard. As simple as that.
And as a breeder it's not a single family that you focus on but also breeding outcrosses to your base. I have put together over 1 dozen different strains conected to 1 single family so I never have to go outside my own dogs ever again.
If you are not going through 75% of each litter than you are not close to picking the best to go back into your family.
Even belly mates are different so just because they are belly mates does not mean they will perform nor produce the same or even close.
That's what going through whole litters for 18 generations and more teaches you.
No matter what you start out with the dogs change every 4 generations, Nothing stays the same. Learn your dogs. Books and stories are nothin close to hands on with each one.
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