Let me try to dig a little deeper on this as I woke up in the middleof the night with all this running through my mind!
Craig wrote: now my next plan is to breed one of those 50% earl pups back to a daughter of earl out of the same outcross gyp and continue to produce 50% Earl blood.
Monteria wrote concerning keeping a line/inbred line going off to the side: you have to keep your original line intact
Ok here is my questions then:
Craig is there a reason you ended up keepeing just the 50% mark and not 75% or so. I am trying to wrap this all up in my mind. Is 50% all you thought could safely keep or what. If Earl is what you were trying to reproduce could you have just bred him to a daughter, then granddaughter, even Great graddaughter ect. so long as you culled any defects of sorts that bubbled up so to speak, then once you have that product outcross to say cousins or whatever you felt was just far enough out as to not bring in a complete new line? or do you think that is to tight
If what Monteria said and I can't see anyway around doing that, is correct do you keep straight earl bred dogs off to the side to maintain his original blood? and a line of slightly outcrossed dogs as well??? This is good stuff and I am trying to pry out what I can while you guys are talking,A big thanks by the way
