I have trained many dogs for friends
This has nothin to do with this
I'm just sayin that u can get good dogs out if both good and bad lines
I'm leaving it at that
breeding dogs is complicated when we are talking about an open pedigree which really only means that we are talking about one breed of dogs but no relations in the pedigree to speak of. This makes it to where the genes are very diversified. The way I understand it is that the parents contribute 50%, grandparents 25% and the great grandparents contribute 12.5% of the genetic makeup to the pups and so on etc. etc. This lowers the pecentage of consistantly getting pups that have hunting qualities especially if not all the dogs in the lineage were hunting dogs. Besides, too many people have different ideas as to what a good hunting dog is.
This explains why sometimes the parents don't hunt and some of the offspring will. We can also have pups that won't hunt for 2 years and all of a sudden the switch trips and they start hunting. This is still genetics at work and I believe some folks may confuse it with training...not saying that training and sticking with the pup didn't help... I would have culled this pup at ten months if it didn't show me a certain amount of natural ability for this age. I see a dog that finally starts as a 2 year old as one that will pass those traits. I am not contadicting myself because of the percent contributions I just talked about...We have to start somewhere and I believe that we have to keep the dogs that meet our requirements if we want to breed a higher percentage of good dogs AND THIS IS CALLED GENETICS...
The higher the percentage of good dogs in a bloodline, especially close up, will give us a higher percentage of good pups and we as breeders should do our best to keep the very best of the pups, not just for hunting but it is more important to do so for breeding...if we are breeding dogs.
