Breeding decisions...good and bad

CrackerC, that is the reason we have so many culls...because too many folks do it on a regular basis. But there are exceptions:

example; if I had my main female killed and I needed pups and I have a young gyp I raised from my dogs and I know her background and she is progressing rather well... I would breed her to one of my good males in a heatbeat if I needed pups.

I would breed to her even if I had decided that she was a cull because then I would be looking at the dogs further back in the pedigree and not her. I would much rather do this than outcross to a top gyp from another line of dogs...but like I said...it would be an exception because making this compromise shouldn't happen very often at all but can happen.

If hunting traits were a color we would all have good hunting dogs in the woods...