always wondered this ..... if you were going to breed a pit to a bird dog for an example, and lets say the pit was the male and the bird was the female, would the pups be more like the daddy , more like the momma , half pits and half birds , or a good combo of both ?? guess what im trying to ask is , if you wanted dominate traits from one dog and just a touch of the other , does it matter whos the male and whos the female in the breeding ?? lets say i wanted a leggy dog with great nose , lots of hunt ,stamina and grit ...... should the female be the bird dog or should the female be the pit for the breeding ? or does it matter as long as you use good genetics on both sides ? thanks
I really don't know the answer to your question...but they say the sire and the dam contribute equally...
here is what I have read on it and these are just theories...let's say the dam is the pit bull...the pups learn through behavior to act somewhat like the dam because they spend quite a bit of time with her as pups...this is a learned behavior...
Another man wrote a story about some of his thoughts on the dam...at first I didn't believe cause it was way out there...he was saying that everything is about chemical reactions and he was talking about the pregnant dam in general...his example was that when one worries that we react differently but some generate more stomach acid than others and some quite a few will get acid indigestion and that is one example of chemical reactions...he was saying that why can not unborn pups not learn from the mamas excitement and hunting technique...he said that when the dam is running a track and smelling the coon scent and becoming excited over it that that could somehow transfer to the pups because after all they are connected to her...and when she catches and kills a coon that they can feel and react to the dams reactions/actions...so it is possible that these pups are born to hunt coon and we might think that they are natural coon dogs and some might be but others might already be preconditioned to run and catch game because the dam was hunted until she was about to give birth...
after reading and thinking on it it made a lot of sense to me...I didn't really answer your question but hopefully it gives you something to think about...
