"only the very best should produce once the line is started...BREEDING FOR NATURAL ABILITY...and that means just that...natural ability begets more natural ability"
Have you ever seen a great hunting dog that was a sorry reproducer? Do you ask yourself why? Or wonder why so few NBA or NFL Hall of Famers have children who are as good as the parent?
I really don't have that much experience other than what I have read on great dogs that don't reproduce and I am sure there are lots of reasons...using common sense one can rationalize and in my mind when we have scatter bred dogs one will get scatterbred pups and it can also mean getting all culls when bred to the wrong female...
and an average dog from a long line of great hunting dogs should be able to produce a higher percentage of good dogs as that once in a lifetime dog that does not have good breeding behind it...
we then have to consider if certain desirable traits are dominant or recessive because that should play an important roll in the outcome...but because I don't know the answers to this then the only thing left to do is use what knowledge we have...and for me it is best to the best within a family...there needs to be a certain amount of turn over before we can decide that the line is purified enough that one can actually consider a dominant male or female that we can focus on in concentrating the line off of...once that happens then we should slow the generation turn over down so that we do not breed oneself into a corner right away...or getting to the point when one has to introduce new blood which in my mind will open a can of worms...one can not make mistakes when it comes to selecting pups...otherwise that generation will have to be repeated...just my thoughts on the subject and what I believe is the right way for me...
