On Breeding Better Dogs

the thing about line breeding is that there will be dogs that can/will be unrelated scattered throughout the pedigree...so there will be surprises in looks and hunting style or lack of...so one should inbreed once in a while to concentrate on a particular dog and dogs...

so when line breeding one should look at all the dogs and use those that are somewhat related...when breeding kemmers they will be related somehow so it won't be too big a deal to go out and breed to another kemmer...just make sure to use a line of kemmer that has what you need...

with unrelated dogs find a line of dogs that is well bred (line bred) and is from a good line of dogs...then breed that to your dogs and only use the offspring to breed further into the line so as to freshen it up...I am talking about if you already have an established line...you want to guard and protect what has already be proven and for what you have worked so hard for...

when starting out...
when starting a new line try to get well bred dogs to build your line...what I am doing now is an example of how I am mapping it out...the dogs I have now are inbred kemmer off the gold nugget line crossed with a well bred pocohontas plott...the kemmer was bred to a redbone/pitbull so the pups are 1/2 pocohontas 1/4 gold nugget, 1/8 pit and 1/8 redbone...

I am supposed to get a 1/2 gold nugget 1/2 Texas Smoke female mt cur pup...if she turns out I will breed her to one of the pups and then I will see which direction I will take...my hope is that she will be all I want in a bitch and I will concentrate the genes from that line...like I already mentioned before...my main goal is to have good hog dogs...my secondary goal is to slowly breed towards purifying the gene pool...