Breeding Better Dogs 101...

I was just thinking back on the old bulldog days. The ole time great breeders started out to build a line of dogs. Most started with three four maybe five outstanding performace dogs that they loved. The dogs most likely would be no kin. The breeder would then start to make his breedings culling hard and at first would be crosses but as the years flew by the dogs would become one big family of dogs as he would take no outside dogs in.

Then as the dogs needed a cross he would take his newest generation of family dogs say 2 ..2 1/2 years old and proven and breed them to his oldest generation of dogs say 9/10 year old stud dogs and brood bitches.

This is what is called a back cross amoung family dogs. What this does some of the time you will end up recreating a old dog that was the foundation of your line of dogs. I have even seen with my own two eyes this bringing back what was the almost excate replica of a throwback dog of over 200 years back in the history of the bloodline. I had it happen and we didn't even know what it was are where it come from. As it was put it out on the net got calls from everywhere.

A dog breefer finally track it down in Europe and even sent me a hand painting from the 1700's as I open the package we like to fell out. There was the painting of a dig that looked identical to mine. It ended up being traced back to the Blue Paul Fighting Dog of the early 1700's.

Ain't that something!!!!!!! The dog was so heavily inbred this what the gene pool threw back.

Anyway a back family cross will give a man another Maybe 10 to 15 years if breeding his family line without a real cross.

Food for thought.

If a man starts to build his line on all kin inbred and heavy line bred dogs he will get not nearly as far. So he damn well better like his dogs because I can gurentee you he will cross are loose his line.