I agree with you there. Genetics are a funny thing. Dogs have those genes present that don’t necessarily show until you breed to another dog that was also hiding the same gene. I had two pairs of brothers once that I bred to. One pair was were out of my find/bay dogs. The two were peas in a pod when I started them as pups as were their two sisters. If you had closed your eyes you wouldn’t hardly have been able to say which one was baying. They all had the same style. And they were all built the same. The wrapper was the only difference in them visually. My buddy kept a pair and I kept a pair. My female was accidentally bred once and the pup was an absolute outstanding cow dog. She was used daily on cattle that had to be hunted up. She would wear out a couple of sets of good dogs daily. My male produced very well, very high percentage litters in working abilities and style. This male was a really nice dog in his own right. If I had a kennel full of him today I’d feel very fortunate. We bred his brother and every litter was the same, 3 or 4 litters I think. They were true to the family in type but that was where it stopped. These dogs typically start themselves at a very young age. This second males pups didn’t start until they were right at a year old and were 2 before they were a factor in the woods. The first males pups we’re contributing after just a few hunts. Some of the people that got the second dogs pups loved them, different strokes for different folks I guess. I didn’t keep anything off of male #2. The second example was two bull dogs out of my old family of catch dogs. Both were outstanding dogs but built slightly different. You knew they were brother by looking but one was slightly thicker, carried a little more body than the other and a a little larger head but again, the same shape. One was 90-93 pounds depending on the time of year. The other was 95-100 depending on the time of year. When we bred them, the heavier brother produced pups that were more similar to his brother in type and his brother produced pups more like him in type. It’s hard to account for what you can’t see. Again, all 4 were originally crosses that were being line bred to establish a very consistent family. You were lucky to find dogs that were established and fit you. That’s a real head start.
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Yessir genetics are finicky I’ll never truly understand them lol
I just lucked into them really because we’re from the same town
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