Its just the oppsite of what most men think. Most think that the family carrys the outcross LOL but I can tell you from years of breeding along with some of the best bulldog breeders n the world that the outcross carrys the family ! I don't care what kind of family dogs you have after years of breeding family you have got to cross and you breed to the wrong outcross you get chicken chit dogs that the sorriest dog men would cull and the families are never the same , you breed that family of dogs to the correct outcross and you watch what happens . That outcross will carry your family blood making great dogs for the next upteen years and not only that other people can build families of dogs off of that outcross .
Try it . It don't make no difference how good your family has been over the years once they are inbred stale and you have taken it to the last level of family breeding if you don't know what crosses with that family of dogs you might as well scrap it . This is why you make crosses along the way with this cross and that cross to find out what crosses best with your family of dogs so that when that time comes that you have inbred and linebred yourself into a corner and went as far as you can go you now have the cross that will break that familys blood out and refresh it and make it whole again and then and only then can you go back to family breeding .
Just me man , again to each his on and there is no wrong way .
This is EXACTLY right. You line breed / family breed until the desired traits you are breeding for, start to diminish. At that point you make your outcross, and then go back into the family again. This is if you are trying to perpetuate a "line" of dogs. Bulldog men know that there are some lines that cross together well and some that don't. It don't mean that any of the lines are necessarily better than the others, it just means that time has proven that certain lines will cross better together. I tried to breed lines together for years (and had good dogs) and the results were not that great. It seems to me that the best crosses I ever made were just breeding the best to the best. An old dog buddy of mine, Cecil Pond would say . . "Son, just breed the best male on the yard to the best female on the yard, then go in the house and pull out the pedigrees and see what you just did".
