Goose, I think it is going to take you a looong time to achieve any degree of consistency with your 3 breed 4 strain crosses due to the genetic diversity. You are basically breeding for traits, some breeds breed really strong or dominant for "some traits", for example bulldogs are known for "bite" if you cross bulldog in another breed you will typically but not 100% of the time get rougher dogs with more bite, or say if you crossed bloodhound in them those offspring would typically respond to less or colder scent, BUT when you made one of those crosses even those that did display the traits you were trying to achieve they will also have recessives for the traits not displayed. You mentioned what John Wick did it was similar to what you are proposing, lets call it trait breeding, but he did it within one breed with dogs exhibiting like traits and even at that you said it would take a long time to achieve consistency. To go the trait breeding route with a mix of very different levels of the traits you are after will require keeping most all offspring for evaluation then only mating those that seem to have acquired the desired traits, and over the generations weeding out ALLLLL the recessives you incorporated in the original crosses. I believe you will raise some good F1's and if you cross them back to one of the original pure strains you will do okay but if you attempt to cross the F1's to each other your consistency's will probably go down. No schooling or technical training in this opinion, it is just that an opinion based on watching dogs and livestock through the years.
Thanks for your input Mr. Clue, I’ve put a lot of thought into it already about what you mentioned, like I stated earlier the plott/walker cross is a complete shot in the dark, so far it seems to have produced some really gamey pups, now this could change as this experiment progresses but as of now I planning on taking the ones that meet the standards I’m looking for and going back into the pure side on top and bottom,now this is just merely a thought and idea, but in a perfect world I’d like to take the ones that got the stronger noses back to the dames side and the ones that got the mothers speed on track back into more blood from the sires side and maybe keep crossing back and forth within the resulting offspring, like you mentioned there’s plenty of genetic variability there to not have to worry about getting to tight to soon, I don’t have any plans on crossing the f1’s out of the plott/walker and cur/walker anytime in the near future, when I mentioned about crossing the offsprings of the two different original crosses I guess I left out that if that happened it would be in the distant future and that itself is just a speculation at best...
I plan on doing the same types of crossing on the progeny of the cur/walker crosses but the difference here is I know the cur side deep enough to know what recessives to look for that may pop up, this family of curs by no means is perfect in any way but has had hard eyes kept on them for long enough that most of what was undesirable has been weeded out over the years, way before I got my hands on them, there’s definitely more pros than cons with them, my main and really only issue with them is the line control issue and that itself isn’t that bad of a problem but something id like to improve upon, the walker blood that I crossed over them is the result of many years of hard line breeding and severe culling initially and have resulted in an extremely strong family line of dogs, like I stated above my plans are to keep taking the offspring of these crosses (just the cur/walker)and keep them within each other, I have way more knowledge about what I can expect to see pop up with these particular crosses being as they have more line breeding on top and bottom and I have first hand knowledge of the one side and the gentleman that owns the walker line has had them for quite a while to know what to expect, again this experiment is a just a thought and idea as of now until more litters are made and I will be able to see where it’s going, I’m fortunate enough to have a network of close and like minded hunting buddies that I’m able to send pups to too have them properly tested, so only time will tell, again thanks for your input...
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