Goose I didn't say anywhere that those things didn't make "any" difference, just that the selection and culling were "far and above" better tools than all the other stuff. And let me clarify about my earlier post where I mentioned your proposed 3 breed 4 strain crosses-I did not mean they would be culls just that the even mix you hoped for by combining them would be hard to get consistently, many of them would lean more to one of the 4 strains or one of the 2 crosses. Most likely whichever one was the more prepotent genetically. And though I appreciate the respect intended there is no need for a Mr. in front of my name just plain OL'Clue will do.
Nothing more than a misinterpretation of the way I read it, I didn’t take it like your were saying anything would be culls in any way, I completely understand what you mean by the many mixed variables, Its hard for me to translates thoughts into text but I anticipate on there being a mixed bag of the two sides in each of the two crosses and understand the fact that some are going to lean more to one side than the other in the f1 litters and the ones after that, the parents for the f1s can or could each catch game right by themselves and look good doing it but some each have their strengths in certain traits, I don’t have a picture in my head of this ideal dog or certain type of individual I’m breeding for but am trying to build a family of dogs that can consistently catch game and consistently reproduce more dogs that can consistently catch game, and just chose to step back a little further to do it than most, I understand that there’s going to be differences in type of litter maters , I don’t plan on deviating outside of either of the two crosses anytime soon if at all if I have or want to, the dogs contributing to the biggest majority of the gene pool are and were dogs of good caliber both in the bushes and brood box for generations my plans are to do just as your bear hunting friend said to do it, let Mother Nature take it’s course on the ones with more Braun than brain and I’ll take care of the ones that ain’t got the gumption or go, I’ll have to keep an eye on which side is the most prepotent and if there’s a certain side they’re pulling to, I’ve already done a test to see how prepotent the cat strain walker blood is, I took my male of my first f1 cross that is a little over two and is a really nice dog in the woods and can hold his own with different company and bred him to a female of a good friends that is as scatterbred as it
can get, and is 9 generations of nothing
but hogs dogs to hog dogs, all the pups went to guys that will hunt them hard and do what is necessary if they don’t meet the grade, I’ll know in about a year if the blood is strong in this f2 cross...
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