10/09/2017
JUST SHARING........There is no perfect dog. There is always something or some faults....at least 3....or something that I see that I want to improve on. By breeding these faults/undesirable features out, you clean up the faults but then you realize that there are other new features you want to improve on....and oftentimes, some of the virtues you use to have vanishes. As one known breeders says, I prefer to stay within my line and produce beautiful puppies with faults rather than produce ugly pups without faults.
This seems to be a tough dilemma.....BALANCING
the cleaning up of faults
and
the cementing of virtues.
Usually, when you see a particular strain with specific breed types/look, they also come with specific faults, some manifested in the dog whilst others are lurking behind the lines....and so, what they call family skeletons in the closet. That is what happens when you linebreed and inbreed...eventually, sooner or later, these skeletons in the closets starts to surface....some sooner, some later. Given this scenario, what are our options?
1. Continue breeding WITHIN the family and attempting to clean up the faults by breeding your bitch to a dog that does not have that fault....making sure that both partners do not have the same common fault. INBREEDING OR LINEBREEDING....AT LEAST DISTANT LINEBREEDING. The problem with this option is oftentimes it is hard to find a stud dog that do not have that family fault....and if you do find one, it may have another problem that you want to clean up....or perhaps, the boy does not have the virtues you want to keep.
2. Continue breeding OUTSIDE the family breeding with the main focus of cleaning up the faults. OUTCROSS. The problem with this option is that the faults will be cleaned up but at the end of the day, by continuously doing this, the dogs you produce no longer have your family look....which is what that known breeder was talking about.
3. Combination of #1 and #2. Basically, you stay within your line for at least 3 generations to maintain a strain. From there, breed outside to clear up a fault....one generation if cleaned up in one generation....two generation, by which time you will have cleaned up.....then breed back to your family of dogs. OR breed outside to some other stud dog that is partly related to your family of dogs and use the best result to breed back to your line.
I would generally do #3. There is a big problem though. As I mentioned earlier, there are at least 3 faults/features in most, if not all of the dogs that I see. How do you clean up say all these 3 faults. when it is hard to get a stud dog that has all these traits in its counterpart virtues. Here, again, you have the following options:
1. Work on one fault at a time until you are cleared from that fault consistently. So, even when that fault is no longer visible in your pups, you continue doing this system to cement the virtue(corrected fault). But then, the other faults are not taken care of. Then, after a few generations, work on the other faults. Imagine....say 2-3 generations would be 3-4 years of breeding before you work on the next fault!
2. Continue breeding to partners without the common fault and cross your fingers that faults do not come out. More often than not, they do come out and if they do not come out, the faults is virtually camouflaged lurking behind the dog waiting to come out in the next generation.
Here is a chart of Mendelian theory....it reads Mendelian color chart which is same for all intents and purposes. The key is determining which feature is dominant and which is recessive.
