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What is your all's thoughts on line breeding?

Be a 1st cousin x 1st cousin cross just wondering need some feedback....

Next best thing to inbreeding.

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I like to breed UNCLE to NIECE for line breeding if bought dogs have what U are looking for ---

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ALLNITER DOUG CHEEK

ALWAYS GO BY THE RULES AND NEVER A PROBLEM

cousin to cousin is keeping it in the family but I would rather go back to the grand parents with them cousins . that is if the grandparents are what I am trying to maintain .

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Define "linebreeding". Is it line breeding if only done once or is line breeding a committed effort?

Here is what OakRidge said in the breeding discussion thread:

"The true secret to line breeding is NOT in the pedigree...it is in the type. Until you have individuals that are similar, you are fooling yourself if you believe you are truly "line" breeding. The term comes from days gone by when people bred what they had for a particular reason...they like the color, the sound, the style..whatever, but they took similar, yet related individuals, and crossed them to get more of the same as they had....

Too many people are paper breeders and are not breeding for similar characteristics....

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Joe Newlin
Home of Oak Ridge Treeing Walkers
Whitey Dogs ROCK"

I couldn't agree more.

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Larry Atherton

Aim small miss small

Line breeding is the only way to improve/maintain a line consistently I like uncle/niece, aunt/nephew, father/daughter, mother/son, grandparent/grandpup/, cousin/cousin. If you make each selection with fore thought at improving your line. I dont like brother/sister and will only do it if there is no other way. When I make an out cross I use a dog from the same family line that is several generations removed.