blackflagginit
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Registered: Oct 2012
Location: burnt district MO/KS border
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quote: Originally posted by Bobby Reynolds
Sam, When you get right down to it, very few world champs have ever proven to be a great or even good reproducers.
Ya sad but true......same goes for most preformace based animal sports.....like kentucky derby winners throwing derby winners, or triple crown winners throwing triple crown winners.......almost always its the one who was in the running but came a little short who ends up being the super producer, and the super preformer ends up a dud in the breeding ring......
Over the years Ive seen way too much handler influence or just plain luck in the winning to take even major wins seriously. I remember a dog a few years back, from a bloodline i was working for, who was winning everything he entered.......i went on a cast with him at our breed days, and I wouldnt have spent the cost of the .22 shell it would have took to kill him to have owned him. His handler was almost always handed the card no matter where he went, and he had the cast won before he left the clubhouse.....dogs got scratched, minused, wrote up, what ever it took to get rid of any true compitition.
I have no problem with close breeding to get back to the original ?, like i said before i have even made full brother/sister crosses when it seemed like a good idea....It worked ok, and to be honest the conformation part was the best litter i have ever bred.......preformance was exactly what i expected as well, good and bad, I just never took it any farther because it was one of the last 2 litters i ever bred, or will.
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