408northville
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Re: 408northville
John, I am not suggesting breeding one method over another, the topic was adding traits and were to find them and what I am saying is you cannot just add a trait by outcrossing. When Dean was winning big it was a result of inbreeding or line breeding as well as selection. Same with top hounds in other breeds, since then in all the breeds they have not got much better and in general most are worse. I understand there is some exceptions.
quote: Originally posted by ov_blues
With all due respect, you are entitled to your own opinion and I am not going to say your are wrong, but to suggest that we should all get a couple dogs that meet our standards, breed them, keep entire litters, cull, keep the best, and repeat the process for several generations is not something that is even feasible for the vast majority of people to do. This process would take almost total dedication to accomplish correctly in my opinion. So, can we get back to the original question about traits?
I personally had to take a few years away from coon hunting to raise kids. When I got back into it heavy about 7 years ago, I personally felt like the other breeds had advanced considerably from what I had remembered. I started questioning to myself why is that and looking at other breeds and maybe different breeding philosophy's and things that may be working for them. I noticed that you may have 4 different Grandsires that were from different lines on several of the big winning dogs. Totally different than what you would typically see on a Blue dogs papers. Those dogs aren't winning by luck and they are from a variety of different "bloodlines'. They are coon hounds so why would it work for them and not in a Bluetick? Traits of the different dogs and blending them together into one hound to make a top coon dog is the only answer that I can come up with.
Not trying to re invent the wheel, but trying to keep an open mind and learn from other coon hound breeders, not just the breeders of Blueticks.
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