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Date Posted: 01:32:37 11/18/09 Wed
Author: Jordan
Subject: Re: When to line breed
In reply to: Gijs 's message, "Re: When to line breed" on 23:59:40 11/17/09 Tue

Hi Gijs

Close breedings like this are supposed to lock in the "type" of dog you are tying to reproduce. It doubles up on good traits as well as bad traits. All of the genes can't be seen when you look at a dog and that is the problem.

This is sort of a short cut used in breeding dogs from my understanding. My concern is how long can a breed sustain health like this. Already we have just a 80 or so dogs that started our breed as a pure breed. If you go way back in the pedigrees you see some dogs were bred back to their mother full brother sister mating father back over his daughter and so forth. Some of the breeding like this produced some of the top breeding dogs of their time. Then these dogs were used over and over again.

This type of breeding is very popular in some bulldog breeding circles. In my research I found that the boerboel did not have this type of breeding in its history prior to the standardizing of the breed. At one point only the most useful dogs were bred and any breeds of dogs that could add desired traits to the breed were used by farmers.

That is why we see so much variety in the breed. That is also why it is diffucult to find individuals in the breed that do not share common any common ancestors.

Look at the dog Lourina Mac the highest scored boerboel ever http://www.boerboels.com/pedigree/pedigree.php?S_ID=23&K_ID=4 He is in the my all my dogs pedigrees. And I have dogs different 3 different kennels in south africa. Does any one know what genetic defects Mac may have carried? I am willing to bet that he is mentioned at least once in 98% of all boerboels. Any takers?

I have been seeking answer to this puzzle ever since I became deeply involved in the boerboel.

My threads always seem to get "hijacked" by people looking to start trouble with me and then we get off track.

As a breeder I want to learn from the mistakes other breeders and breeds have made in the past. That is why I am so curious about this breeding strategy.

Check out these videos http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pedigree+dog+exposed&search_type=&aq=5&oq=pedigree+dog

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