| You must always search for the most outstanding individuals...typical of their pedigrees for consideration for breeding. You must leave no stone unturned! Only by analyzine this complete "palette" of dogs can you begin to see what the pedigree and heritage possibilities are for this dog. A dogs progeny is the greatest test of a dogs capability as a stud dog, being fully aware that the bitch and her overall quality what her pedigree brings to the "mix" and how her "sire line" and "maternal family" have crossed with this particular sire is of utmost importance. One can find out a tremendous amount of information by looking at what other breeders have done in combining similar pedigrees. For example: Say a very outstanding dog proves to be a "fluke" and by that I mean this dog is very dissimilar to his siblings, parents and what they've produced and the grandparents and what they've produced, then his worth as a breeding animal would be minimal because he doesn't possess the strengh of pedigree that is necessary and representative of what he will produce. The goal of a Breeder is to get maximum positive traits imparted to their dogs that come from stud dogs and brood bitches who are true representatives of their heritage and that heritage (pedigree) is consistently reproducible in the subsequent progeny (offspring). A dog/bitches phenotype (how they look ) should equal their genotype (how they'll produce). They should produce what they are! This is the basis of "genetics" without this ability to reproduce what they are themselves, their value individually is meaningless as a breeding animal. So, if a great dog comes from a pedigree of very mediocre or very faulty parents/grandparents, and on back, a breeder would be hard pressed to use that dog and incorporate a pedigree full of very average or faulty dogs....In one or all categories: Temperament, Health, Working abitllity and Conformation. Because chances are that the dog is a fluke, and the likelihood of him reproducing what he is ...is very slim. One should always take into consideration the family ..both sire and dam, when considering breeding stock, and weigh the positives and negative....Because you will see "BOTH" in subsequent generations... GUARANTEED! |