You are not going to be using this little lady for breeding, right? You need to start our building a breeding program with the absolute best dog you can get your hands on....bad knees is not something you want to start out with in your foundation.
After you have been breeding for many years, and you are successful in utilizing the ability to select your breeding dogs that can cancel out not desirable traits....I have a female that has dogs behind her that depending on who I breed her to, she throws puppies that I KNOW will mature to 5-10lbs, or if I change my male up on her, she throws pups that mature out at 4-6 lbs.... You have to know what is BEHIND your dogs, to better determine what you are likely to end up with in pups. When you get really good at breeding, you can breed out the propensity for certain MINOR defects, like weak knees, minor bad hips, unlevel toplines, etc...but this takes alot of knowledge about your lines and what they throw....especially what they throw when you combine certain lines.....some you just DO NOT MIX or you can end up with some really drastic events. This is why breeding is not a "casual, might be fun, generating revenue type adventure"....even under the very best circumstances, God is still in charge of all that, and if you get tooooooo cocky or self assured, He can knock your legs right out from under you with just one litter! |