[PyrNet-L] size/gene pools

["ARIEGE" <ARIEGE@xtra.co.nz>]

So much to read about and part of the day wasted with mundane chores like
shopping ,yuk.  Takes a brave person to consider continually outcrossing in
the future. One way of introducing new problems you may not have had before.
Sure sometimes you get the "hybrid factor" with maybe increased vigour but
my experience was bitches bigger than dogs so it's the sort of thing only to
do occasionally when you wish to introduce new blood for specific
reasons.With outcrossing continually you may find that after a while the
offspring don't look as though they are even brothers and sisters and you
may lose some breed type. The biggest winning dogs I have known are mainly
from line breedings with an occasional outcross and these dogs have also
been very sound.  Been said for years in NZ that we had a narrow gene pool.
This remark was even quoted from here in overseas magazines. Now this is not
true.  We had quite a good sized gene pool, what we had were Breeders who
hated one another and their stock, continually ran each other down and would
not use each other's dogs. When I imported a dog with the  Aust,Canadian,
French,USA.UK lines, no one battered my door down to use him, their loss but
luckily for me his progeny went to future Breeders and they have been and
are being successful with their Breeding along with their own imports and
homebred stock in linebreeding and a bit of outcrossing . One Breeder was a
bit concerned that his 2 litters this year and next will both be outcrosses
but he's also planned ahead and what he will be doing I shall be hoping will
also help me later on when I am in need of another outcross so people can
work together here now. Why not all those years ago? I'm sure we would have
been much further ahead today if they had.
Jan Chaplin Ariege-Roussillon Pyreneans
visit PMDC Site at http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Zoo/6339/