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My first go at true source x source breeding! I've seen that it takes years this way to develop a line up to what would be considered show quality. Any tips anyone could offer on best strategies to match up potential mates? I've already started half winging it while thinking I know what I'm doing so any tips would be appreciated! Even if it means telling me I'm completely wrong lol

Don’t even think about ‘show quality’ fir at least 15+ years.
Seriously.

You may have seen some of my posts on this but I will say this again, TRUE source breeding is Not for the faint of heart

I started in this kennel in May 2006.
The highest SOP is 96.55.

In the Show ring, what is winning is upper 97’s and 98’s.

Carol

How I started was breeding a few pairs Gen 0 to Gen 0

St the beginning, don’t worry about stats, just continue breeding Gen 1 to Gen 1 and so on.

Years later, I started seeing blues. I then tried to match a stat to another dog and breed those.
Forget about Show Shine.
Where I am now, I still don’t care about SS.

If you have any other ?? just send me a message.

Carol

Oh, and have a separate kennel, if you can, for your source breeding.
If you don’t, you will eventually find out you need one, if you plan to do this seriously.

Carol

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posted by Caulfeilds Kennels
How I started was breeding a few pairs Gen 0 to Gen 0

St the beginning, don’t worry about stats, just continue breeding Gen 1 to Gen 1 and so on.

Years later, I started seeing blues. I then tried to match a stat to another dog and breed those.
Forget about Show Shine.
Where I am now, I still don’t care about SS.

If you have any other ?? just send me a message.

Carol

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Thank you ?? show shine seems to be my best stat right now but I haven't really factored it in so happy accident there lol. Just had my first round of Gen 1 pups. Kept the best SOPs because some of my females outdid themselves and had a larger than average litter. I did just get a Gen 0 male and found a Gen 1 I believe up for sale. Would you suggest only breeding them to the same Gen females then?

Sorry, I missed this. If you have a Gen 1 female, only breed her to a Gen 1 male.

Oh, another suggestion, don’t waste good names on source dogs.
Take a look at mine. My most recent litter is my N litter.
If I named them all fancy names since 2006, I would drive myself crazy trying to come up with names.