Bob Farris breeding scrutiny

Hunter and hunting dog breeder and trainer Bob Farris talks about the importance of lineage in his world…an area that demands scrutiny. Speaker2: I've got a guy, Frank Schmidt, that I turn all of my dog training over to. Now I have probably five years. I still go out with him a couple times a week. I supervise, he doesn't really need it, but I need to feel like I can lay my thoughts out as to how a certain dog's doing and what's needed. The dog world has changed a lot, and a lot of people don't realize how much it changed. And one of it is some of the software programs for breeders being able to calculate how close you're breeding a dog. If I have a female that I'm going to breed and she comes into heat, I usually look at at least three different males to breed or two, and I run the program on each of them, and I look at the coefficient of inbreeding of the three. The thing I don't want is to ever inbreed, and the software will definitely tell you that sometimes I'm looking to line breed. It also gives you the data on 2046 dogs on the pedigree, a calculation of the inbreeding. It also gives you the coefficient of relationship on every dog on the pedigree. And that's how much DNA is coming from, say, grandmother or grandpa or great grandpa. How much DNA is being contributed to those puppies? And it could be very little, or it could be quite a bit. And when you line breed, you want to make sure that all the heroes are given a good amount of coefficient of relationship.