Ready Made Line Or Started From Nothing

[workworkwork 19]

Just wondering how many lads out there started with a 'ready made' line of terriers and how many of you started with a terrier bought in from unproven parentage?

[leethedog 3,071]

I started a couple of years back with a black dog off a bushing lad and it's been a very bumpy road with him

 

Edited to add if I could go back I wouldn't buy him again but saying that I will stick at it with him coz it's just starting to look up

Edited November 7, 2016 by leethedog

[workworkwork 19]

I started with a bitch from unknown breeding then bought a dog in from worker to worker breeding. As time past i got to know a few lads who kept a decent line and its progressing from there. If i could of skipped those early years i would be in a better position now but perhaps i was better making my mistakes with those dogs and then and not now with pups with more potential

[howdeeposxxt 1,448]

I think alot of us started with bits and bobs no shame in it very few inherited a line I would think.

[leethedog 3,071]

I've been lucky enough to meet a few genuine men and have been gifted pups sent to me from southern Ireland at no cost at all and have very high hopes for the future and am eternally grateful

[howdeeposxxt 1,448]

The way it should be.

[downsview 448]

Worker to worker can trace some of my present dogs ancestry back to dogs I had a few generations back but in no way would I call it a line,ive seen some of the better known line bred dogs perform and to be honest the performance was no better than my loosely bred worker to worker stuff,sometimes I think all this detailed attention to line breeding and ancestry is for the anoraks of the working terrier world.

[workworkwork 19]

The performance might not be any better but from what ive seen its the percentage of workers that comes from a decent line that makes the difference

[downsouth 7,665]

I was very lucky that when I started in terriers as a lad still at school one of my good mates had an uncle that lived with them who's dogs all either came from or were bred from dogs he got from Ken Gould and I got my first ones from him.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

I know of several lads who now have a decent line from scatter bred beginnings through hard work and hard culling .When I was gifted my start I hadn't a clue what a line was or how to go about it but luck and a good group of mentors saw to it I soon appreciated what I had and the way forward .I sometimes think I was cheated out of all the heartache years lol, others had through trying this and that ,I saw it .My advice to anyone starting out would be to say nothing ,source some decent stock and work it .Only you will know whether something is worth breeding and don't just rely on a name for breeding as we all know where that gets you .Work it breed it ,cull the shit and turn back in .