Same here.

I think we said the same thing. Same flavor, different labels.

Time and knowing the dogs in the family. That is selection. If you bred a dog for a certain reason and you see that certain reason in his offspring that is the dog you are going with.

Does that mean he is the producer and his brother is not? Nope, not in the least. But we base that selection on personal knowledge.

The kicker is that his cur brother or sister that was culled may have been the producer all along.

I'm no breeder but the Mountain Man told us once as soon as guy tells you he knows how to breed dogs to get dogs, RUN!.

You do the best you can with what you have, select, and go from there.

And if it were easy tons of people would be making tons of money. But even then someone has to be proofing these dogs.

EWO