What is the significance, if any, of “Blood Lines” in a Llewellin Setter?
One cannot become interested in the breeding of any species of animal very long before the question of “blood lines” comes up.
In pedigreed stock, the assumption is often made that those animals bearing the same ancestral names as part of the registered pedigree are in fact of the same blood lines.
What are meant by blood lines are presumably specimens sharing common ancestry and therefore having common genes. Popular ideas are that breeding animals sharing the same blood lines will be a positive thing and ensure that traits will be continued or strengthened. (Read on …)
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