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"There is hope and dream and fairy dust in every well
thought-out plan..."
 | Breeding is a three-legged stool:
 | Reproductive soundness -- we want to breed easy
keepers, bred naturally, whelped naturally, with no chemical or
artificial help. We want hardy bitches and thrifty puppies
-- not to say we won't go to great lengths to save the life of a
bitch or puppy.
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| Structural soundness -- we only breed bitches
who can do their jobs in harness, in the show ring, and on the
couch. No Malamute is perfect, but an unsound dog in
harness will be an unsound dog on your leash. Our chosen
studs are all proven in some way or another -- in harness, in the
show ring, or in obedience, and preferably in all three.
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Temperament soundness -- stability,
friendliness, willingness, heart. Our dogs are Malamutes,
which means they won't necessarily be best friends with every
strange dog they meet. But they will adore their families,
even if that doesn't mean slavish obedience, it will mean
devotion and bonding, in the exquisite... persnickety...
outrageous... devoted... Malamutey way. Our studs &
dams have FABULOUS temperaments or they don't get chosen...
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Balanced on top of that stool is Type -- the things
that make a Malamute a Malamute and not a Siberian Husky, a Samoyed,
or a Saint Bernard. These are things like heavy bone, large
feet, broad backskull, board muzzles, furry erect ears, tails
carried like a plume over the back, double coats...
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| We strive to breed by Assortive
Mating for genetic diversity - our studs are genetically unrelated
to our bitches (as much as possible), but they all contribute to the ideal dog that lives
in our heads, so we end up with bitches who look very similar to
each other but are genetically very different. |
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Inbreeding/Linebreeding are common practices
in the dog world. We will very carefully consider a
linebreeding between, for instance, two dogs that are half Wayeh
each -- they share a grandmother/great-grandmother, but their sires
are both outcrossed to the Wayeh lines.
--------Snow Song's Rider
----Wayeh's Snowman
--------Wayeh's Summer
------------Wayeh's
Justice
Possible 1/2 Wayeh to 1/2 Wayeh Litter
--------Masasyu's Charles
----Wohali's Storm
--------Wayeh's Faith
------------Wayeh's Hope
----------------Wayeh's
Justice
*The dog in common is back several
generations, while Snow Song is an outcross to Wayeh, Masasyu
is an outcross to Wayeh, Snow Song would actually be an
outcross to Masasyu, but all together, Snowman X Storm is a
linebreeding only on Justice .
Or two dogs that are uncle X niece, but with the
same pattern of outcrossing, and the common ancestor would be the
grandmother & great-grandmother, herself OFA Excellent, in a
pedigree of OFA Excellent outcrosses:
--------Artic Luv's Yogi (OFA Excellent)
----Wayeh's Amak (OFA Excellent)
--------Wayeh's Singer (OFA Excellent) 10-gen COI 1%
Possible Uncle X Niece Litter, 10-gen COI 9%
--------Wayeh's Maestro (OFA Excellent)
------------Wayeh's
Singer (OFA Excellent) 10-gen COI 1%
----Wayeh's Music (OFA Excellent prelim)
--------Black Ice's Hannah (OFA Excellent)
*What to do after a linebreeding like these...
well find another outcross stud who looks like that ideal dog of
course.
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It's a science (not ignorance, not superstition)
that generations of inbreeding creates inbreeding depression which affects not only litter
size and thriftiness, but also long-term health. Outcrossing is no
panacea, but it also doesn't concentrate deleterious genes the way
inbreeding does. Judicious outcrosses, to researched bloodlines,
is a lot harder method than pairing up cousins. But the hoped-for result
is a healthy AND beautiful dog. (See The
Canine Diversity Project.)
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Definitions:
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Co-efficient of Inbreeding (COI) is generally figured
on a 10-generation pedigree. An algorithm checks to see how closely
related the sire and dam are to each other. Under 7% is an outcross.
Over 7% is inbreeding. |
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Co-efficient of Relationships (COR) is how much
influence a particular dog should have on the breeding. If the
maternal granddam has a COR of 43% and the paternal grandsire has a COR of
26%, you can forget about him, you probably won't see him in the whelping
box. But you had also better pay attention back in the 5th, 6th, etc
generations if you have a dog like Uyak Buffalo Bill in the 6th generation
for only 23% but he occurs 49 times... You'd better love Bill, because
he's got a HUGE influence on that breeding. (See Sno-Storm
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Inbreeding is something we consider carefully.
Genetic health is as important as temperament, performance, health, and type.
Outcrossing for the sake of outcrossing will gain a breeder nothing. But
as with inbreeding, breeding similar style to similar style produces more consistently than
breeding 2 different styles together. Our goal is to outcross our bitches
consistently to the same style of stud, and with an eye to improving her faults and not
loosing what we love about her strengths.
And we intend to build our kennel on bitches. After 19 years under
Billie's stewardship, Wayeh was handed to Liz and Sidney, who started over with
half sisters Summer and Hope
(10-gen COI 25 & 28% -- 6th generation Wayeh), both linebred on littermates Yuke
and Cherokee (10-gen COI 16% - Kiwaliks/Uyak/Tobe). Hope's daughter Faith
was further linebred, so we knew we were going to be looking at Assortive Mating
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structurally similar dogs who were not genetically related. In other
words, we would be inbreeding on type, not pedigree -- phenotype, not
genotype.
1999
Rider (COI 7%, SnowSong = Mals-About/Sarge/Wild
Wind)
X
Summer (COI 25%, 6th-gen Wayeh = Kiwaliks/Uyak/Tobe)
- Singer & Snowman (COI 1%)
born 11/21/1999
An outcrossed dog to an inbred bitch, an outcross breeding for longevity, temperament, pigment, &
leg. Rider's parents lived to be 10 and 13. His grandparents
lived to be 10, 10, 10, & 12. Rider, his siblings Gale and
Elric are almost 11 years old (2/05) and going strong. |
2000
Cherokee (COI 18%, 2nd-gen Wayeh)
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Hope (COI 28%, 4th-gen Wayeh)
- Faith (COI 37%) born 2/2/2000
Last 100% Wayeh inbreeding, grandfather to granddaughter. This was
an oops. Who knew 11 1/2 year-old Cherokee still had it in him to
sire a litter? He lived to be over 12 years old. Hope will
be 10yo 2/05 and is active in her roll as a therapy dog. |
2002 (Breeding by Wohali)
Charles (COI 3%, Masasyu = Kohoutec X
Baylor/Barrenfield/Northeast)
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Faith (COI 37% 5th-gen Wayeh)
- Storm
(COI 5%) born 10/31/2002
An outcrossed dog to an inbred bitch, with similar
type in 4/4 of the pedigree. Charles and sibs Bomber & Corsair are
nearly 9yo and their dam Hannah is still ruling the roost @ 13yo. |
2003
Charles (COI 3% Masasyu = Kohoutec X
Baylor/Barrenfield/Northeast)
X Singer
(COI 1%, SnowSong X Wayeh)
- Sunny & Maestro (COI 3%) born 9/9/2003
An outcross to an outcross, but 3/4 of this pedigree has the same type.
Hoping to add Snow Song pigment, leg, and feet to the 2002 breeding head
and type. See Charles & Hannah notes above. |
2005
Nikko (COI 16% Totem)
X Singer (COI 1% Snow Song X Wayeh)
- Sera-nade (COI 2%) born 2/23/05
Nikko's pedigree doubles on Laz & Ready (as Charles' pedigree
does). Should strengthen Singer's head, bone, coat, and tail set.
Nikko's sire finished his CH @ 8yo, & is still going strong.
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2006
Maestro (COI 3% Masasyu X SnowSong-Wayeh)
X Kayobi (COI 1.8% Totem X Rose of Sharon)
- Parka (COI 4%)
We bred Maestro's dam to Kayobi's sire, (2005
NikkoXSinger) and loved the results so this
time we are adding in Tessa's Sir Charles and Rose of Sharon's Ruby
Shoes. The COI goes up because Charles (Maestro's sire) is a
cousin of Nikko (Kayobi's sire).
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