Thread: Korthals Griffon

Originally Posted by kawhia

new blood for the cesky won't really provide anything as world wide they are bottle necked and are using other breeds to try and fix the inbreeding problems, interesting the WPG, wirehaired pointing griffon, not the korthals is what they are using.

@kawhia this is interesting. If they were actually cross breeding into the 1950's as staled in the article wouldn't this have served as a quite broad genetic base? - although I guess 70 years of line breeding since would have channelled the breed into some tight genetics now.

How do the DD breeders work with this? Or does the larger population mean a larger gene pool (like with our sheep breeds)?

https://www.gundogmag.com/editorial/...-fousek/175470

Found this too which answers some of these questions, and says that the Cesky was used to improve the Griffon recently, not visa versa: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...l.pone.0221418