The owner of my sires 4 yr old litter mate (brother).
wants a puppy (female) from my Sire and Dam to breed back to his Sire.
For some reason my brain cant register this. Not Show dogs just Hunting (Akc) stock.
Thank You In advance

Professionals call it line breeding. Laymen call it inbreeding.

Sometimes there is very small difference between line breeding, and inbreeding.

Soooo is it ARKANSASish LOL
or frowned upon. Or just dont do it? seems to close for me.

I have found it depends on the quality of the dogs, and the offspring.
When it works its considered a good thing. If it goes bad, then its not.
One of my best dogs was highly line bred, coefficient breeding was in the mid 30s.

Both dogs need to have the qualities your trying to replicate (doubling up on genes).
If one doesn't, it should be excluded from the breeding program.
Why some people don't like it, is because you also take a chance of bringing out bad qualities.
You never want to breed siblings, or mother/father to one of their offspring. You need to have at least one breeding separating them. There is also Back breeding. Its where you breed back to a great grandfather.
Most of this stuff is done with highly titled dogs, and not your everyday hunting buddy. It takes a person with a lot more knowledge than me. Its also not for the softhearted, as you could find yourself needing to cull puppies.

Line breeding is the only way you can reliably clump groups of genes together to shift the population in the direction the breeder wants to. If you did a bunch of breedings to everyone out of your line (outcrosses) (like in humans) only then you tend to spread the gene groups out in your population and breed to the middle. Usually it is impossible to improve the population the way humans breed.

Hmm, we seem to be getting bigger stronger and faster, and better lookng. Humans must be doing something right.

Probably getting dumber though.

10/4 thanks for the input.

Right on, The biggest bull elk or deer would not think twice about breeding his daughters and in doing so will pass his good genes. Many a good line has been lost by making an outcross.

I have a 7 yo English Setter male that is everything I want in a birddog. Smart, beautiful, and birddog supreme. I have a hunting buddy that owns a daughter out of his full litter mate sister. She is a super talented young dog herself. Would this be too close genetically to breed? I think not but I want to hear thoughts and opinions.

Your going to get half that say it to close, and others that say its not.

I don't think it is.

Having said that, I would ask a couple of breeders for their opinions on the matter.

Try it. If it works and you get what you want keep breeding them. If it doesn't work out put the pups down and don't do it again. I'll bet it works out well.

Not at all. Perfect linebreeding Arkansas style Uncle and niece.

They'll be linebred if it works and inbred if it don't.

Poisonivie beat me to it. A buddy of mine says if the pups turn out good its considered line breeding.
I find the genetics fascinating even though I sometimes don't understand it completely. What is interesting is so many people want to breed to A championship Stud when that is the opposite of what you should do. You should be breeding to the DAM and her bloodlines.
Here is an interesting article if you care to be educated a bit

http://www.westwindgsps.com/motherlines.htm

That was a good read. I also really enjoy reading those old time breeders and their insights.