After looking at boerboel pedigrees for a few years now what i am beginning to be a bit concerned. A very high percentage of boerboels here in the untied states have the names Lourina Mac and Donkerhoek Kaalpoot in the pedigree. These were very popular sires in their day. The blood was so highly valued that Lourina Mac boerboels and Donkerhoelk kaalpoot dogs bred to the brothers and sisters back and forth on their sons granddaughters and grandsons back to the grandmother.
Fast forward to today and you see the offspring from these matings breeding between each other. Look up any of the pedigrees of your favorite boerboels and I bet you that they end up mentioning the above at least 2 times.
Now I hope that we are not already suffering from inbreeding depression in this breed but it is the truth. as we begin to lock and settle in type history has shown us when breeding dog that you also lock in bad traits sometime hidden disease or illness that cannot be see by the eye.
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