Wagonmaster wrote: the "old lines" issue is a different thing. for lack of a better term, it is collective breeding to a type. a group of people (a breed club for example) breed to a specific desired type, and a "type gene pool" is created. linebreeding may be used to accomplish the "typecasting." history tells us that it takes many generations to change such a type, if it can be done at all without outcrossing. decades at least.
Germany has many different "types" of DK. When East joined West there became even more "types".
Each German State would have particular uses for their "type" and similarly breeders would have their own idea of "type" and their own type of hunting conditions.
So your old lines is not a different issue. It is same as everywhere.
