When I started breeding beagles I could not afford to spend much on dogs. I bought reasonably well bred bitch pups and young running bitches that didn't quite make it in field trials but were strong in some of the traits that I liked. I've always felt that hustle and aggressiveness culls most brace beagles so I was always on the lookout for easy working bitches. I then bred to what I considered the best studs available.I then took any bitch pup that was better than its dam and in turn line bred it on its sire. I culled the dam and any other bitches that didn't produce a bitch pup better than themselves. I usually bred my bitches on their first or second heat period in order to speed up the process. This way I could keep the numbers down and keep moving on to the next generation.

Out of about a dozen bitches I originally obtained, there was a Fd. Ch. Pearson Creek Carson bitch called Joe's Linda. She was the only one that produced a bitch pup better than herself and who in turn produced a line of bitches that were continually better than their dams. I continued to line bred her offspring on the best easy going advertised studs of the day. Whenever possible, I chose a stud who allready had a good son at stud so I could do a follow up breeding of the offspring as I really like half brother half sister matings. Black Lady was the fourth generation I bred from Joe's Linda. She was the first bitch that I felt was a good enough individual and producer to keep and continue breeding and eventually to inbred her offspring. Joe's Linda was the beginning of my bitchline; however, Black Lady was the foundation of the family.