Agreed agreed and agreed...if you are serious about breeding, find a mentor in the breed...someone who has been in it a long time, who produces high-quality dogs of the type you are looking for. Start to learn about what health issues you should be testing the adult dogs for, what to look for in an excellent match, and how to assess the puppies. Spend a few years learning from your mentor and attending events like conformation shows and herding trials, and soak up all of the information you can. (I was going to just say shows, but I know that in the BC world shows are a highly volatile issue, and some excellent breeders wouldn't let their dogs within a mile of a conformation show) Learn about conformation, health, temperament, drive, the ethics of breeding, etc etc etc...and also make sure you have enough money set aside so that if the bitch needs a c-section or some such she can have it promptly.

The reality is that there is a LOT of work and not necessarily much FUN in breeding dogs. Be aware that no pairing is a guarantee of anything, even if you have done all of the appropriate health and temperament testing you have only stacked the odds in your favor, you haven't guaranteed a litter free from health or temperament problems. Br prepared to keep, or euthanize, or spend a lot of money treating any such anomalies that pop up in the litter. You also, even with the appropriate genes present, have zero guarantees of producing the exact color/gender combo you want.

Frankly, if you don't think BCs are part of the overpopulation problem, you haven't taken a close look at it. Go to petfinder.com and search for BCs in your area. TONS of people get these dogs thinking they will be nice family pets, and then discover that they are driven driven driven working dogs that need to be DOING something. There are a LOT of BCs and similar breeds in rescue. Red tri is not a common color in BCs but it is also not terribly uncommon.

This woman breeds corgis, but her experiences and her vivid writing style paint an excellent picture of what responsible breeding looks like: http://rufflyspeaking.net/category/r...ible-breeding/