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Originally Posted by Mikael
Generation 1 (F1) = 50% Wolf blood
Generation 2 (F2) = 25% Wolf blood
Generation 3 (F3) = 12,5%Wolf blood
Generation 4 (F4) = 6,25% Wolf blood
Generation 5 (F5) = 3,12% Wolf blood CsV wery little Wolf Content Wolfdog.
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This works only if you take wolf and several GSD and then cross the wolf with one GSD, cross the F1 with second GSD, cross the F2 with another GSD and so on. BUT the crossing of CSW was different. I don't remember it exactly, but I know that there were CSW/GSD and CSW/wolf crossing later, and lot of F3/F3 pairings, or CSW/F3 pairings (if by CSW you understand >F3) etc., so you cannot calculate linearly. For example, my first bitch had wolf in the 4th generation (directly in the paper pedigree) twice and three times in the 5th generation, always as a pair to a CSW or F3 bitch. Unfortunately now the database does not work completely and I don't have complete pedigrees available, but otherwise you would be able to see that it indeed does have quite a lot of wolf blood, because the last wolf was added later than the last GSD.
But as I said before, all these numbers do not mean anything real. It only means that for example if there is a gene which is completely unique for wolf, which every wolf has and no dog has, that a 20% content CSW has a 20% probability that it has the same gene, and that is valid
only if there was absolutely no selection (natural or by breeders) for or against this gene. If the creators of the breed liked this gene, than CSW has very high probability that it has the gene (like light eyes, good coat, etc), if not, than it has low probability (shyness, inability to communicate with strange people).