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That is why the apprenticeship relationship among breeders is so very important- With those years of servitude comes access to good breeding stock. So the second generation gets a PhD level education and then use or pick of some oyagoi prospects. What he then does with those prospects comes down to skill, good luck and breeder talent.
Today, I think the greatest threat to continued improvement of Japanese stock does not lie in the spread of KHV or frequency of natural disasters but rather from :
1) the erosion of the apprenticeship approach.
2) the inclination to reduce the standards on culling. There still needs to be pride in commercialism. But when exporting, morality can sometimes take a hit as you never see the final consumer face to face.
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