EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

How hot does it have to get for you to stop running your dogs.

i quit running around 85 degrees.......ill get up sometimes around 4 and be out of the fields by 7. by then its already to hot to do anything anyways

Yeah that's what we are doing this time of year. Turning loose just as it gets gray in the east and making it a one and done most mornings. To hot to stay past 8.

I ain't found out yet. But I will only run them at night and watch them when it is hot. Make the hunt shorter and bring water. When the dogs look tired make them take a break. I am about to start an English Pointer because he can take the heat down here. I also wait until it is good and dark when it is in the upper 90's or 100's

I hunt nights mostly, but in the mornings we hunt daylight till bout 11 in 100 degree weather, I have a bird dog he takes the heat, the curs I load up and give frequent breaks and plenty of water

I think it depends on the dog, my smaller dogs I hunt pretty hard, my bigger dogs only hunt early morning

If there is alot of warter on the ground  I, will hunt them as hot as it gets. If no warter other than in the buggy I just try to pull them up by no latter than 10 am in the morning. Had one running and caught the hog a 1 PM in 102 degrees  the other day but got her cooled as fast as I could was not safe.
When I work cattle in Summer first thing I ask is where  IS  the stock tanks
will drive the cattle to the tanks and let the dogs drink alot of times before I go to the pens with them.

our dogs go two to three times a week whenever as long as u dont stop hunting and there is a good water source ur good cuz the dogs stay in shape

yup yesterday we hunted and got out there around 8 and didnt get back to the truck till one had one boar tied at 830 then got on a barr we got pretty close to see he was huge and real leggy so he could get it and everytime he broke he cut his own path through the dogs

jt dont forget make its own path under horses to

aint that the truth he ran right underneath luckys horse thought that could have been a wreck but i dunno if the horse was mor worried about the shanks in his side or the teeth on that barr

i think is was the shanks and leather he would have got if he moved or pitchd

lol ya it was crazy but fun that boar is still alive in that pen he was already trying to mount themsows and ate up all the damn corn we put out last night put damn near 50 pounds of it and other types of feed out

lol ya it was crazy but fun that boar is still alive in that pen he was already trying to mount themsows and ate up all the damn corn we put out last night put damn near 50 pounds of it and other types of feed out

well it must tast  better then that hay field he was riping up

damn right them inamtes(hogs) get treated right down here at the snakehole unit till we put some fresh pups in to work them that have a lil size and grit then sometimes they get a couple cuts but throw some at the dogs too i think i might do some pup trainin this evenin with that small boar cut him loose in the yard and let them 3-5 month old pups work
then maybe ill do some braggin lol .......well maybe ill just let the pictures talk unlike some ppl u know who i am talkin about lol

i always enjoy going with yall to watch them pups hunt and work.... Wat i like bout goin with yall is bc yall dont brag on the pups u let me see what they do in person......hows the workin hog pens workin out

ya man we let them dogs brag on thereselves or let other ppl brag ........ haha but ya we got to use that new shoot we built on the 5th yesterday and it worked dang good its better than having to untie them in the trailer then rope them again and stress them out alot u kno we just back up unload and let him sit in the holding pen a min then we cut him in with the other pigs we r just thinkin now of increasing the size by about two or tree more panels and putting that bigger goldfish tank in there for water so we can hold more head we'll see tho we got to get all the stuff first so who knoos i also wann build a good ladder to get over in there i just want to make sure these hogs are going to keep staying alive and i dunno how its going to be if we get two big boars in there together so i might have to build a double pen that i can sort them in and out of so they dont fight much

lol build a cat work across it..

hmm i dunno about all that that goes a lil too much but i would like a good platform and it would give the hogs somethin to lay under if they wanted i dunno just some ideas

Yall should buil  to the back fence and the side fence

that is exactly what we were talkin about and movin them houses cuz there is no dogs in them as of now lol

Yall call each other on the phone... this ain't a chat room. ;)

I would mr. Mike but the lives in the woods literaly.... Lol