EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

G'day all,

got here 3.30 saturday and delivered BMC's to cousin.  Tried them on a pig this morning we found out on the oat crop and they went great, one little female was the standout and bayed the sow under the tuck for about 30 minutes.  I went out on daylight just behind the housewithout the curs and got two good boars.  BMC's get first look at cattle this afternoon, staytuned.

cheers

Troy and Baden
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you sure those arent cows??? nice pigs glad they are workin

Nice hogs, and dogs

thats awsome good to hear they working out for ya

quite busy just time for a short update, worked the bmc's on some cows yesterday, two are started and the other one unstarted, man they can work, none of them have a great handle yet and we had to yard the cattle to catch the dogs...awesome natural ability...we couldn't be happier

np pigs this moring going again tonight

cheers

T

Very cool, look forward to reports

Sounds like an impressive first glance!
Happy Days.  8)

pigs a bit scarce this morning took some photos

Thoms Texas Drift she is a Thoms Gato X Thoms Colorado cross

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now thats a fine looken dog!!!

Wrights cattle crush

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Thats one of the better built Wright dogs ive seen,  nice

went out again yesterday afternoon and got two sows, my old pigdog went miles to get them and we ended up jogging for about 1.5 hrs, I caught one of the largest sows I've ever got, if not the largest, it was hard taking the curs as they are not kangaroo proof yet so I just had the one female on a lead, she went well.

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I really like that cattle crush dog he's a looker for sure. I never thought about the dogs trashing on a kangaroo. Probably wouldn't take long for a dog to break itself off em after getting boxed up by one of those suckers. :D

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How hot is it getting on yall down there Troy? Glad to hear the Yeller updates keep em coming bud.

officially its winter but warming up for an early spring, about 26deg c not sure what that is in farehenheit, nice and warm, going out again this afternoon, pigs here are big but we hope to get some photos tomorrow....

kangaroos.....they kill more people than road accidents....... ;D ;D ......scared to think what they'll do to an expensive BMC....no not really just don't want them disappearing after roos all day..its something we are pretty hard on...

cheers

Troy and Baden

Troy,i am really enjoying your updates. I am a fellow aussie living now in the states where i manage the brewster ranch. I only hunt bmc's and your dogs are built just about the way i like one. As much as i love to run my bmc's on pigs over here my choice of dog for gathering brush cattle is a catahoula,just got me a pair of bobtail pups from a good line of cowboy dogs and have started them on some cattle twice. Keep the pics coming and good luck with the dogs.

its been tough hunting but got a couple this morning

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connie baying

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Good built dogs, you did real good gettin' those...  great pics!  Keep them coming!!!

Great pics.

Just curious here not trying to say anything, I just like to learn about different folks styles of hunting. But I noticed you guys aren't running any sort of cut gear on the dogs in these pics. Is that normal there? Do y'all ever run them with any? Hope i'm not coming off wrong i'm just curious.

Nice action pics

Some very nice dogs. and Pictures

Waylon

i can't wait to se'em bayed on a set of slick cattle !

Pups look good troy. Do you have them all working yet?

g'day,

no mate, we've worked 3 of the 4, one has just had 3 puppies, so far we are very impressed, they are all just youn started dogs though and need manners, handle and an "off" switch inserted, that will take time and work, but as for natural working ability they are consistent with what we where told and we couldn't be happier......  stay tuned...

home now though...very tired after a 2500km round trip....will post over the next few days as we have more photos that I think 'yall will enjoy..

Troy

So did the dogs jump the hogs and have a several mile race or did they trail it for miles and them find it and bayed it??

The old black female on the right of the photo found the pig, when we were nearly back at the truck, she tracked it to some timber and then had trouble stopping it, shes got a good nose but lacks speed these days.  Her best is behind her.  We eventually got my stag female there and she caught it.  It was a huge afternoon on foot as the march floods ruined a lot of roads, walking is the only way around.  We had caught two pigs before that one and walked 4-5 miles, all the dogs were hot and tired.  I only had one cur on a lead and I let her go when we got close, she went straight to the head and bayed, she caught a little as well.  Hope that answers your question?

Troy

Why dont you have a rokon bike or utv or a hunting mule for that big open type county, I never seen atvs or mules used down there or even horses hog hunting, why is that???

plenty of guys using quads here for hunting, badens was broken down is all, as for UTV's they are getting more popular but the country we were hunting was very rough as it has been blade ploughed years ago, not sure you'd ride a quad over it...as least not too far....

the other reason you might not see quads that much here is the distances involved..some hutning spots...e.g. creelkines might be 20km apart.....can be a pain to load and reloade quads all the time...sometimes just easier to drive and then a quick walk around a dam etc

cheers

T

Hi all, i have the the male and 2 females left with me after Troy left on friday, what a big week getting used to the BMC's and there style of working. They were very impresive striat up, went to the lead on  mob of cattle and bayed some hogs first go. They have alot of natural instinct that seems hard to turn -off, yesterday i let them out to have a run and they buggered of and i found them baying my brood mares out from the house. Bloody tough to, took "Crush" with me all day in back of ute checking waters around station, got late in afternoon and thought i'd let him off for a drink (bloody hot day), nothin, straight past water trough to work cattle.
Starting to wonder if this is a lack off handling at young age or our BMC's so driven by instinct that it is something i need to let them have but just need to be able to get a handle on.
Cheers
Baden 

Baden,
With high drive young head dogs on cattle you can work on your handle after they are tired, real tired. Let them get a settled bay on a good set of cattle and let them work, circle and hold the cattle. They should be able to do this for hours, let them. When the bay is very settled and the dogs are tired they will be able to hear you and you can work on calling them out and taking them to water. When a head dog first engages stock they are nearly unable to respond to your commands untill they have the stock settled. I never try and call a young dog out of stock untill they are well settled.