EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

I have only been running dogs for hogs for a year now so this might just be my opinion and I have noticed that female dogs seem to mature faster hunt beter and are alot smarter wat do yall think

your opinion is exactly rite in my opinion  ;D  i hunt females and prefer them to males . only reason i even hunt males is for a little muscle and tend to be a little more gritty [sometimes ] the hunters of the animal world has allways been the females do to the fact they have to raise their younguns ,most times without the help from the males . they start ,learn faster , and are alot less hard headed

I like gyps. Ain't nothing wrong with males, lord knows I own a few, but I seem to have better handle and mojo with gyps. People will say if you run all dogs you ain't gotta worry about estrous cycling but that ain't quite true as in my opinion, males are ALWAYS in heat. ;)

I agree with (males are always in heat ) I wouldn't take anything for my male, but I hate the way sometime he has to stop and piss on every other tree he passes. I mature female just does her job and ain't worried about all the other dogs.

I hate females lol they are a pain.  Like the hard headed males when you get through to them you have their total soul. 

Half beed my two female dogs are more gritty than my males one of my females is suicidle gritty and pure breed colt that aint always true I have a female dog that lives her life to hear me say good girl so I think that would mean I have here heart and soul but it just seems like male dogs are lost and confused alot

True critter I have a female like that also just for some reason like males.  Both jard headed I guess

i have both and gyps seem to work better at a young age but if you spend the time to get a male dog tuned up they work just as good as a gyp

Boy it's just the males you picked

Deer,rabbit,coon and all of the hog dogs I have owned I liked the females better,seem not to be as hardheaded and the males having to stop every 50 foot to pee on a tree drives me insane.

Yea male dogs seem to be alot less smarter but I have hunted with my dogs and other huntets dogs and most male dogs seem to have less drive and always worried bout sniffin everytings ass

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but when the males are bred right they don't go peeon every bush because they have hunting on there mind unless a female is in heat...that's another thread ;D

Like all of you I have had good dogs in both gender. I have had male dogs that would getting in a pissing contest that would turn into a fight, when I would intervene they would stop for a long while. I have had a few different sets of females that would try to kill one another on a very frequent basis that could not be hunted together, they did not care about me stepping in if you know what I mean. It seems to me that a hard headed, strong willed, dominant pair of dogs can come from either gender and they always seem to be really good dogs that you just don't want to get rid of.

a dominant dog does not necessarily mean the bravest against a big bad boar...sometimes the meek and weaker dog can be as courageous as a good catch dog.

I am not doubting your statement at all, but in my 30 plus years (like you) of dog training and horse training most of the time the dominant animal has the most drive.  I've had dominant bitches that I've culled due to the fact that they would try to fight to the death. So I'm not disputing you at all but like you I've been doing this a while and this has been my experience.

How can your trust something that bleeds for five days and don't die?!!!! J/K the best dog I had was a female started naturally and didn't care what another dogs was doing handle like a dream. I started out coon hunting with a big male treeing walker and from the get go he was trained and hunted by himself 80 percent of the time. He was independent would not honor another dog. They only problem I had with him was at a comp hunt in georgia  where somebody hunted a female in heat of the 4 dog cast 3 were gyps mine being the only male he told us she was in heat but covered her area with vicks and said she would be fine she was a jam up dog but that night she didn't leave the road staying right next to flagging her tail. I with drew and made a complaint. other than that i do think females handle better and start earlier nut put a male in the right situations and I have no preference. When worked with right they all work their butts off for you. Males may just need a bit more time to mature and a bit more handling but either will work for me if they do there job

Man not this subject again rolleyes I like to hunt females. I think they want to please me more. But I like males too. It is easier to get female puppies thanks to most people wanting the males. So you can get a better female easier in my limited opinion.

females tend to have a higher prey drive as a gender, as with anything there are good and and bad in any.Females do seem to mature faster and its nice not watching hackles up pissin matches. Ive cut a few cranky males this year that were very good hunters just butt heads about fighting i love it there woods burning machines now with no bs.  good dogs hunt what every gender

I have both on the yard and like the females the best , I prefer to run them with two male dogs and usually try to keep litter mates together . In doing this it feeds on  the natural need to compete . As everyone seems to agree to the female matures faster and the males  try to keep up with her. If I have any aggression problems the removal of the family jewels usually takes care of this. Out of the eleven dogs I own the females are the grittiest (excluding the bull dog ) and out strike most of the males.  Hun’t Um up!!!

I have both and like all of yall I have good and bad to say about both but if I could set it up exactly how I wanted I would like to have my three strike female(no missing contest) and all my help and cds( everything you dump to the bay) to be males(size and muscle)

in the last 20 yrs I've owned everthing kind of hunting dog there is and hunted game from rabbits to bears and hogs. I dont think a person can say that one gender is better than the other. Just hunt the ones that hunt and cull the ones that dont.

Ok, females are smarter... They mature sooner, hunt harder, are tougher, and they're better looking! Don't believe me ask my wife, lol!!!

They're great ones from both gender!!! They're culls from both sides? Friends are enjoying both genders from my last litter.

Fixed dogs hunt the same all of the time, good or bad... Heaven only knows I wish I had not fixed my dog!!!

Most dogs worth getting fixed are the ones you end up wishing you could breed  :-\

maturity and brains are usually a case by case kind of thing in my opinion. I have been in the woods with alot of good dogs and a handfull of great dogs. I've never seen a great dog of either gender that didn't think they were top dog. It wasn't that they were fighters, they were just gonna have things their way. I think hounds and curs mature at different rates and different families of both have tendency to mature faster or slower than the norm. I think genetics play the largest part in these traits. Where I think males and females are different is  in their tracking ability. As a rule of thumb, I beleive your females are a little less cold nosed but carry a track alot faster. I think males are a little colder nosed and might not carry a track as fast, but there are always exceptions to the rule. I know at one time, the TDC man dogs were ran in packs of all males or all females. If they were hunting a fresh track, they normally used the female pack because they would put more pressure on the person with their fast tracking. If they were hunting an older track, they used the males because they were usually colder nosed and more thurough. Of course heat cycles were another reason for gender packing too. These have been my observations over the years.