That sounds wild


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Man I bet that was loud with that many dogs in one area! I know here we have some corn fields that are big enough for dogs to be out of hearing without leaving it, but that sounds like a lot of hounds. When I was hunting row crops, I found that more dogs was better and more bite seemed to help. The dogs get fanned out in there and it makes it a little harder for the hogs to slip around. Those hogs would break and run down a row and then all of a sudden duck over a couple of rows  and stand still. The dogs would pass them and they would go back the direction they just came from. More dogs made that a little harder. More bite helped catch the smaller type stuff and keep the bigger ones that could be convinced to stand to stop and stand. The ones that couldn’t be convinced usually left the corn and to me that was better for me and the dogs.


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I’ve probably told it on here before but I had a buddy that raised lots of dogs, greyhounds. They used ivermec as well. Their worming regime was super strict. He said they would worm a gyp two weeks into her pregnancy with 2cc of ivermec under the skin or subcutaneously. They got the same dose 2 weeks before delivery. He said his pups were born big and healthy and he had way less trouble with parvo. He was the second VERY experienced dog man to tell me that keeping your dogs clean of internal parasites played the biggest factor in them getting or not getting parvo. The first guy told me that if I did that, that I wouldn’t even have to give parvo vaccines. He said that the only dogs that would contract it would be the really weak ones with super poor immune systems. He said you don’t want those in your pack anyway. He also said that unless the dogs were insanely tight bred or truly pure bred, that you wouldn’t likely see those types too often. My greyhound buddy said that even though he had lots of parvo until they figured this out that he wouldn’t even vaccinate for parvo and all the other stuff. The only reasons he did was because he boarded and whelped other people’s gyps and should they get parvo or anything else he didn’t want them to be able to say anything. The other reason was because the pups would leave his facility and then he had no control over how clean they were kept. If they left and weren’t kept clean they wouldn’t have a chance. I started using his method and I didn’t give vaccines for several years and never once had parvo. I started back to vaccinating because I brought home and unclean pup that got mine sick too and like Cajun and my buddy said, you don’t what they are going into when someone else gets them. Stress comes in many forms and is often times the catalyst for sickness. Parasites and rehoming are probably the two biggest stressers in pups. I have a theory about stress. Think about all the people you know that have cancer. How many of them are a P.O.S? Probably none of them but if so it’s a low number. Those people don’t care about anything, not their bills, not their job performance, not how they treat other people, not God, nothing. They aren’t stressed because they don’t care. The good people tend to stress over most things to some degree, and other things to high level. They get tore down and end up sick. Maybe it isn’t cancer but it could be some other disease. I’ll give you an example. We had a family that were close family friends to us. They had a barbecue restaurant. One day the man was shot and killed in the doorway of the restaurant by another man over a property dispute. Naturally his wife was really tore up but she worked hard to keep the restaurant going to keep a roof over her and her 3 kids heads. Almost a year later she gets cancer. Now she has that on top of trying to make a living as a single parent with 3 kids. Well she beats it. A while later she meets another guy and things are going pretty good and he’s starting to help out with the business but her the cancer comes back. She beats it again. Now her and the guy get engaged a little while later. They buy a nice home together. It’s by far the nicest thing she ever lived in, definitely a far site better than the trailer she was living in that was literally falling apart. Things are going great and she walks out to the drive where the fiancée was changing a flat only to find him dead from a heart attack. Now she’s lost a second significant other, is thrown back into making a living for her and the three kids by herself. Not only that but the house she was so proud of gets taken because she couldn’t afford it alone. She’s back living in that trailer house that is in even worse shape now. She gets cancer again. This time she can’t beat it. She has to lay in her bed and worry about what is going to happen with her kids. The oldest was fixing to graduate high school and the youngest was in Jr High. Stress and worry killed her as much as the cancer did.

Cajunl, I’m going to give that a try myself. Thanks for the info.


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What medication are you using Reuben, ivermec?


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Cajunl, I use the Confortis and I buy the big pill and half it as well. Only my bulldogs get a whole one because they are usually 75ish pounds or more. I haven’t had any issues doing it that way. It averages out to about to about $8-$10 a dog. I didn’t have good luck with the conserve either.


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Dang that can sure hurt a fella’s feelings when he likes something like that and can’t keep it going.


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So you didn’t get the opportunity to do any line breeding with those dogs. They sound like my kind of dogs.


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Sounds busy and good for young dogs


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I listened to it earlier on. I enjoyed it except I missed the part where he talked about considering the introduction of some border collie to freshen those plott dogs up.


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Ole Lizzo is about as nice as you can ask for. She’s fast in the open and smart enough to ham one until it squats then move to the ear. In the brush she is super methodical, not just crashing in out of control and getting tangled up or busting the bay. She’s great natured as well. Being easy to live with is huge. That’s what my wife loves most about me.

Feeding those young dogs hog tracks is what makes the ones with want to. The ones without want to, well they’ll show themselves.


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It for sure get frustrating. A few hunts ago, Ava’s collar quit working. She was gone for a while and we had been in hogs so I figured she was bayed. After several hours Kohl got to where he could hear her and we were able to walk within ear shot and call her out of a place she didn’t need to be. It could’ve been a bad deal. I was just thankful for her discipline and Kohl’s young ears. I hate to call a dog off of a bay, especially when they’ve been there as long as she had.


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That sounds like educated hogs doing all that running to those other places. You gotta hate that. Glad y’all caught some in spite of the runners. We all get beat. Don’t let that bother you because y’all catch more than you lose for sure.


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Well it’s good to know the dogs are picking them up and putting them down on track. That’s the way I like a dog to drive a track.


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I love the pictures of those hounds singing on the boat. Cajun your description of Highwater and his boy is the exact picture I had painted in my head. I bet y’all had a heck of a time. You for sure caught some nice hogs.


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Man I don’t know about everyone else but I’m glad you caught under 20 head. I was starting to feel like a real amateur. I was thinking I probably needed to get on your puppy list. The good dogs are caught because they are in there getting the job done. The sorry ones are spectating so they aren’t accessible. I sounds like another good hunt though seriously. It sure sounds like that young plott has business on his mind. That is the number one ingredient in a good dog.


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Nice hunt Cajun.


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All those darn shoats will create that hog swapping. Sounds like they were doing their best to stop that. I hate the old dog had problems. If I had put on 20 miles you can bet I would’ve had a heart attack, low blood sugar, low blood oxygen, and anything else that could be low. Sounds like an educational hunt.


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That’s what he only way you’ll ever have the best or make them the best that they can be. IT’s having a standard and sticking to it. Lots of hunters these days don’t have them or stick to them.


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Money talks!


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It’s a good deal them working out and finishing that cold track. Sounds like that smaller second hog is an educated youngster. If it isn’t then it has an incredible get gone instinct because y’all would’ve caught up if it hadn’t. There will be another time.


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