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How are Goose and Tiny bred?


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Goose is sketch x your Ray. Tiny is out of some cow dog blood.


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You and the dogs did real good, that kill shot is epic. That boar is a real one.

How are Goose and Tiny bred?


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Little fun new for us that’s developed this week as well. We believe we have the next generation of leopard dogs on the way. Believe Tim got his Goose and Tiny dogs crossed. Tiny is starting to show bred after living with goose for last 3 months.


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That is weird. I’ve run hogs hard enough to stroke them. I’d imagine a cold plunge while actively heat stroking would be bad medicine.


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That’s a good hog. I’m glad you got him. Water you say! The water has presented some interesting circumstances for us this year. We bayed some hogs 80 yards from a tank yesterday. A boar about 200# broke ran straight to the tank. He made in about 10-12 feet out and went under once , back up, back under, then belly up and dead. Just that fast. It happened to us two other times this year. Once cost me Outlaw and the other was a hog that had been running hard and hit the water in pond that was completely covered by shade all day. I can kinda see those two but this one was weird.


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Went looking for a problem boar in the rain yesterday evening/night. Misty and Spoon were good for it, plus some. Bayed a good boar at last light, a pasture over from the one we were looking for. Coming back through the correct pasture afterwards headed for the house.

Dogs rigged his bed now that it had finally quit raining. Hissed them on and they mad a big loop out around us and found him headed for water. Once he realized he was had, he was headed for his exit, but spoon and misty just wasn’t having it.

Got a little sporty, but them leopards and me stay hooked.
This got to be the biggest head I’ve ever seen on a wild hog. He weighed 250-260 and his head was 50 of it id bet. He knew how to use that head too. Sucker punched a hole straight through the field fence to get in the pasture he was in.





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When you say it like that it sure makes it sound like a crap shoot.

My dogs are pretty good about giving in to the bark collar, even my bulldogs. They all let it rip when I go hook up the trailer or keep barking when I only load some of them. I think they settle down pretty quick after I’m gone though.


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  I don't believe it is possible to really figure it out to the absolute, they tell me there are in excess of hundreds of thousands of possibilities in a single mating. I'm surprised we can get as good of percentages as we often do.
  I have some that are extremely hardheaded and some pretty mild mannered in both breeds. But the majority of them will for quite some time bark through a bark collar here at home. I lay that off to being high drive, like if I hook up the trailer or move the truck and trailer or ring the bell to call up the horses the dogs are gonna raise cain. My wife has to go out and settle them down anytime I load part of them and drive off.
 

I agree Clue. The biggest difference in yours and Cajun’s lines vs mine is other people would like y’all’s. Mine just suit me lol.

Genetics are a funny thing, just when you think you have it figured out, you figure out you don’t. My dad has had game chickens all his life. I grew up watching and listening to him about what he was trying to accomplish and how he went about it. Birds and mammals have some differences when it comes to reproduction, but there are a whole lot of things that parallel each other too. One thing he always told me was that whatever you put in is ALWAYS going to be there, good or bad. He said you can breed away from it by selection but it is still going to be there. He said it may not show up again for a long time but eventually it will and it’s usually at a time when you can least afford it to. So I’ve always considered the shortcomings of dogs in the sense of could I deal with or accept that short coming if I got more dogs with it. For example some of my dogs can be shy or sensitive. If you are a heavy handed handler, they might not work well for you. I don’t mind it so much because it seems to accompany a willingness to please mindset. If I have a dog that starts trashing for some reason, it’s usually easy to break them without having to be hard on them. It’s better for me and them. I also consider that if I breed to one that is sensitive. I sure won’t breed two that are sensitive together. My Ava gyp is sensitive. If we are hunting and someone goes to getting onto their dog, she will come find me. All I do is rub her on the head and reassure her that she isn’t in trouble and she gone hunting. I feel like my dogs have been bred for hogs long enough that breaking them from hogs is a lot harder than other game or cattle. I think the sensitive, wanting to please trait is a cur thing. Most hounds aren’t that way. They do what they do for themselves and because it’s what they want to do whereas the curs want to do it as much for you as they do themselves. Both mindsets have their advantages and disadvantages. Another thing I have noticed about my family of dogs is in the females. My dogs are usually consistent in the sense of working. When they perform they usually give a consistent performance each trip. With my females though, they will be rocking along and then all of a sudden throw a wrench in their performance. Not necessarily sorry but definitely not on their game, and sometimes yes they are sorry. This is usually an indication that they are fixing to come in heat. I assume their hormones get stirred up and throws them off. I can almost guarantee you within a week or two they are going to be in after that. I don’t know if y’all’s lines are like that, but in a certain way I like it because I know to start watching. Again, genetics have created the consistent pattern. Another thing my dad taught me was in watching his baby chicks. Sometimes a hen would have a clutch of chicks and one or two of them would always be chirping. It would always be the same ones doing and for no rhyme or reason usually. He would tell me, that chick is a cull. Something isn’t right with it. He was right too. Those chicks were usually the first to get sick, the ones that were wild natured and nervous, or just didn’t perform in any way comparable to the others. I believe you can see these type things in dogs as well. Sometimes an old hen will peck and fight at those chicks that are off because they know they aren’t right. Dogs will also separate pups that have something wrong with them. I definitely pay attention to how my gyps interact with their pups.


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