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good deal clue, i got my two 18 mo olds going good over the holidays as well.

It makes sense that the female that got ran over was the best one. If she was sorry she would probably seem immortal. Nothing ever happens to the culls or lesser ones, it’s always the best one or the favorite. At least that’s how it works around here. Those high percentage litters are one of the keys to breeding success in my opinion. I always say I breed to a litter and not an individual.


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  The one female that got ran over out of the oldest litter "did" make it, may have been the best one of my 4. That was a very even litter ability wise very little difference in them.  There were 7 pups in that litter, the one that wasn't tough enough is the only one that has been culled and as I said earlier she had all the traits just wasn't tough enough. All of them but one had bayed their own hog before 1 yr old, not solo cast but off of split races. My 4 were the only ones that had a shot at bear, and they liked the bear. So no, I would not hesitate to breed their brothers, and for that matter the other 3 females of that litter that I don't own I could breed in a pinch. This litter was a high percentage litter.  There is only one of them I haven't hunted with, the man that owns her has high standards and loves her. HaHa there's a lot of math in this thread but there are 5 of them living and have a home.
 
 
 

I don’t want to take this thread off course, but my size preference is for control and leverage. I don’t want the umpa lumpa (sp) but a big athlete. I had a really good dog get crippled years ago by a caught hog. The catch dog was just too small to control the head. The hog was still slinging and slashing like there wasn’t a dog caught on him. I had another boar hog out run me across a pasture with my catch dog hanging onto his ear. Once I finally caught up, the hog just came to me like nothing had ahold of him. Luckily a bay dog showed up and drew his attention enough for me to leg him without getting caught myself. They both had a good bite or either of those hogs would’ve slung them off in one of the many attempts to do it. I have several more reasons for it but that’s the main reason.

I sure hate that most all your females didn’t make the grade. Will that have an impact on whether or not you breed their brothers at some point? Anybody that’s raised many pups has had that surprised disappointment with a mating that looked so good on paper. I know I have. One in particular comes to mind and it still eats at me even though I know 100% it was the male dog at fault.


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Sounds like a great hunt and some extra training for the young ones. Whether big or small, the bite is the most important trait on a catchdog. I also prefer the bigger ones but have had a couple over the years that were smaller but they had the bite.

NLA hunter I always hope they do good but run them through a pretty fine strainer. The bulldog is over the hump except for one hurdle, I want to see him take a thrashin and stay caught hard.

  Actually I had 10 (won't ever do that again), 4 of a litter I had raised here were the oldest, one of those didn't make the cut. She did everything well but was not tough enough, have one long hard day and was done for 5 more. Her sister got ran over a couple of weeks ago, so of those 4 I have the 2 males left.
  There were 4 younger ones from Alabama out of some females I'd sold several years ago, one of them bred to one of my males, the other bred to an outside male 3 of those didn't make the cut, I was very surprised but it is what it is. The one that has made it does quite well and he is off the outside male. The two out of my male were a big disappointment due to the fact their mama and daddy were both well above average and on paper looked like a potentially great cross.
  Then there is the 2 youngest ones that are stud fee pups I have started a little late due to just not being able to get to them often enough. The female looks really good at this point, the male looks good but not as sharp as the female, time will tell. There were 16 or 17 of these pups out of 2 females and by report as a whole they have done well. With so many of them little things matter.  I'm always looking for the top end of them.

That makes sense Oldman. I have neighbors as well. The one north of me has two white German Shepards that are about as annoying as two dogs can be. I sure don’t want to be that neighbor to anyone else. I don’t like a defiant dog, no matter the breeds these two quarter breeds aren’t as bad as the half breeds but it’s there still. For example I could get onto the half breeds and they’d just keep barking. When I’d go to get into them, they would turn and leave the gate but ok
back over their shoulder at you and give you another bark just to prove to you that they we’re going to get the last word in, they were both females so… I run all my dogs loose together during the day and at feeding time, I just say go get in your pen and they each one know what hole is theirs. They go get in there and wait for me to put the feed in their bowl before they stick their head in there to eat. I fasten the gate until everyone is done and then turn them back out. These crosses everyone are the only ones that don’t get in their kennel until I’m a hole or two away from it then they run over and get in. I have a 3 month old pup that is just my stuff and when I say go get in your pen she’s in a sprint getting there. So it aggravates me for a year old dog to not do it until I get onto them. They know to do it but are just going to do it on their time unless I force it. Sounds like a simple thing but to me it’s an alpha issue. I take it as being challenged. I don’t like having to prove I’m alpha every day.

This last year you had 4 young dogs, I think 2 out of your dogs and 2 that were out of your male or completely outside bred, I can’t remember which. Did they all turn out for you?


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Sounds like them young dogs are wanting to work for yall sounds like the bulldog may work out too

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 When I was given the bulldog I knew he came from the pound and though I didn't thoroughly inspect him I did not see any testicles and assumed he'd been castrated. Apparently he was younger than he looked because as time went by he "grew" testicles haha, I didn't figure he needed them.