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It wasn’t a whole lot of hunting but it was catching. Land owner sent me a video yesterday of a group of hogs in his bottom. So this morning Deputy Dawg and myself went out there. Ray started rigging as soon as we drove in the gate. I got out and all three of my dogs were locked in, staring to the north. Deputy Dawg said there the hogs are. They were just getting ready to go the brush about a 1/2 mile up the hill. We just let them go from the truck. These hogs a runners! The bay dogs get up there and start baying and then it’s silent. I said let’s wait here for a minute because there’s a good chance something is going to come off that hill heading to this bottom. Sure enough, like we were rattling a feed sack, here comes a tush hog. I mean you could see the pearls from way away. My buggy was still on the trailer and Ranger was on top of it. Deputy Dawg was waiting right in the hogs path. The hog got within 20-25 yards and he sent Rusty so I sent Ranger to help. Rusty missed and The race was on. Ranger was step for step and right on the hogs hip but not able to make any gain to ear him. Ole Rusty has wheels though. That 85-90# of red bulldog ran right past Ranger. I believe I heard him say watch out ole son let me show you how it’s done. They weren’t over 30-35 yards from the truck and Mr Boar was eared up on.  I’m the mean time the dogs were bayed up on the hill. We tried to open field two more boars but just weren’t close enough to beat them to the woods. They were only 180ish. The one we caught was 200+. We went to the bay and they had a sow caught in a tank. We put Ranger on a fishing line and reeled them to the bank. In about 5 minutes Ava and Dilly were bayed again at almost 600 yds. We get there and send the catch dogs but the hog broke. He went to the bottom and they had him bayed again. We caught him and load up the dogs. They didn’t want to quit but we weren’t going to press our luck. We were both hot but the dogs wanted to keep rolling so we made them come in. It wasn’t much for teaching the dogs anything but it was fun and easy.


First boar 200# maybe a little more

100# sow maybe a little bigger.
3rd hog was 180ish boar


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T and his crew got a toothy fella this morning.

Thanks Reuben, glad to see you’re still around and hear from you.


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Same here...thanks

So far so good on 10 head.


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Thanks Reuben, glad to see you’re still around and hear from you.


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T-DOG...you are right...todays dog foods do have all the extra vegan nuts and grains that supposedly are healthy but not so...the cheap dogs food from yesteryears did have lots of grain, peas and soy were not in the ingredients...below i copied off copilot...

5. Foods That DON’T Cause This Problem
Breeders who want reliable heat cycles avoid soy and heavy grains.

They typically use:

Victor Hi‑Pro Plus

Purina Pro Plan Sport

Diamond Naturals Beef & Rice

Native Level 3 or 4

Raw or fresh diets (if done safely)

These avoid the estrogen‑mimicking ingredients.

6. The Mechanism (Step‑by‑Step Logic Chain)
Soy + flax + corn → high phytoestrogen load

Grain batches sometimes → zearalenone contamination

These compounds → mimic estrogen

The dog’s body thinks it’s already in a hormone cycle

Real estrous cycle gets suppressed

Female barely comes into heat or has silent heat

  No Slim, I never do that, reason being I want to know for sure whether they have tied or not. I will leave them together to get acquainted a couple of hours checking on them every 20 minutes or so if they haven't bred yet. But usually after the first breeding they will be tied in just minutes, then I come back and separate them.

 I had a Plott female that was the same way Mike, really wanted pups out of her and never got them.

  One other female that I have just happens to be the mother of that Cypress female. she has had two normal litters and now she will act like she is coming in heat, drip a little blood for a couple of days and thats it. Will not flag or show any interest in a male. All my other females seem to have normal cycles. A hereditary  deal maybe except all my dogs are related top and bottom. Another thing I have noticed, none of my females ever come in heat around 9-10 months. The seem to come in around 15-16 months of age.

Driving and didn’t get to read over everything yet, but didn’t see it mentioned at a glance. Are you letting these dogs live together through duration of heat?
Sometimes a lady demands a long courtship before they’ll bed down with a man.


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