My wife and I used to buy hound pups from an old man in Cushing Oklahoma years back when we first got married. He always had a yard full of hounds tied out. I asked him some questions once about his breeding program and he laughed me off and said he would unsnap a gyp when she was in heat and leave all the males tied out and what ever male she bred to so be. His pups always did make good hounds to, he also let pups run loose until they started treeing on there own, that was his training program for the first year or so, after that he would trash break them or sell them to men who hunted what ever the hound preferred, be it deer dogs, coyotes what ever. He sowre by the idea of letting the gyp choose her own male, kinda like the gyp picking the strongest pup out of a litter, maybe something to there old ways?
Awesome thought. I actually have heard the exact same practice but used in fighting chickens. Let you hens run loose on the yard and let them pic the rooster. Very interesting idea.
