spend more time finding the right line of dogs to start with than starting with a half ass line of dogs because it will take years to clean it up enough to produce consistently a high percentage of good hunting dogs...
starting out with the right dogs and you can tweak and improve on an already good line of dogs...
That right there is probably just as hard as breeding the right dogs!!!
How can you breed sure enough hog dogs when you cant get your hands on any to begin with!!
All the old dog farts with a good line wont let go of any dogs except to close friends, family, kiss a$$es, blah blah blah..
Wonder why all the "average" hog dogs are getting bred and producing "more culls in the world" ? Cause thats all some can get!!
And before someone says " find a dogman close to you and drag their hogs, learn all you can, and they might give you a pup" , what if there are NONE close?? Sure theres plenty of guys with dogs around, but no well established, sure enough HOG DOGS..
If it wasnt for ETHD, There might be a handful of guys that i know that even hunt hogs... ( and their dogs suck!
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There, i feel better!!
If it wasnt for ETHD, There might be a handful of guys that i know that even hunt hogs... ( and their dogs suck!
)
There, i feel better!!
ok...I am going to say it too...I haven't seen many dogs that I would feed...not going to mention breeds....and I am sure lots of these breeds have improved over the years but just like when dodge screwed up back in the 1980s it left me knowing I would never buy another dodge even though I know they look good and I know some are even better that what I own now...
but the same happened to me back then with dogs...I saw dogs that couldn't smell their own butt and dogs that would only run a hog they could see...heaven forbid if they lost sight of it...they would give up they track and come back...and I would be tripping all over the dog when the dog should be out hunting.....
I finally saw the light after about 7 or 8 years of this crap...and found me some real dogs...but they were kind of small and too open but at 10 months old would run a hog in the thickest briars for hours...yea...my kind of dogs...bred a BMC once into the line for quieter mouth and larger size...that put me on track...
this time around I went straight to the squirrel/coon dogs again...but taking about 3 years to settle on the right dogs...
right now I also have a 1/2 redbone with 1/4 ab and 1/4 pitbull and he is a beauty and hunts pretty good for a dog bred that way...he might be for sale at some point but not right now...
you should try it...you might like it...
