puppy training??

If you are already hunting your pup, start putting him out first. Give him every opportunity to go find the hogs first. That way he will not get dependant on the older dogs.
I am very fortunate that I can let my pups run loose. They start off running rabbits, squirrels, dillars, whatever & by the time they are 5 or 6 months, they have graduated to deer. It does not matter what they are running at this age, they are learning to run & track. You have to break them anyway & by the time I start taking them to the woods, they already know what the deal is.
I introduce them to a small hog in my small pen & then start putting them in my big pen. I can see at a early age, which dogs will have the nose & hunt. I only keep running hogs in my big pen. When I am ready to start hunting them I always let the pups out first to try & figure out a track & I do keep a tritronics on them & if they mess up they get bumped but that is how they learn.
The running loose part as puppies, really takes the work out of it for me. They just learn so much more.