hunting a prego bitch to hype up a upcomming litter for sale?still risky but an idea i cam up with as a possibility some rookie may try to coin in on.
Nice try but I don't make any money on sale of pups....
when I was a kid I hunted my dogs about every day...the female I had she went even though she looked like she had a watermelon inside her...but we didn't have hogs back then in that part of the country...we ran and caught just about everything that the dogs could catch including snakes...hog dogging is a different game...besides a dangerous game we are talking about some long races as well...
but there is nothing wrong with controlled situations such as caged hogs, bay pens and throwing a raw ear to the pregnant gyp once in a while...at 5 weeks I will throw a head to the pups and watch them go at it...but I make sure they are hungry before I throw it in their pen...I am willing to take a few chances wit raw pork a few times to hopefully imprint the pups in a way to get them to like pig at an earlier stage in their life...
a calculated risk I am willing to take is feeding a raw wild hog head to the pups to eat on at 6 weeks on...a few times is all that I believe is needed...just letting the pups skip a meal before feeding a head with all the neck meat and they will be fighting over it...I believe it is a good way to start the pups out...
