Goose those are really nice looking dogs! Can you describe their style? Like their range, track speed, nose, baying style, bite, silent/open, etc....Too, can you say where they got the characteristics from? I guess what I mean is which breed contributed each characteristic? Another question is, have you tried the cross both ways, hound on top curr on bottom and curr on top hound on bottom? I was raised with a certain train of thought and just curious if you notice or got the same results.
T-Dog I can only give you a detail of the 3 above being as their the oldest and have the most experience, their track running style is exactly what I was after when I made this cross,once they have a track they can smell good they are relentless in pushing it and once they get a hog up and running they can get up on him quick, they have a real keen sense of track running and don’t make many losses and run with their head up, if they make a bobble in the track they start making loops where they lost it at and it’s usually not long and they have it back up, I can’t really say how far they range out because they’ve struck hogs literally as soon as their feet hit the ground out the box and have gone upwards of a mile before opening on a track, I’ll say this, finding a hog is on their mind when casted, they’re not naturally as rangy by themselves as my other curs are, their baying style is really my only concern about them, they all bay good and bay tight when in company but individually bay loose, my big male is actually the loosest baying off them, Christmas Eve we got on a flat out bad boar and Ben was one of 2 dogs that didn’t get wrecked, I’m going to breed Ben back to his mother this year to bring back in some more bay because she bays with a vengeance and later on down the rd breed him back to his sisters and go from there, they are f1 crosses and I’m afraid if I breed back toward the sire or dams side I’ll lose some of the vigor and not bragging at all but they are some of the nicest dogs I’ve ever hunted with and there wasn’t a single dud in the litter of 5 I weaned and got to the woods, one male was hit by a log truck running a coyote behind my house when he was 10 months old...
The pictures of the last two are off the best female I’ve ever owned or personally hunted with, after seeing the results in the first cross with that line of walkers I took my gyp and bred to the same male, the red tick looking one got her chest cavity punctured Monday, these two belong to my two closest friends and I have 2 more myself and one of the same guys has another sister and this will be their first season on them...
As far as the crosses go I’ve seen it done with a full brother and sister that were curs and each were bred to two full brother and sister that were plotts and the results were completely different types of dogs in style and body build, years later I found out that a dog only inherits it’s mitochondrial DNA from the mother, this isn’t theory or speculation it’s FACT, that goes for all mammals, I had always been told that the caliber of the female being bred is what needs to be focused on and that a great female will make a mediocre male look good in the brood box but a great male cannot fix the faults of a mediocre female, and them men who always told me that all had yards of top dogs, I’m not talking about hog hunting but men who were bird hunters, squirrel hunters, cat hunters, and bulldog men, after researching mDNA, it finally clicked with what those men had unknowingly been practicing for years, I’m still unfamiliar with it myself but have discovered some info that makes all the sense in the world...
What are your thoughts on it?
