Thanks for the reply T-Dog! It definitely is a hard predicament right now with the lack of dogs still alive or available to breed in to. I think it is due to nobody in SC using dogs for a living (that I know of) but guys around here just don’t breed tight or have families and lines of dogs. At most you may see someone throw a pup back to her dad, but then that’s where it stops. I’m the only person I know that is trying to create a true line. Everyone else just scatter breeds random dogs that they like. I have two male pups off of my litter from last year. The parents were un related. The mom was a 1/2 pit X 1/2 walker that is scatter bred as far as I know. The dad is a 3/4 east Texas black mouth and 1/4 bird dog that came from Justin Corbell from on here. This male was from an outcross he made from his family of dogs.
The two male pups I kept off of that litter have been awesome so far. They’ll be a year old on September 10th. They have what is lacking in the Bo Betty’s (in my opinion.) They have real long legs, real long heads, long necks, and tons of endurance and drive. Dum Dum and Mine’s faults are that after two hard days of hunting they’re completely burnt out and sore. A hard day of hunting and they are pretty well spent. These pups I’ve ran hard and they just don’t stop or get tired. Also I wanted more size in them. These pups will probably end up being a lean 70-75lbs. Plenty of intelligence too. I would like to bring them in to the Bo Betty’s but the hesitation is obviously with them being a crap shoot for genes since they are bred from completely unrelated dogs. Here’s a picture of Red and Ranger. Pictures don’t do them any justice for how tall these pups are.
That’s a great idea with breaking the dogs down on a list. I will start working on that immediately. Like you, I am trying to plan crosses ahead of time by several generations. If nothing else, it’s fun brainstorming for me. Catching a hog is just the result of the actual fun for me, my passion is in the dogs!
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