Message #577261

[Austesus]

Cheston, I like the looks of that black dog. I have a soft spot for red, yella, or black! Haha. I hope you have some good luck with the ones you have.

Judge, actually all of the dogs born from the original 3 litters would hunt very good with other dogs. They were really good about honoring another dog and packing up, and mostly were hunted as a pack, not 1-2 dogs out like a lot of the guys that run cur dogs. I’ve gotten to where I enjoy hunting with less dogs these days, it’s much less stressful if I’m hunting near roads or by myself.

Reuben,
I wanted to breed back towards Cash since he was double bred with the original Sire, but unfortunately he got killed Friday night. I haven’t gotten too much info yet but it sounds like he had a heat stroke after being caught on a rank boar for too long before the guys could get to him. Im praying that Mine took and is pregnant, I guess we will know here soon.

I wanted to breed towards Cash because he retained the hunt, nose, and bottom of the BMC side, as well as all of the grit and the silence of the pit side. I’m going to be pretty limited as to my options now. If she did take and the pups turn out to be what I’m hoping for, then I will have to take a male back to Mine and/or do a full brother to full sister breeding. I do have the one living dog that Mine produced in an accidental litter and while she is a very nice dog to hunt with, she’s more of a RCD that will just stick with a lead dog. Her dad was my old bulldogs brother. That line of bulldogs has a tendency to act a little funny with people, as far as cowering down when you go to pet them, which is a huge pet peeve of mine so I don’t want to introduce that trait in to these black dogs.

The only other option I have is a half brother to Mine that is a full BMC, sharing the same sire and his dam was another Ladner BMC that was a little shorter range and a little more gritty than the sire. I stopped hunting him when he was young because he was trashing and opening up on deer, which was making it hard for me to catch educated pigs when I had nothing but young inexperienced dogs. I started taking only silent dogs so that if they trashed they didn’t run the hogs out of the area. In that particular area the hogs would run for the high heavens if they heard a dog because they were hunted 5-6 days a week for years and years. Every once in a while I will let him tag along on a hunt, and he does have a pretty good nose and has found a few hogs, but I would have to hunt him hard to judge wether or not he was worthy of breeding. Even though he is either 5 or 6 years older now, he is still only a started dog since I just never take him. The negatives are that he will open up some which I don’t care for, and both him and his other littermate brother will have diarrhea when I take them on hunts and are constantly stopping to poop every time you turn around. Since both of them do it I figured he may pass that on to pups, which is just a negative trait in my eyes.

If Mine ends up not being pregnant, I may reevaluate and try to hunt Scooter (the half brother BMC) more and see what kind of dog he makes. I guess it would be a crab shoot if the pups come out open, and how catchy they are. My original thoughts years ago were that doubling up on the traits for being open and baying would make the pups lean that way, but cash is proof that when doubled up on his dad, he retained the catch and the silence, so maybe that’s how Mine x Scooter would go as well. That would introduce Scooters mom, Molly, as another variable too.


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