Prefered method to start CD

[Atlas]

Everyone has their preference for what they want in a CD. How do most go about training/cultivating an ideal CD? how many in the pen before the woods? age?

I've heard let them catch an easy to handle smaller pig -45lbs at 6 months, 9 months - 70lbs and then once more at 1yr-100lber - then off to the woods.

Just want others input on how they best develop an ideal CD.

[LTcaughthog]

At 3 months I let my bulldog catch a 30lb shoat then. I put her up till 6 months where she caught a 70lb and then at 9 months put her in with another bulldog in pen and caught a rank 200lb boar.. After that I figured she'd be able too hold her own. Mock hunted her to get her going too bays a couple times out 150lb pigs then after that it was time for the woods around  year and a half. But my bulldog is on the smaller side.. 37-43lbs so I wanted her feet under her before I put her out there but a bigger bulldog. I've seen them in woods early as 9 months catching hogs

[t-dog]

I let my pups catch shoats that are about their equivalent in size till about 3 1/2- 4 months old. Grooming them if need be. Then they don't catch anymore until they are at least 9-10 months old. At that time they get a couple shots at a 75-80 lb shoat then they graduate pretty rapidly. I think smaller hogs create some bad habits in young catch dogs. The period in there where they are not allowed to catch is the most important. That's when they are getting ready to shed baby teeth and get their adult teeth. No teeth...No catch dog. Let them come in and get set good plus their body is trying to mature still. This is also the time I like to put the handle on my pups. Has worked well for me over the years.

[halfbreed]

   I took my bulldog pup with me to the hog pen and let him watch the bay dogs bay from the outside . then when he was around 14 months old I took him to the woods and let him catch his first hog . he has a super clean holding style . but he is a bulldog and not a bully bred dog . they either got it naturally or they don't !

[KevinN]

^^^ like it Robert

I just take mine to the pen when they're around a year old. Show them what barking means and Let them catch 3 times.

Off to the woods.

[Judge peel]

I let them catch on a small pig when there about 4 mont maybe 3 times or so then put them up till they get a yr if they will catch when young no need in messing up there teeth or jaw put them up till they are ready total different then a bay dog lol

[hogtied07]

if its a litter of pups i will show them pig at around 3 months and decided from what they do on which i am going to keep. then spend the following month up to around a year on handle and most important to me socializing them with other dogs giving their adult teeth time to set in then off to the woods sending them im with experienced cd or walking them in to caught hog. they either got it or not. mine come from blood thats been in family for generations its like they are born knowing what to do

[Bo Pugh]

I have a hog pen that joins the back of my dog pen and runs the full length of my dog pens I got a little pen I keep the hog in. I let the hog out and he runs back and forth behind my dog pen. And from all the other dogs barking it will usually get a bulldog fired up and it's a good way to get puppy's to start barking at a hog to just from all the other dogs barking. And after a few times of letting the hog out when the bulldog acts like he wants to catch I'll put him in there and see what he does. I keep a smaller hog around 100lbs in that pen incase a bulldog gets loose and I won't be home for awhile he want be in to big of a bind

[Bowhunter1994]

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Sonny