It's only my opinion, which don't mean much, but, I think your on the right track now. When someone produces between 150-300 pups a year at between $700 and 1500 per pup,
Dang i ain't good at math but my calculator says 150 x 700 = 105000
, and 150 x 1500 = 225000
......Thats it I'm gonna quit my day job and sale TAYLOR bred curs.
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I'll say this and leave it alone on the numbers;
A fellow I was working dogs for really wanted a yellow dog a few years ago, I asked a few people and looked on the net and came to a website with real pretty pictures and testimonials, so I called up the old fella and shot the breeze with him for a while and he sure seemed to know his stuff. He said he didn't breed real often and but just so happened to have "a litter or two" on the ground right now. I thought WOW, how lucky for me!! Then we started talking price. I found there was actually 3 litters to choose from depending on how much I wanted to spend.
I confirmed the customers budget and soon went down to pick up this pup. When I got there I saw enough pups for the multiple litter story to perfectly feasible and what I believe (opinion only) was another pregnant bitch as well as being shown another bitch who had a dog in her kennel. There were tons of kennels at this place so I dint believe these two were bonking together because of necessity.
Now, let me say, this guy had an awesome setup! Everything was clean and orderly and really top notch, I don't believe I've seen anyone with a better kept kennel yard with my own peepers.
All that being said, as this pup progressed in age and I progressed in knowledge of his lineage I did a little snooping and found that I could call just about any time of the year, do a lil talking, talk a lil money and viola, there would be pups available. Tada, surprise surprise.
As the dog continued to grow I was dissatisfied with alot of things about him and his progression in comparison with other dogs in his age group that I had or hunted. I was tempted to take him back and try again, but the GARUNTEE was that at a year old he would bay a hog and thats exactly what he was capable of so how do I claim he's a cull when his only aspiration in life was that he'd do what my wife's butt ugly mutt will??
I don't hate this fella, I really don't have any hard feelings towards him, and if he is happy with the dogs he's breeding and he's making a few bucks on them, then good for him.
I ONLY COMMENTED BECUASE THIS FELLA FROM FLORIDA SAW THE SAME BASIC THING I DID AND DECIDED HE WAS UPSET ABOUT IT.
I bet alot of you WB guys have dogs you like, heck when I talked to KT004 he seemed about as nice and knowledgeable a fella as anybody else, and he seems to have some pretty dad burn nice registered dogs!!! THAT my friends, is what I was saying, that HUNTERS OR COWBOYS who USE those dogs and breed on their own prejudices probably have a good deal of measurable success. But the folks who solely breed their dogs off of other men's word on how the cow ate the cabbage aren't producing show stopping, contest winning, strike quality yellow dogs.
Hope I didn't hurt to many feelings, ya buncha ben lovers
See see see happy an jokin.