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« Reply #300 on: April 22, 2016, 05:09:31 pm »

lots of great info, thanks for sharing gentlemen
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« Reply #301 on: April 22, 2016, 07:26:00 pm »

Parker.  Ive seen it in males also to.  A Prepotent male .  You can breed to a fence post and get post that hunt same as a blue hen female are a Prepotent female.  They come both ways.  I liked owning  the female a little better back in the day because I could get whole liters at a time out of them and my choices of pups.
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« Reply #302 on: April 22, 2016, 09:19:16 pm »

it depends mike on the dog its test litter's ...even though they make dogs if they don't look right to for what I want I move on to something else .....right now I have  4 young gyps 3 off joe  x blister... blister is a friend of mines dog she is off a dog out of joe's littermate brother... I have one that is off my male dog sue x coyote she is a daughter of joe and sue is also a grandson of joes littermate brother .....also he is a grandson of joe ......whoow hope I got that all right..... now my son has a dog named slim that is out of joe littermate to coyote he's the real deal find dog .....we are  now breeding him cross  some  joe daughters as well as  sue daughter's and  sue  cross some  joe daughter's ..... my 2  boys has  2  gyps  out  of sue and two littermate sisters out of joe and e  use  them bred back on there uncle slim out of joe .....  hahahha its a mess .....  but that's why mine is looking such much alike ..... but I do like breeding dolike breeding 2 littermate sisters cross one good male  and  hopefully cross the offspring .....
Do you hunt these females or just use them as brood gyps?
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« Reply #303 on: April 22, 2016, 09:56:57 pm »

Hog dog mike what breed or crosses do you run on hogs ?


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I am temporarily out of hog dogs because I have custody of my 2 grand children and they are 3 and 5. My dogs came from friends that I have hunted with for years down around Franklin. Most of them were red curs and I had good luck with them.

My friend had an old dog named Rowdy and he was just a really good dog and produced good dogs and I had some out of him. Also had a red cur / cat cross female. The boys I hunt with always have good dogs.
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« Reply #304 on: April 22, 2016, 10:02:07 pm »

Hello hog dog Mike

Do you happen to know John Rabidou ., Uodibar kennels ?

I'm a young field trialer pretty much going through what you've said . I go all over the country running dogs off horse and go get guidance  from pros when I can .



I don't know him personally but know of him. He is a GSP man that hunts down south. He copied the Whele deal and changed his name backwards for his kennel name. From what I hear he has some good GSPs but I never did see any of them run.

There is a guy in Brownwood, Tx. named Pee Wee Cole that day in and day out always had some really good dogs. I ran against him in trials and judged a good many of his dogs. If he put one on the ground it was usually a pretty good dog.
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« Reply #305 on: April 22, 2016, 10:37:50 pm »

There is still so much I don't know about breeding that it is not even funny. I always enjoyed getting with a lot of the top trainers in the country and listen to the have it out about dogs. Lots of different opinions, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

There are some things you better not do. Don't go telling someone that "Pete or whoever" will do this or he won't do that. Anytime you do he is fixin to make a liar out of you.

One time I loaded up horses and dogs and headed to Oklahoma for a field trial. I thought I was ready. My best dog was outstanding and I was confident she would win. Where I made my mistake was telling the guy going with me that she was so good at backing I hadn't even worked her on it. We turned out an my dog just didn't look right to me and the other dog got the first point. I KNEW when I looked at her she was not going to back. It embarrassed me to death because she did it where EVERYBODY could see her. I don't think she ever refused another back for the rest of her life. Something about driving over a hundred miles and having over a hundred in entry fees.

I made the mistake one night of telling some guys on the lease how lucky we were that none of our dogs ran rabbits. We had one look like a grey hound the next morning.

DON'T TRY TO BREED AROUND A FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mother nature will show you not to do that.

I had an outstanding dog that did everything right. The guys on the lease wanted some more just like her. We went to the stud dog owner that produced other to see about some pups. He had a litter coming up out of a bred in the purple bitch. They bought 3 pups or maybe 4 out of that litter. When they got old enough to run they cut them loose and they would not handle a lick. This was hard to figure because the stud was a known producer, a 6 time champion, and my best dog ever was out of him. When we examined the papers come to find out she was a litter mate to the crazy dog I had got from the dog jockey's years before. In fact I had run the dog with the original owner and she refused to handle. BAD TRAITS IN A DOG ARE STRONG AND WILL BE PASSED ON AND YOU CAN BET ON THAT.

One time I bred 3 bitches, 2 to the same 6 time champion, and the other to his son. One litter where I bred 2 bitches was great and every dog in it was way better than average an some really good. The other was worthless and I culled every one of them. The male needed to be bred to a strong willed rank bitch. The worthless litter female was tough physically but on the timid side. The other bitch bred to the son had some good and some bad. The one I kept was a cull but the one I gave my buddy won puppy and derby for the state of Texas for the year. Her sire went on to produce a national champion for a guy in Tyler.

If you can find a stud that you have seen run and you like use him. If you can find a female that you have seen run use her. If you have seen some of their offspring run and you like them try to buy one or get a pup out of the next litter.

Some of the best bird dogs I ever raised were setters of all things. I wound up with a setter bitch that I had trained for a doctor. She was a really good dog and I used her all the time to aid in training younger dogs. I ran across a male down south that was truly outstanding and could hang with any dog, any time, any place. They wound up having 2 litters and every dog in each litter was a dog of some kind. Some were really good.
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« Reply #306 on: April 23, 2016, 05:05:13 am »

hogdogs my old blackie dog threw hogdogs out of anything you bred him too ..some of the gyps wasn't  worth the air it took to keep em alive  and the pups  made  good dogs ...and I mean some of them outstanding find dogs ..... it was gyps of friends of mine only one fo them as really any good she as a leopard cowdog and there is still dogs that go back to that around baying hogs .....one litter  produced red gal a super cold nosed gyp ,,Clooney dennis roach owned in Arkansas said he was a sure nuff dog ..genie I sold to david jewel  in baton rouge will Roberts and Brandon nettles still have  some of her offspring she  got killed  on a bad hog mike doyles lady gyp was real good and there is dogs out of her around still  .. barret chatman had a yellow  one that was good but real ruff and I started 2 and sold  them down south hunted out of air boats all these dogs same litter ....that's every pup out of a trash red gyp made  dogs ......I can rattle  off  whole litters that everydog  made a dog  .....he was a dominate breeder ......and  he  liked a  hog better  than anything and if he  smelled  hog scent it   may be 3  days  old     but he  would  circle  out further  and further  til  he  picked  them up  somewhere may be  half a mile  off ...and when you got him in hogs  you could not  catch him ...  blackie made me ......                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       hillbilly  I don't hunt  many gyps too finished .... I usually start them ....I got one  I am bringing this  morning to hunt ....  but  I like males  ...I can't stand coming in heat ......                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      fella's I believe  breeding good  dogs to good dogs and breeding  extremely line bred  dogs is way different .....
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« Reply #307 on: April 23, 2016, 07:46:38 am »

Larry...what wa's blackie?
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« Reply #308 on: April 23, 2016, 08:14:18 pm »

momma was half cat and ladner daddy as mountain cur ...he didn't look like any of his litter or his parents  ...his sister was a red gyp queeny I coon hunted and squirrel hunted her .... one gyp black and tan I treed coon with also .... the rest I don't remember where they  went some died from parvo ....
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« Reply #309 on: April 26, 2016, 07:54:31 pm »

Mr Parker if you don't mind me asking you said you started with one male and three females. After you went through your pups and found your keepers, what was your next step after that? Did you go back to the sire? Or breed pups? If you don't want to say I understand

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« Reply #310 on: April 26, 2016, 11:14:13 pm »

it was 2  females and my blackie dog ..... I crossed those dogs 5 times each  .......  I was  just producing dogs  to hunt .......it was when I bred jr's momma bell blackie grand daughter  too  blackie that I really started trying to narrow  my breeding down because I had  watched all the black dogs that looked  like blackie  act  more  like him and breed  more  like him .....I actually progressed  with the breeding  of the dogs as  I believe  anyone  will .....
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« Reply #311 on: April 28, 2016, 05:54:19 pm »

it was 2  females and my blackie dog ..... I crossed those dogs 5 times each  .......  I was  just producing dogs  to hunt .......it was when I bred jr's momma bell blackie grand daughter  too  blackie that I really started trying to narrow  my breeding down because I had  watched all the black dogs that looked  like blackie  act  more  like him and breed  more  like him .....I actually progressed  with the breeding  of the dogs as  I believe  anyone  will .....
I see, thanks Mr. Parker

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« Reply #312 on: May 16, 2016, 10:18:35 pm »

Just a few quick thoughts about something I'm passionate about..


If your breeding two dogs in hopes of getting something better than your starting with, then your starting with the wrong ones.  Breeding should be more about re-producing one or two great dogs, then trying to put something together and hope for the best.

Having said that, some breedings just won't work.  Can't be blind and make excuses for what happens.

Also have to breed for your own use.  No dog will ever please every hunter as we all have different expectations.  Best way if possible is to keep entire litters to evaluate.  Some will be better than others.  If you can't keep them all, try to find people who hunt exactly like you do.  If your breeding casting dogs, knowing how they hunt by being raised by someone who roads does you little good.


Evaluating dogs based on the next generation is different than evaluating based on simply which dog makes the best hunting dog.  For example, slow starters begat slow starters.  Just because a dog finishes out really nice doesn't mean I'm interested in breeding that dog if it took him/her three years to get there.  Then prepotency comes into play, etc...

Know that not all breedings and pups will make good dogs.  Have a goal, but know that the end result will be basically unobtainable.  There will never be complete litters of perfect dogs.

Listen to others and more importantly WATCH others.  Find out who's raising consistent litters of good dogs and pay attention to what they're doing. 

Understand that for every desirable trait you breed a dog for (especially in outcrosses) that your also bringing in all the undesirables.  Unfortunately breeding dogs isn't like mixing paint where you take a little of this and a little of that and end up with a perfect recipe.  As an example, know that you can't simply cross rough and loose and end up with something in between.  You may get a few, but the majority are going to be either rough...or loose. 

 


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