Next generation

[Slim9797]

https://vimeo.com/875015711

6 months old and 1st time for my guero and spoon to see a hog. Misty’s 2nd. Let hog out of the trailer and it was on from the jump. Come on January.


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[t-dog]

Maybe it’s just me but I can’t get it to open.


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[Slim9797]

Hold over the link and click open in browser thomas. Or atleast that makes it work for me. If I just click the link it won’t open it.

 For any of the older crowd on here that was on here 10+ years ago. That JRT shorty in that video I just picked up from Mr. James and Clayton Hollub over here in schulenburg. Him and another had gotten after the neighbors cat and needed a new home so I went and got them.

Here’s same link copied from internet and not the Vimeo app. Maybe this works. https://vimeo.com/875015711


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[t-dog]

Your a genius it worked.


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[Slim9797]

Lost guero to the fm road about 1/2 mile from the house. Always something with these sketch pups. Christmas eve eve I took spoon and Misty and sketch down to the bottom behind my house and casted them. 8 months old First time for them to be collared and sent “hunting”. They left like some 3 year olds off the flatbed right behind sketch. They made it about 400 with sketch and split off. Any track spoon comes across, he’s gonna tell you and everything else in the woods about it. Lmao.  His style, how he travels, and trail’s, to me is way more “houndy” than what these leopard dogs typically are. Misty is tighter mouthed. Only barks if she can see what she’s chasing. They chastised a deer or 2 and then a few cows. Let em run for an hour. Only went to go get them off the cow. https://vimeo.com/897899726

Gathered them back after sketch returned from the neighbors. Went to other end of the branch and casted them behind the working pens. They drop down in to the branch go about 300 and stand something up. It broke in short burst a couple of times 50 yards or so. Away then back. Away then back. Kept waiting to hear a coyote howl as I suspected that’s what they had come across. Though that never came. I waited a little to long to grab Lizzo and head to them. They broke south(only big hogs run that way in the past) and race was on. Picked them up about a mile down the branch where it crosses the road. No hog to be had, but they did as good as I could have asked for that being first time out. https://vimeo.com/897899966 now we wait for 3rd weekend of January.


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[t-dog]

Man I hate you lost your pup. Probably means that pup was good. It doesn’t seem to happen to the sorry ones.


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[Slim9797]

Well, I’m About a week out on 2 litters that are hopefully going to afford me the opportunity to keep this family of dogs I’ve been breeding going.

The important one is We paired sketch up with a young male dog of T-dogs that Thomas seems to be really high on, and from the little I’ve seen and heard on him, rightfully so. Needed an outcross and wanted it to be something my style, but also to build on some areas I think my dogs could be better in. Some good conversation with Thomas was had about what those areas were, and he offered me to breed to his Ray dog. Cross Looks real good on paper , time will tell. I know one thing for almost certain, these pups are going to be about as pretty and colored up pups as you could ask for(if colored dogs are your thing lol).


The other breeding is looking like a really tight bred accident, either that or a coyote or stray got to her at the house. I should be able to tell as soon as they’re born. Be cool if it works out to some good pups, but it’s definitely tighter than I would normally go. Be interested to see if anyone else has any experience on a full sibling cross. Their daddy was of no kin to these leopard dogs so hoping they have enough vigor to keep them from being deformed or genetically undesirable.


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[WayOutWest]

I don't think you will be sorry, I have watched T dial these dogs in for 17 or 18 years and they have gotten better and better.

[t-dog]

I don’t think you’ll get deformities from the full sibling cross. It’ll be interesting to see what the pups throw back to most. It might tell you a lot. I’ve talked to some old timers that said to breed brother sister until you started getting the undesirables. For some that will be the first cross and for others it may take a few times of doing it. They told me that the deeper you go the more things you will see but to not worry, just cull the the undesirable ones. Then once you’re to the point that you only get one or two quality pups, then those are bred together and the quality pups out of that are what you use to outcross or breed back to other relatives that aren’t as close. They called this setting your genes. This means your selected pups are as close to ideal as think you’re going to get. The pair you start with should be the same. If they aren’t VERY similar then it might take longer. You have to select for type each litter, breeding like dogs to like dogs. I haven’t ever tried this so I can’t say if it works or not but I understand why it would. My taste in what I want is very specific, so I look for certain markers in every pup so that I increase my odds in raising a pup that is to type in every way. I don’t know what guys like Cajun use for strategy, but there is always more than one way to skin a cat. It’s kinda like the navigation on a vehicle. You put the destination in and it gives you two or three different routes you can take. You have to choose the route that suites you beat.


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[Slim9797]

Misty had 5 Juneteenth baby’s yesterday evening. 3 females and 2 males. Them leopard genes run deep.  Now we wait on sketch.


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[Cajun]

Whew we, now we are talking. That is the right color. Cant hardly go wrong with a brindle dog. I had a accidental cross years back and was going to kill them all. Glad I didnt because they really made nice dogs. Only thing that surprised me was they didnt reproduce as good as they were. Spotted dogs run a close second so I think you are going to be fine.

[Hollowpoint]

I like the looks of them, I think they'll be just what you want out of them.

[t-dog]

Cajun was your accidental breeding a cross that you would’ve made?


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[Cajun]

  I would not have made it at the time. It was a 1/2 brother, 1/2 sister cross and they were a year old. I gave them all away but kept a male and female.  They started young and I ended up selling the male. He was about as ugly a plott as I have seen except for his running gear. The guy I sold him to ended up getting out and sold him. The guy that bought him told me he was a all day, all night dog that would be bayed somewhere. His sister ended up being the same kind of dog. Unbelievable stamina. The male died young and the female never reproduced what she was altho she produced good usable dogs.

[t-dog]

I’ll be. You just never know for sure with genetics. Even a successful cross this time may not produce the same a second time. I guess it works that way in all species. I’m the oldest of three kids. I’ve told my younger sisters all their life that I’m the reason that they are here. Momma and daddy were so proud of what they did the first time that they tried twice more to duplicate me. They gave up when they realized it was beginners luck. The youngest said no that they finally just got it right after three tries. We tell the middle sister, well one of those two stories is correct, but at least they loved you anyway!


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[Cajun]

  I told you wrong. It was a full brother to a full sister cross.

[t-dog]

You said he was UGLY. Do you know where that UGLY came from? I ask just out of curiosity, wondering if you could see that it came from something up close or if it was from further back.


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[Cajun]

He just had a coke bottle head. I called him Pin Head. Dont know where it came from. His sister was a good looking dog.

[NLAhunter]

Good looking puppies hope they work out for yall

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[Slim9797]

Sketch laid down and had hers yesterday evening. Think we got 10 or 11 In this pile. Some Merles, some leopards, brindles, even a reverse cur or 2. Looks like everyone is doing well this morning.




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