How many using dogs are you feeding?

[t-dog]

I was just sitting here in this warm house on my sorry behind, thinking. Yes I said I was thinking. That might be enough heat generated to melt the ice.  Anyway, the thought process was this, I wonder how many dogs other people are feeding? By dogs I mean using dogs even the retired ones. I have 1 catch dog and 6 find dogs. One of the 6 (Raylynn) has a litter of pups on her at the moment. I have 3 that I can cast solo and find hogs. The other three are litter mates and only 2 have been hauled and hunted. One of those has found his own hogs since day one but has been on injured reserve after about every trip. The little gyp ran so hard the other day that she didn’t even want to get up and eat that night. She was at every hog that day and several times was hunting alone. She was in the right areas just got beat to the hogs by experience. We had to leash her up to make her quit to go home. So I’m pleased with both of them. The 3rd one might end up being my favorite. I’m fixing to put him in the woods since his brother is out and I think his sister had it in her mind pretty good about what we are there for. All are very kin and all play potential roles in my breeding program.


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[Cajun]

  Dang T dog. You must want me to get depressed or something if I have to go out there and count those knuckleheads. I'll have to get back with you on this.

[t-dog]

You are a rich man Cajun! That many hounds of that caliber, that’s like being married to 2 Dolly Partons at one time.


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[jsh]

Eight.

4 strike from 2-14 years old, and yes the 14 will still go.

4 catch

[Shotgun66]

After catching one in the water in 19 degrees on Friday, I’m gonna follow your lead and stay indoors T dog.

[Shotgun66]

And I’m feeding 5 dogs.
1 find/bay dog
2 catch dogs
1 retired bulldog
1 Coonhound


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[The Old Man]

Between the BMC's, Plotts, and a couple Dogo's we'll have 20 something. That is too many to always do them justice, but if you only have what you can hunt or use and you have one bad day you can be out of business for  awhile, and I don't like starting over.

[Cajun]

  The Old Man is right. I came close to being put out of business years ago.
  Ok T dog, I am going to send you my Therapist bill. Not rich by any means but I am dog poor.
  2 bulldogs
Yellow, Josh, Flirt, and Echo are started dogs 15-16 months.
Finished dogs are Hank, Amber, Auburn, Showtime, Steel.
Pups not started from 3-8 months are Judge, Hope, Blue, Bluebell, Brownie, Wonder and Captain.
Retired dogs Brandy and Trumpet.
  I did sell a couple of finished dogs last month.
  I think the total is 20.
  I am starting a Go Fund me account for dogfood. All donations are appreciated.

[Shotgun66]

Between the BMC's, Plotts, and a couple Dogo's we'll have 20 something. That is too many to always do them justice, but if you only have what you can hunt or use and you have one bad day you can be out of business for  awhile, and I don't like starting over.

Old man/Cajun...... I am in the position you guys described. One bad day or extra rank boar and I’m starting over. I need to get another bay dog going.


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[l.h.cracker]

Haha Cajun I'll take a couple off your hands if the feed bill gets to depressing.
I'm feeding 3 Finished dogs I use Hambone,Cypress and ABJ all 3.5-4.5yrs
1 retired Female Rye only retired because of her Blood and Grit she's 4.5yrs
1 young started dog Copper 1.5yrs
2 unstarted litter mates Stanky and Pretty almost a yr out of Hambone/Cypress they're going to the woods this week
2 pups 3 months old
So 7 dogs and 2 pups
All dogs are either related or choosen for foundation stock for my yards program.

[l.h.cracker]

Shoot I forgot my Bulldog Dozer.

[NLAhunter]

6 cur dogs 4 of which are young dogs going good 2 older dogs 3 bulldogs hopefully a litter of bulldog puppies on the way I bred my buckskin bulldog buck to buckskin pit gyp I got should be good cross we will see I fooled around and missed get old gyp bred that I needed to to have some cur puppies to start next year but it didn't work out but luckily I got bulldogs bred right before I had to leave to go to work for few weeks

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[Encino Man]

6 quail dogs/pointers
3 hog dogs,
3 cow dogs
2 coon/cat dogs
7 - 9 week old puppies out of my best hog dog and my best cow dog gyp

[t-dog]

It’s sure not hard to get in a bad spot. I had a buddy that had 4 females of his family of dogs and in just about a month or two lost everyone of them to some sort of absolutely freak accidents. He pretty much had to start over. I don’t like to keep a ton of dogs and can’t afford a bunch if I take care of them the way I think they should be. For this reason I give my friends puppies and their friends if they are honorable dog people. Doing this allows me to watch the dogs in person and I have access to breed to them. These folks usually ask advice on who or what to breed to when it comes time or offer pups back if they have a litter. It didn’t work as well for me with my family of bulldogs. For my liking and expectations they were pretty dang nice. But most of them had long careers and people don’t usually keep as many catch dogs on hand so there were less outlets for puppies. Lots of people wanted them but I knew of too many dumb a$$ things they did with other bulldogs to give them one of mine. For these reasons I didn’t raise enough to continue on and have ran out. The right hunt can send you home with fewer dogs than you went to the woods with and it seems like those type of hunts come in spurts. We had about 4 or 5 in a row right before deer season. We lost one catch dog and saw some others (not mine) get a gut check because of the whoopin Mr. Hawg was dishing out. Lots of mending had to be done. So y’all are spot on about having too many one day and not enough the next.


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[t-dog]

Encinoman you are 3 dogs short. You need a squirrel dog, a bear dog, and a deer dog and you’ll pretty much have it all covered.


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[Mike]

I’m feeding 10 and try to keep it around that number. It’s hard to do them all justice only hunting once, sometimes twice a week. I’ve hit a couple of real bad streaks and was left with nothing but young dogs to start over with a couple of times... it sucks. Need to hit the lottery where I can hunt all the time and raise several litters of pups a year hahahaha.

[cajunl]

3 retired 1-10years 2-13 years
2 finished dogs 7 years old
1 bulldog 9 years old
1 started cur dog 2 years old.


Straight Geriatric crew. I cross my fingers everytime I turn loose.

After 7 straight breeding attempts in 3+ years, I got so desperate I had to buy and send a yellow dog from Texas to Fl. Now that is pure desperation! 

Some of yall sound like your in a good spot.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

We got 8 head of strike dogs all of the Plott family.    3 Dogo cds and 1 Plott pup I ain’t started yet.   He ain’t but 6 months old. 


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[Encino Man]

Encinoman you are 3 dogs short. You need a squirrel dog, a bear dog, and a deer dog and you’ll pretty much have it all covered.


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I think I'm good with what I got lol. Although I'd trade all my bird dogs for bear dogs if we had bears down here . Maybe some day, there has been bears spotted in both duval and brooks county this year and seems there are a couple every year around zapata and starr counties. I doubt there will be a huntable population of them though in my life time, if ever. But honestly besides hunting coons and cats with my kids, one of the reasons I have hound  dogs is the dream of treeing a bear someday. May have to plan an out of state hunt sometime soon.

[t-dog]

I like a hound pretty good myself.

Cajun I meant to tell you that I can do your counseling. I won’t even charge you since you are a distinguished member of ETHD!


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