He is nice for sure, both good looking dogs. In your opinion is there a difference in the stag based vs wolfhound based crosses?
Thanks. Yes there is is a huge difference between a wolfhound based dog and a stag based dog. The only thing a stag has on a wolfhound is speed but a wolfhound is certainly no slouch when it comes to speed beating most dogs of the world. If your breeding for nose, stamina, size, power, hardness, durability, and a mind to hunt like a finder holder or want the stamina and mind in a dog to role out and catch 2 or 3 or 4 pigs out of a mob after the initial catch then you need to forget about the stag and go with wolfhound. A stag cant control or even hold a 300 pound boar. Few would even try such a beast. A wolfhound gonna make a 300 pound boar look like easy and gonna rely off him and go catch his buddy he was running with while your tying the first beast. A wolfhound can do everything a stag can do when it comes to pigs but the stag can only do a fraction of what a wolfhound can do. Most of the time an F1 stag based bull lurcher is a disappointment in the size structuere and finding department. Rarely will a wolfhound based bull lurcher be disappointing in size, hardness, and universal hunting abilities. Both have great spead and great eyesight but only one has size, power, stamina, nose, and a can be usee to hunt anyway you please. Its kinda like the difference between a single cab 2 wheel drive gas powered pickup vs a 4 door 4 wheel drive diesel pickup. One can do what the other can but the other can do things that the other just can't and does them in a daily basis and with ease and holds up to the work the other cant even do.
I have stag blood in my dogs. I crossed a wolfhound to a stag once and made pretty nice dogs. What I did was make a better stag but i didnt make a better wolfhound. The stag genes still plague and hurt me in my dogs today. I've been trying to breed away from the stag genes through stuff like genetic drift for 3 generations and always adding crap in to try to move further away from it in favor of a more wolfhound type dog. Looks like I'm about to really make a huge gain in leaving the hindrance of the stag behind me going foward with the dogs i have now and will have on the ground in late winter early spring.
