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Post by hugedogleg on May 26, 2018 22:07:37 GMT -5
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Post by treetop on Jun 5, 2018 14:14:12 GMT -5
What's it take to be a hog dog I see you many breeds it there something you look for
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 5, 2018 14:30:20 GMT -5
Good nose silent on track ( some people will run dogs that are open on track ) just not my preference lots of grit and lots of bottom. I have all yellow black mouth Curs or catahoula.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 14, 2018 12:28:42 GMT -5
I've got 4 red females like these and a yellow male that are all out of the same litter. At four months old they are as good as I've ever seen. I've got a feeling they will hit the ground running next year.  |
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Post by nfalls116 on Jun 14, 2018 16:36:11 GMT -5
Good nose silent on track ( some people will run dogs that are open on track ) just not my preference lots of grit and lots of bottom. I have all yellow black mouth Curs or catahoula. I don’t care to listen to you tell me you see the critter just let me know when you get it stopped. |
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 14, 2018 17:28:45 GMT -5
Yep. Also a cold nosed dog might take all the other dogs on a wild goose chase. Hogs are pretty good at slipping dogs. They can run through briars and brush like a bulldozer. They will hit water and the thickest nastiest brush you can imagine. Way I see it a dog that starts barking before it sees the hog is just giving the hog some heads up. If my old gyps are barking the hog is standing still facing them.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 14, 2018 17:33:07 GMT -5
This old girl is Nugget. I have watched her chasing a hog and be 10 ft behind it looking at it and not bark til she stops it. She will put some teeth to one and make it stand still. Ha  |
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Post by esshup on Jun 22, 2018 21:30:12 GMT -5
Good looking pups!!
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 23, 2018 0:21:44 GMT -5
Yeah I'm pretty proud of them. They are the fastest starting dogs I've ever raised. 4 months old and already baying hogs by themselves. Gritty serious jokers.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jun 29, 2018 19:37:26 GMT -5
Honey Badger don't care  |
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Post by hugedogleg on Jul 15, 2018 9:51:33 GMT -5
Precious chewing on some bone  |
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Post by esshup on Jul 15, 2018 22:13:33 GMT -5
Yeah I'm pretty proud of them. They are the fastest starting dogs I've ever raised. 4 months old and already baying hogs by themselves. Gritty serious jokers. There's a lot to be said about starting with good genetics. It seems that the better the parents and the grandparents were, the faster the pups will learn and the better they will be. |
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Post by hugedogleg on Jul 16, 2018 7:48:00 GMT -5
Yeah I'm pretty proud of them. They are the fastest starting dogs I've ever raised. 4 months old and already baying hogs by themselves. Gritty serious jokers. There's a lot to be said about starting with good genetics. It seems that the better the parents and the grandparents were, the faster the pups will learn and the better they will be. Yeah. I'm starting to learn the ins and outs of line breeding. If you can ever get some good dogs and know what your doing you can keep it going. Those pups are some blood I sent to Oklahoma years ago. The guy tuned it a little and sent it back and man am I impressed so far. |
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Post by esshup on Jul 16, 2018 9:31:39 GMT -5
Watch you don't get too close, then bad things happen. A friend mistakenly had a daughter bred to dad and the whole litter had to be put down. Flipper feet and deaf pups.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jul 16, 2018 10:05:45 GMT -5
Yeah. You can definitely get to tight. I'm not going there. I would just like to be able to reproduce the traits that some of my older dogs have with a decent amount of consistency. No matter what blood the dog has there are no guarantees. I put half of how a dog turns out on myself. I have to train them. I have to put them in a position to succeed. If you do that enough you can usually get a decent dog. 1 or 2 out of 10 will be exceptional. I like a strong prey drive. Silent on track. Better than average nose and a lot of bottom.
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Post by esshup on Jul 25, 2018 9:00:48 GMT -5
Genetics has a lot to do with that. Some of that you can't train into the dogs. Some of that can be a learned trait that they get by watching and working with other dogs that have the traits you want. But you are much further ahead if the genetics are there from the start.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jul 25, 2018 9:42:32 GMT -5
Yeah I got real lucky in the beginning. Didn't hog hunt. My boy got s yellow blackmouth cur. My Daughter got a catahoula. They had pups. I gave every pup in that first litter away. One pup Nugget was kind of plain and nobody wanted her so we keep her. She was a late starter not really doing much at a year. I was just about to give up on her and she turned on. Finding her own hogs at a year and a half. Every bay dog I have is related back to those 2. First pic is Nugget Second is Lilly the Catahoula Third is old Luck    |
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Post by esshup on Jul 25, 2018 10:42:58 GMT -5
I hear ya. I've had Springer Spaniel pups that weren't with the program, then at around 13-14 months of age it was like the light switch was turned on. Completely different dogs.
I wonder how many hunting dogs are "washed out" of training because they aren't learning fast enough when they just need a bit of maturity?
One trainer in Texas (RIP now) raised a flock of Guinea Hens when he had a litter. The pups could pick up and retrieve the young Guineas and as the pups and birds grew, they got used to retrieving bigger and bigger birds. He just did light training with the pups until they were a year old (making sure that they didn't start out with bad habits) and 99% of his dogs turned out great.
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Post by hugedogleg on Jul 26, 2018 22:00:06 GMT -5
Headed home tonight. My pups are 5 months old. They are going to have a weekend full of hog adventures. Try to get them to a couple of bays and see what they are made of.
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