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Mr Blue ?

ANYBODY HAVE ANY REPORTS ON HIS PUPS AND HOW THEY START. AND WHAT KINDA HOUND IS HE ?

Ive got a young gyp here off Mr Blue that I`m liking. She seems more track then tree right now but she's coming along good. Big mouth for sure.

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Pete Rhines

From what I understand Mr Blue only had a couple of litters when he was younger and Wesley told me that he thinks they went to hog hunters. Ritchie McDonal bought him when he was probably 7 and some change and bred him to a few females. I heard there was one who was doing some money winning in Texas. Bruce Conkey wrote about drawing a nice one that Ritchie has bred on a PKC cast in his area.
Craig Cooper bought Mr Blue about a year and a half ago and bred 2 or 3 females to him including Craig Edwards female. Craig kept one out of that litter and he told me he was one of the most natural pups he had seen and compared him to the way Smokey River Tramp started. Craig sent Mr Blue to me last summer with the hopes that with me being more centrally locates people would be able to breed more females to him so that blood would get up in this area and continue to help the breed. Since he has been here we have gotten pups off of Gr Nt Ch Dancer, which is the oldest pups since I’ve had him. Truman spoke about his and Phillip Woody has a littermate who ran and treed the first night out with another dog when he was only about 6 months old. Bred a Nt Ch female to him with the pups being born at the end of last year. Heard a video of a pup from that cross and he has a horn on him. I got Craig’s Gr Nt Ch Layla female out of Hillbilly bred to him and she only had 3 pups born Feb 27th. She was 11 years old so we were happy with that. One went to North Carolina and I still have 2 females that I will be starting this fall. They both have real good mouths and act like nice pups and are easy to look at. My Snapper female had 12 pups, and raised 9 of them that will be 6 weeks old in a couple of days.

So bottom line is that he doesn’t have a lot of pups really old enough to tell how the majority will turn out but the signs are good so far. He is 9 now so if he turns out to be a proven super reproducer his time to breed will probably have already past.

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John Smith
Ohio Valley Bluetick Kennel

I got him at almost 8 years old and he hasn’t been hunted hard but from what I’ve seen I really like Mr Blue. He is a real friendly, level headed dog that acts smart. Not a mean hair on him anywhere. Acts like a big old female except when it comes time to breed a female. He goes hunting by himself or with company. He will pack unless he has something going on himself. Beautiful bawl mouth on the gound giving mouth according to the track, opening just right in my opinion. Dying locator that a kid can call and then a 90 to 100 bark per minute chop mouth tree dog that really carries a long way. 900 yards will generally sound like 400 if it’s a straight shot. Clean tree dog that doesn’t jack, chew or run around the tree. Most of the time he is on all 4 feet or sometimes on his butt. I’ve been Coon hunting for around 45 years and more blue dogs than most have hunted with and he has the prettiest and most enjoyable mouth on him that I have ever heard. He isn’t a track straddler as he will circle out on his tracks to get them going. He would rather tree than track and has the ability to fall treed where other dogs don’t know there is a coon up. With that being said he doesn’t walk on water and I can see where the down side to that is that he will pull up sometimes but is easily corrected even at this age. I was told by a guy who hunted with Wesley that Mr Blue wasn’t a typical Echo dog in that he could bust out with a pack of dogs and fall treed 30 yards away with a coon the other dogs didn’t know was already up. I’ve seen him do this on limited hunting and not being sharp and hunted up so I know that is just natural for him. I was also told that with Wesley having Bodacious at the same time as when Mr Blue was young that Wesley had a hard time lleaving Bodacious on the kennel when mr Blue should have been getting alone time when he was young.

So that is what I know about Mr Blue in a nutshell. I’d like to have a whole kennel full just like him.

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John Smith
Ohio Valley Bluetick Kennel