Tim Green
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Burkburnett, TX
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Steve,
You had replied to an ad that I posted a week or so ago in regards to looking for a couple of females to breed and you commented that I had offered Battle for free and made reference that he is SS and Performanced. You said it was a poor incentive. I deleted it and reworded it because I thought maybe I did not clarify what my intent was. I will start by saying any person that goes to UKC hunt is crazy not to hunt a performance pup, especially if the pup is a decent hound because you have an opportunity to get a little back for your hard work of training. I will never in the rest of my life make enough money to cover what I have spent on coon hunting, so I am not going to try, but if I might get enough to buy one more bag of dog food or buy one gallon of gas...who knows.. I enjoy raising pups and will continue to do so. I get more pride out of hearing about my pups success. Just today I got an email from a young teenager informing me that her Battle pup won CH male at the Wisconsin Youth hunt. She was extremely happy. That may not sound like a lot to most, but to her it was like winning the world hunt. If it takes 100 pups to produce that one little bit of happiness, it was worth it. The funny thing is....that pup was free to her. It is a Super Staked and a Performance pup.
Battle will be 7 in Aug, I have had him since he was 14 months old and I have 83 pups out of him of which came from my personal females or my partners females over the years. I recently bred only the 2nd female that I have not owned. I make sure that my personal females have traits that I believe can better our breed, or I would not breed them. Battle may never produce enough NTCH or GRNTCH as most of those pups went to pleasure hunters, but at least I will have enough to make him eligible if he does. After your post, I called a guy that bought a female from me once and I am breeding her again and I just bought an X jr female to breed. Between these two, I think I will have what I set out for and after that I will only raise a few to fool with if Battle lives long enough.
I am in the Air Force, and have been for over 18 Years. I am getting ready to go to the desert again for 1 year and then headed to Alaska for 3 years after that. My coon hunting is getting ready to stop for at least 5 years. Battle is over at Jeff's house for awhile and then he will probably go back to Ray's in Wisconsin. It is a shame that he will not breed more females, but I really don't care. John Wick told me at Walker Days in April that I needed to do something with Battle because he could see intellegence in him that needed to be passed on.
I agree the mass producing pups is bad because so many do not get a chance. Honestly, this is how the big stud dog owners, and I do not consider myself one, but this is how they get a lot of pups out there and the more you have the more likely a few will show up in the big hunts and away they go......
When I am done traveling in a few months, I would like to bring Battle up to your house and go for a hunt. You commented on how nice his pedigree is, so I would like for you to see for yourself how nice of a hound he is and you tell me if he has something to offer the Walker breed.
Tim
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Tim Green
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